First Loves

 Hi everyone.  Can you believe we are in the middle of the month already?

I'm leaving this afternoon for a couple of days away with my walking friend, but I wanted to share another page for Chris' When We  Were Young challenge  at Art Journal Journey before I leave. 

I call this page First Love. I think it's great how Elizabeth had the same idea for a page and posted it this past  Saturday. 

Back when I was cleaning my bin of stencils out, I came across one from Dylusions that I had never opened and forgot I even had. OK, I guess I have way too many stencils, but I took this one out and set it aside as it was perfect for Chris' topic this month. 

Instead of using the stencil, for this page I used the masks from when you popped the images out of the stencil. I put them down on my white watercolor paper and used some various shades of purple paint around them. Once the paint dried I used a Stabilo pencil to smooth out the edges of the masked children, and then I also used a wet brush to give me that fuzzy black edge.

I masked over the children again to use a couple of stamps and some purple and black ink to add some details to my background. The love word is also a stamp which I cut out and then added to my page. I added the black border to it with a Sharpie. 

I used the same stencil set to copy the red balloon onto some white paper. I painted the balloon, cut it out and added it to my page. The last thing I did was use a few of those little foam shaker card elements on each of the children.

I remember when I was young I had my first crush on the boy from across the street named Timmy. Sadly, he moved away very shortly after I developed my crush, and who knows what ever happened to him. Of course I had lots of crushes after him,  that is until I met my husband when I was in college. He's been my long term crush ever since. Grin.

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