Friday Art

 Hi everyone. Happy Friday to you. 

I'm posting  3 journal pages today to link up to Nicole's Friday Face Off ,Gillena's Friday Lunch Break  and also Chris' Where in the World challenge at Art Journal Journey. 

I made these pages to go into my Charleston (South Carolina) travel journal. You might remember I traveled there with a friend back in May.

These 3 pages are about my visit to Magnolia Gardens and the Audubon swamp located there. I shared a few photos from that visit in some earlier posts.

When I travel I like to pick up bits and pieces to create with. My friend that I traveled with is one of the few people (not including some of my blogosphere friends) who is also into collecting bits and pieces during a trip. One thing we both had fun doing that weekend  was collecting items. 😁

You can see  on this first page that I used the front of a brochure plus our ticket to get in the locked gate of the Audubon swamp. The ticket is only attached on the left, so you can actually pull it up to see the full image behind it.

The lady in these first 2 pages is from a collection of TH people images you can buy. I love how different sizes are included in the package, so I was able to use the same lady on both of these first 2 pages. I think she looks very Antebellum to fit the theme of those pages. And she makes a great face for Nicole's challenge this week.

I wish they had left the chair behind her though, as one of her arms looks  a little strange. But it is what it is. 

On this second page I used a bit of Spanish Moss that I picked up while walking, and I made the top piece of the page cutting out the border from  a tourist magazine. Then I used some other ephemera I had including a printed transparency as well as some printed images.

These guys have great faces too.

At Magnolia Plantation we saw A LOT of alligators, so I needed to make a page about them. I had picked up a gator postcard specifically for this book, but  when I got home I decided I didn't like the way the alligator looked. I have an old Technique Tuesday alligator and die cut set, and I really like these gators. I cut the top off the postcard to use as the title of my page. The info is from the tourist info booklet I picked up. The background is made with washi tape and some inked edges, and finally I stamped and die cut several happy gators. I gave them some details like the eyes and the teeth, and after they were glued down, I stamped the quotes which are from the same stamp set. 

You might remember some of the alligator photos I shared, especially this guy who walked out in front of me. 😨

Have a great Friday and start to your weekend.