Iceland

Hi everyone. Happy middle of the week. I hope your week is going well.

Today I have a page for Chris' Where in the World challenge at Art Journal Journey and I also have a few Iceland photos to share.

I've started filling in pages in an Iceland travel journal I made.  I haven't finished the cover yet, but here's what I've done so far. (And the tape on the left is not that crooked, it's the angle I took the photo.)

I'm not sure what I'll do to finish the cover, but you will probably see it once I finish it.

My page for AJJ today is the inside cover page.

I had this 8x8 piece of map paper. And because it's the arctic, Iceland just happened to be on it. 👍 I added a scrap of tan paper to the top to finish covering my base page.  Then I rubbed an ink pad over parts of my page. I recently picked up a couple of the new Lisa Horton Interference ink pads. They ink one color on light paper and another on dark paper. 

You can see how the ink is green on the tan paper and blue on the lighter map paper.

The tab on the right side is from my boarding pass which I laid horizontally across the back side of this paper.

I added several items from a brochure I picked up on last month's trip to the  Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. Those items include the cut out troll, the lines of circles and the title of my page. I stamped the circles that are directly on the background paper, the big circle around the island of Iceland as well as the little plane flying there. And I die cut the black arrow.

Trolls, little folks and fairies are all part of Iceland's history. I've even read that a lot of people still believe they live on the island.  I'm glad I had this brochure image and title words because they work so well in this journal, even if I didn't see them in Iceland.

 I've shared some photos from across the south of Iceland and also along the Eastern Fjords. Now we're going to be heading into the Northeast part of the country, into a section of Iceland where the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is active. Wherever the mid-Atlantic Ridge crosses the island, you have lots of volcanoes and lava fields.

I just love how you travel a few hundred kilometers and the scenery changes so drastically.

Sorry for the dark photos, but it was quite overcast that day. If I lightened them up, then the atmosphere we experienced changed too much. 

Next stop is a couple of waterfalls, but I'll save them for another post. I still have a lot more photos, and I'm sharing them as I go through them. 

Thanks so much for visiting my blog.