Weekend Art

Hi everyone. Happy second half of the weekend to you. Today is my 35th wedding anniversary. I don't think we'll be doing much  to celebrate today, but yesterday we went on an  adventure in the White Mountains that are a little over an hour north from where I live. We had a nice day out, and the foliage was still full of beautiful color. It's fun to play tourists in your own area sometimes. I'll have more to share about that outing in another post.

Today I have a page for Neet's In Gear challenge at Art Journal Journey. and one more tag for Valerie's Colour's of Autumn challenge at Tag Tuesday. I am linking my whole post up to Gillena's  Sunday Smiles   also. 

First, here's a page for Neet's In Gear challenge. 

My page began by using this giant embossing folder from Cheery Lynn Designs.  I actually had to cut it down to fit my 5.5x8 inch page. I have a couple of these old metal embossing pieces, and it's great to pull one out and actually use it.  (It's one of my long term goals; to either use those things that are just sitting there or else clean them out.) 😀 I embossed these gears and screws on some brown kraft paper, and then I rubbed  some black ink onto my page to bring out the embossed images better.  

The car is cut out of an old book, as is the title for my page. I used a TH person, an old cigar label, some white paint pen dots, as well as some small copper washers. Oh yes, and I bordered my page with some thin washi tape before I glued anything down. 

I think Mr. Brown (as I think of this man) and his dog Kirby will be going for a ride in his new posh automobile, don't you? I hope Kirby doesn't shed the way my 2 dogs do or else his new car will be filled with a lot of dog hair. Grin. Perhaps Mr. Brown has someone who can clean the car for him, since he must have a big bank account  to afford such a beautiful automobile.

Now if only I had someone who would vacuum Maddie and Pete's hair out of my car, life would be perfect. Ha ha.

And here's  my tag for Valerie's  the Colour's of Autumn challenge at Tag Tuesday.

I started by stamping a large card background image with flying leaves. Then I inked my tag to color the background.  I added a left over die cut oval, a TH woman image, some glitter foam leaves and some little pieces of confetti.  The 3 background quotes were stamped once the tag's background was complete. I did outline them in white pen to make them stand out more.  And I created the small quote bubble.

You can see the quote words  better up close. They say "Rake, Pile Jump". And the quote in the word bubble says "Let me change my clothes and join you." 

I remember jumping in leaf piles when I was little. My grandmother was  good at raking piles especially so we could jump into them. 😀

And finally, here's a few more random photos from when I visited my local botanical garden a week and a half ago. It was warm that day, and now the autumn chill is here.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend or start to the new week, depending on when you read this.