Christmas Carols

Hi everyone. Happy Thursday to you.

I hope everyone is having a lovely week.  I thought/hoped I would have a week with nothing going on, but that didn't last beyond Monday night. That's when my walking friend asked if I wanted to walk with her on Tuesday. I could have said no, but it's hard to say no to having someone to walk with. Plus, there really isn't any reason not to go. Life is short, and  my upstairs cleaning projects aren’t  going any place. 😏

My art today for Wendy's challenge at  Art Journal Journey is the front and the back of one of my Christmas alphabet book pages. Wendy's AJJ's challenge this month is Above Us Only Sky.

I won't keep reshowing the old phone number directory that my alphabet book pages come from, but just in case you didn't see this photo last week, I will share it one more time. Otherwise the shape of my page might be confusing.  Last summer I salvaged an old telephone directory from my mother-in-law's house. It was going into the trash, and I thought I could use it for some art.

As I've mentioned, I had hoped to make art using the metal covers, but sadly, that didn't work. Instead, I'm snipping out the pages and making art on them. Today's art is the front and back of the letter C in my alphabet book. (Here's a link to the original post and the letter B art if you're interested: Traditional Christmas. And no, I haven't shown the letter A yet.)

C stands for Christmas Carols

Here's the front.

I used the moon because I always think of Christmas carols on Christmas Eve. I think it's because when I was little my parents used to always play Christmas music on their big old fashioned stereo console on Christmas Eve. At the time I didn't appreciate all their old fashioned style of music, but now, those old Perry Como, Bing Crosby, and other  crooners from my parents' generation are some of my favorites. 

The page background is inked and then I used a white music rub on over the bottom half. Along the top I added some washi tape. The tape covered where I cut the page to remove it from the metal directory. The moon and stars are a TH die cut that I inked and painted. The stars have a bit of glitter glue also. Finally I stamped and fussy cut the quote and added a die cut letter C.

And here's the backside.

I used some Christmas music paper to cover the entire page. Some of the images were already on this paper. The owl  is a stamp by Lynne Perrella, and the wreath around it,  as well as the pine cones, are fussy cut from an image book. Then I stamped  the designs above and below the wreath, and finally I added an old sticky button with some music on it.

The big moon should work for Wendy's challenge, but even if it doesn't, the owl image definitely does.

Today I have to fight the urge to make art and get my upstairs picked up. Hee hee. Until next post.