Thursday Holiday Art

 Hi everyone.

  It’s another Thursday, and I’m here with another journal page for Wendy’s  Above Us Only Sky  at Art Journal Journey.

Here is the back of the letter D page  my alphabet/ old phone directory Christmas journal. D in this case stands for December, deer, daybreak, and what looks like  will be a beautiful day.

I am still so impressed at how well this old paper is holding up to all the media I put on it.   It is way better than the paper in many of my modern journals. 😏This time I used grey watercolor paints for the sky, yellow watercolor paint and yellow glitter glue for the sun, and white paint for the snowy ground. Since it's still not bright outside at daybreak, I washed the white snow with a bit of grey and yellow watercolor paints.

I drew in the landscape with a Sharpie, colored the trees with some markers and used a white pen to add some snowy boughs to them. I then added the acetate frame. The deer is a die cut made with some thick brown paper. I used a bit of brown marker (dotting it) to give the fur some depth, and I used a white Posca paint pen as a black Stabilo pencil to create the tail. The blue ornament at the top is from a punch out image book. Finally I added some sparkle tape along the top to cover the holes from where I pulled the page out of the old phone number directory. I stitched across it to add a little more texture.

Finally I thought the sky needed a bit of morning sparkle, so I added a few dots of silver glitter glue, and I cut the December word out of a stamped quote and added it to my page.

And here’s the flip side of the letter D, which also has a bit of sky related design.

I used some watercolor paint and some white acrylic paint. Then I added the acetate frame, the Lynne Perrella stamped image, a die cut star as well as a bit of felt reindeer trim. The quote is stamped, and to cover the holes along the top, I used some sparkle tape and then I added a bit of stitching. 

It's a chilly day in New Hampshire before a weekend warm up, Our snow has been gone for a bit, and I'm wondering if we'll have a white Christmas. Unless there is a storm next week, I'd say not.  We shall see.

Thanks for stopping by and have a lovely day or evening depending on when you visit.