Weekend Art

 Happy weekend everyone. I hope you are enjoying yours.

This past week, besides dealing with covid, it's been a busy weather week. We had snow, rain, slush, and now we're right back a wet mess again. 

The other day I had a wintery art journal page celebrating January. Today I'm celebrating the summer season, for those of you who prefer it. Or are ready for it. Or maybe even in it right now. 

This is my latest page for the It's On The Calendar challenge at Art Journal Journey.

I started by using paint and inks to color my background. Then I stamped a big tree image in the center of my page. I  die cut some leaves using green paper. I inked the leaves a bit with a darker green color to really bring out the embossed pattern in the die.

After my leaves were attached, I added this large circular acetate frame. The bottom of the frame had some lovely summer flowers printed on it, and I thought that pattern worked well around the tree. I also thought I'd add a TH woman because someone should be out enjoying that beautiful day.  

And to add a bit of more of summer, you can see the blue felt butterfly that I decorated with some details. I finished off this page with a marker drawn frame and a bit of stamping. 

I'm also excited to finally be back making art. I created a tag for Pinky's Something New theme at Tag Tuesday. 

I tried something new by layering 3 different sized tags. While recently cleaning I came across the mini blue tag. I used ink pads to color my other 2 tags so they would coordinate with the blue tag. Then I outlined each tag with a gold Sharpie. 

I glued the tags together, and then used the number background stamp in a few random spots.  After that I glued down the 5 women, who I like to think of as some of those early computers-women who did all the calculations for men in some industries like aerospace.  (They should have been allowed to be in that industry, but that's another story.) 

To celebrate them, I took a piece of paper printed with some gold outlined roses. I fussy cut out some roses and added them to my page. Finally I took a TH quote sticker and added it to my tag.

I am also linking up to GIllena's Sunday Smiles. 

There you have it. I hope you have a super weekend.