Year of the Dragon

Hi everyone. Happy weekend to you. 

This last half of the week I had a lot of home time, which means I've had a lot of very productive art time. Except for the fact that I couldn't find a few things I wanted to use, but  I guess that's  what happens when you clean 😉.  I've gotten all caught up for January and even was able to get a bit of a start in February's challenges. Today we're off to a funeral  for my husband's uncle, and then tomorrow I'm off with a girlfriend for a couple of days of play. Luckily we'll be out of town before the snow hits, I HOPE.

Today I have one more page for my January calendar challenge at Art Journal Journey. This time I'm jumping ahead on the calendar to February 10th which is when the Asian/Chinese New Year celebrations occur.  2024 is the year of the Dragon. 

I used mostly red and gold. Red is supposed to be a lucky color and brings happiness, passion and good luck. Gold is also supposed to also be a lucky color and brings glory, prosperity and good fortune. 

I had a small sheet of printed paper. I die cut the frame and the dragon. I also used some stickers, and the big numbers at the bottom look much better in the photo than they do on the sticker sheet. 😏 I also used some paint, ink, gold washi tape, and metallic stars, and  the Asian postage stamped image. I finished my page with the small gold "buttons" on the corners and used a pen to outline my page.

This page was a lot of fun to make. Some pages photograph better than they look, and some pages look better in person, which is true for this one. Gold and red are hard to photograph and get the true tone. But I do think my page is very celebratory. 

That's all for me today.  Have a great weekend and start to the week ahead.