Blue Skies and Sunshine

 Hi everyone. It's already getting into the  second half of the week. I hope your week is going well.  

Today I have a journal page and a tag for a couple of challenges.

First here's my page for Vicki's challenge at Art Journal Journey. You probably know by the now her theme is Keeping It Light.

My page started with this scrap of packaging that you see on the left. I liked the image too much to throw it out, but I was a little stuck about what to do with it.

Before I attached it to my journal page I painted my background blue. The background on the packaging was white, so I used some blue paint glaze over my whole  page hoping it would pull the 2 parts together. The glaze colored the packaging nicely, but the rest of the page was still too blue. To fix that I used my favorite  color fading trick. I sponged a bit of gesso over the dark blue.

I then stamped my favorite cow image. She has such a  sweet face; I just love her. I actually stamped the image twice, once on the page and once on acetate. I added the acetate image over the other image because doing that really makes the image pop more. 

I die cut some small butterflies and flowers. I inked them for color. I added them, along with some  confetti foam circles to the packaging design. I also added a metallic paper sun, and I colored in a few of the details. Finally I used an old stamp set for my quote.

I also have a tag today for Sandie's Asemic Writing challenge at Tag Tuesday.

I don't know if you can see the turtles in the water. 

I originally had asemic writing on all of the tag, and it made me think of water.  I thought turtles in the water was a great idea, but then they didn't look right being on the water.   I tried using a narrow tipped paint bottle to write  over the turtles,  and that just looked weird and not like the ocean, so I added some darker blue paint. This is how my tag ended up when I was finally (mostly) happy with it. I just wish the quote was smaller in size, but it fit the boat on my tag so well that I decided the heck with it and used it.

I had an early morning commitment yesterday morning, and I also have one for each of the next couple of days.  However, Wednesday's appointment ended up with my husband being admitted to the hospital. He had some pneumonia in part of his lungs, and since he's immune suppressed, they wanted him to go in  for observations.  At least he doesn't have covid, because that test came back negative. I'm hoping when I hear from him this morning he'll be doing better and able to get home.  So please excuse me if I don't/ didn't get by your blog.

That's all for me today.