Art in Brown

Hi everyone. Happy Thursday.

August is winding down very quickly. I would have been back to school for a week now if I was still teaching. It's weird, but I still get  back to school thoughts and slight moments of anxiety  come late August. I'm starting year 5 of retirement so you would think I'd be past all that. 😕 I guess after 36 years in the classroom it's so ingrained in my head that it's going to take awhile before I get to the point where I don't  have any back to school moments. If that ever happens.

Today I want to share my final page for Jo's Wonderfully Wild challenge at Art Journal Journey. Thank you Jo for a great month.  This was a great theme, and I liked how wild could be about so many different things.  I also want to thank everyone who joined Jo for this challenge. 

Keep in mind it is only the 29th of the month, so you still have a few days left to join.

For my final journal page I went with one that really feels really wild to me.

     I started by attaching an 8x8 inch piece of paper down in my journal. I knew I needed to cover the edges around the paper, and I wanted something that looked more natural so I used some paper bag scraps as well as some handmade paper scraps.

     The  image at the  bottom of my page is made using 3 different dies with black paper and also a piece of yellow paper. You can decide whether you want this to be  sunrise or sunset. The bear with his surrounding  background (Frantic Stamper) actually had a frame around the top, but I cut it off. The sun and the hill (by Hero Arts)  is another die cut, and finally I used the tree perspective die cut (Tim Holtz) to tie the whole combination of images together. I finished the page by stamping 3 quotes from an old Technique Tuesday stamp set.

    I also want to squeeze in one more tag for Pinky's Seashore challenge at Tag Tuesday. I went vintage with this one.

     I used some watercolor paints on the background, and then stamped the seahorse, sea star and the postmark onto the tag.  I added a bit of torn washi tape. Finally I finished with the bathing beauty and the quote. All the stamps come from another old set  put out by T.J. Designs rubber stamps. You might remember them.  Here's a photo of the set I found online. I think most of the companies  I remember from when I started stamping have gone. It's sad, but then there's some fun new ones around too.

That's all for me. Have a great rest of your day.