On The Savanna

 Hi everyone. Happy weekend. I hope yours is going well. At my house we've  had and have a lot of clouds, which is not making me very motivated-grin. 

      I'm back today with a new journal page.  This time we're going to the African savanna where a few curious wild animals are taking a look at us.  I'm linking my page up to Jo's Wonderfully Wild challenge at Art Journal Journey. I'm also linking up to Gillena's Sunday Smiiles.

     This page in my Dina Wakely journal had a bit of grit, so when I rubbed yellow and red ink pages over it I got that cool textured look. To finish coloring the background, I used watercolor paints.  I used some acrylic paint to paint the sun, and once that dried I added some yellow glitter glue to it to give it some energy.

     All of the animals are stamped and fussy cut. I used markers to do some coloring. I thought the zebra needed something so I stuck the funny bird on his back. I also thought the zebra needed to be in the grass since that's what they eat, so I stamped this swirly stamp that reminded me of grass. I stamped it on acetate a couple of times with Staz On, and then I sort of fussy cut the pieces and layered them pieces to make it thick like layers of grass on a savanna would be like.  I would have preferred to make the grass green or brown instead of black, but black is the only color of Staz On I have right now.

     Finally I stamped the words from an old set by Technique Tuesday. And for some reason after stamping the words, I thought the ostrich needed a bow, and the bow does work great on her long neck.

      We also had some good news this past week about Miss Maddie too. I think the specialist has finally got her blood glucose levels under control. Hurrah! We've been playing around with insulin levels since January, and she's since gone blind (which doesn't seem to bother her one bit), but now she's definitely acting more like the Maddie we know and love. 👍

     That's all for me in this post. Enjoy what's left of your weekend, and the happy start of the new week also.