Weekend Art

 Hi everyone. Happy weekend. Our weekend looks like it could be some sun and some rain, so I think it might be a putter and poke around the house weekend. (And you never know what else. )❤

     Today I wanted to share some art. I have a page for Jo's Wonderfully Wild theme at Art Journal Journey, and I also have a tag for Valerie's Summer Holiday theme at Tag Tuesday. I am linking this post up to Gillena’s Sunday Smiles  also. First, here's my page for AJJ.

     My "wild" idea for this page was the rainforest/ jungle. I wanted to create a page that felt thick and lush with foliage like you'd find in such a place. My background is a collection of some stamped images that I then mostly covered over with some gesso and ink. I then fussy cut some leaves and tropical flowers as well as die cutting the big green tropical palm leaves. 

     Mama tiger and her babies are stamped images that have been fussy cut. I needed  to add a focal point, and besides, we all know there is a myriad of life in the rainforest jungle. So why not this tiger family? I tucked part of Mama behind the leaves just to enhance the lush  feeling. I added a paper frame to make her stand out, and then I added the kittens and the metal tag. I used stickers to create the phrase and a TH sticker phrase below it.

     My tag for Valerie's Summer Holiday challenge is all about another environment, the Beach. I took a standard tag that I inked blue and added a die cut shaped tag to it. The starfish are embossed and then fussy cut, and the seagulls are die cut. The waves at the bottom are left over pieces from some die cut waves that I used in my Greece journal. Finally I added an actual sand dollar from a small stash I have, and I used a quote from an old stamp set on the tag.

That's all for me today. Have a super weekend!