September

     Hi everyone.  Happy September. This year is flying by, and we’re now in meteorological fall with the actual season coming in a few weeks. Plus I have only 1 day left of my summer job at the lake. I don't know about you, but I’m wondering what happened to the first 8 months of this year. Grin.

     The new month means a new challenge at Art Journal Journey. First let me once again thank Jo for hosting. It was a great theme, and I enjoyed everyone’s take on wild. ❤ Plus I had a lot of fun myself. My art was almost the most wild thing about last month - ha ha. 🤪

     For this new month, I want to welcome back Aimeslee. You might know her from her blog Paper Paisleys Art Adventures Blog. She joined us last year for the first time, and we’re glad she wanted to be back  this year as a host.  This month I think everyone will like Aimeslee’s challenge which is

ANYTHING GOES

     For my first entry, I want to share a spread from a journal that I’ve been working on for awhile now. It’s all about gardens, harvests and even a bit of down on the farm.I'be been having so much fun making it I even added an extra signature of pages to it.😀 Although I’m not finished yet, let me first share the cover as it is right now, and then I’ll share my 2 page spread. 

I started with an old cookbook  that I removed the pages and the spine from. I liked some of the already-on- the-cover art, so after adding a bit of gesso, I sponged on some blue and yellow paints on the parts I didn't want to keep. I liked the "handwritten" word and also the edges of the recipe cards that were printed on the book's cover, so I left those showing.  Then I added an old copy of a photo and  white stacked frames around it. I also added the little garden plant marker (that I darkened a bit) and the canning jar label.  The photo, the label and the plant marker were in my stash and were part of a garden ephemera set I bought off of Etsy several years back when I first thought about making this project. (Yes it’s taken me a while to get around to it. 👍)

And here's my first page for September's  Anything Goes AJJ challenge.

     Instead of doing anything to the background, I left it plain. I layered some old seed packets, a tag and some bits of paper. I stamped a tractor on some acetate and put it over one of the seed packets.  I also stamped, colored and fussy cut the 2 chickens.  The beans label was cut out of a sheet of paper, the sun is a piece of chipboard, and the acetate flowers were in my stash. I stamped the little chicken feet around the bottom of my page, and I also made a tag (which I'll show some other time) to slide into the right hand seed packet. The last thing I did was stamp the words Farm Fresh at the top of the right hand page. 

   Before I wrap up my post I also need to mention the dreaded rules. At AJJ we only accept art journaling, but the form of art journaling is up to you. No tags, cards, ATC's and other art forms please. 

     I hope you're as excited as I am for Aimeslee's Anything Goes challenge, and I also hope you'll join us at AJJ.   Have a great start to September too.

     And I'm not forgetting about the fact that it's Sunday Smiles  at Gillena's blog either.  I'll also be linking this post up there.