Hello February

 Hi everyone. Happy new month to you. 

      Before I move on to introduce our new Art Journal Journey host for February, first let me thank Mia for having been our January host. As you can see from today's page that my dotty stencil was still sitting on my work table. However, I want to assure you that  this isn't a left over page from January. And thank you everyone who shared dotty pages too. It was fun playing with dots, wasn't it? (In fact so much fun, I'm still playing with them. 😏)

     This month Bleuebeard, Elizabeth, Mia and myself want to welcome the talented Vicki who you probably know from her blog Stamped Smiles. I'm glad Vicki wanted to come back and join us as another month's host, and she's picked a great theme too. For February, it's all about  MUSIC.

     We've had a few challenges in the past about specific songs, but I am excited for the broader topic of Music. I have several music themed stamps that I haven't used in a long time (as you can see on my page today) that I am excited to have a  reason to use. 

     I decided I wanted some bright and cheery colors to celebrate the new month (even though winter isn't over, the darkest days of it are and we are also just about half way to spring  too). I decided to go with pink and orange. To create the energy of music I added the pink painted curves across the background.  I also added a small piece of music printed tissue paper.

      The cassette tapes and  the playlist quote are from a couple of old Technique Tuesday sets. I stamped the cassette tape several times as well as coloring and fussy cutting them out.  The musical clefts and notes are from a single big die. And since there was a butterfly on the musical tissue paper, I decided to add a few images of them to my page. They are from an AALL& Create set of uncolored butterflies.  The way that butterflies flitter does remind me of the way musical notes move in certain music pieces, though as far as I know no composer has ever used a butterfly as inspiration for a particular song. But if you know of one... grin.

   Please remember that AJJ is all about journaling and NOT about card making. It's not that we don't love cards and card making either, but please limit your link ups to journal pages of any kind.  Hopefully you're as excited about music as we admins are, and I know I'm looking forward to see what people do with that theme.

   Have a great weekend and start to the new month also.