Hi everyone. Happy March. It's time to think about spring, right? Or maybe fall if you live south of the equator. Today is the meteorological start of a new season either place. 😀
It's the new month so it's time for a new challenge at Art Journal Journey Before I move onto that, I want to first once again thank Vicki for hosting last month. You did a fabulous job and had a great theme. Thank you everyone who joined in also. There were so many great musical ideas last month. ❤ I really enjoyed the theme and had a lot of fun making pages.
For the new month we have a new theme and a new host. This month I am hosting and my theme is
Home Sweet Home
There are lots of ways you can approach this theme. You can journal about your own home, but there are also many types of homes. You can see a few of them in my first journal spread. You can also think about things inside a home or even what makes a home, any home. And since home is found in words like hometown or a computer home page, you can think bigger for your creations. And don't be afraid to step outside of your home if you have a garden or a patio or porch. The outside is as much of your home as the inside is. Just have your journal page relate somehow to the idea of the word home.
For my first page I wanted to incorporate spring and some other types of homes rather than a building made for human habitation. I'm trying not to buy a lot for new supplies this year, but Dina Wakely came out with these ledger journals, and I thought they were really interesting so I picked one up online. I left the background as it was, but I painted this big old tree. At some point in the past I had picked up a bag of flower shaped sequins, and I decided what better way to show spring but to have the tree in bloom. It did take quite a while to glue down all the sequins though.😏
I also painted in the grass, the bird's nest and the beehive. The bird house is stamped, as are the home quotes and the baby owlets. I also used some printed images like the chipmunk and flowers.
Please just remember the "dreaded rules" which basically means AJJ only accepts journaling. Any kind of journaling works. But please NO cards, tags, ATC's etc. unless they are part of a journal page.
I'm looking forward to your creations and seeing how you interpret my challenge.
