Hi everyone. I hope your weekend is going well. This weekend we've been having a mixed bag of weather at my house: snow, sleet, freezing rain, rain. I'm scheduling this post, AND hopefully since yesterday (when I wrote this)we won't have gotten too much ice and lost our power.
Today I want to share my last page for my Home Sweet Home challenge over at Art Journal Journey. I'm also linking up to Sunday Smiles over at Gillena's blog.
I want to thank everyone who joined me this month over at AJJ. I enjoyed seeing everyone's take on the challenge, and there were definitely some fantastic ideas. ❤❤❤
Today's journal page is also my favorite page that I made for my challenge. Not that my other pages were by any means terrible pages, but one thing I have been wanting to play around with is more scenery collage, and I'm very happy with the view I created in the window frame.
The window view is made by collaging some various papers, some plain, some printed and some painted by me. The 3 little houses are stamped and fussy cut. I also used some plaint drops to create the idea of trees, and I painted in some clouds in the sky.
The window frame is from 49 and Market. I stamped the lady reading on the lounger as well as the plant besides her, and then I cut them out. I also stamped the quote. The stamped images are from Hero Arts. I added a few potted plants that I fussy cut from some paper also.
I'm a bit ahead of myself because before I added the images outside of the window, I used some yellow water color paint and made some squiggly lines to fill the background. They could represent sunlight streaming in, a bad paint job or even a very abstract view of some light wood. Whatever they are, I like how they color the background.
To wrap up this post, I decided to snap some photos (through my car's windshield) as I went through the car wash the other day. They're not in any order, and they're just different from the usual. But the stripes that form the washing clothes (I don't even know if they have a name) made me think of my journal page today with the wiggly striped background. Plus I was washing away the dirt of March from my car, so I was wrapping up the month that way too. 😏 Smirk.
Have a great rest of your weekend and start to the new week.
13 comments:
Good morning cool photos sorry for all that winter in your area Happy new week hugs
o...that looks cold! The weather has been really nice over here...warm, without rain...and if we get lucky, some sunshine!
Maybe you have the basis for a whole new art form here, Erika. Abstract carwashism! Move over Andy Warhol. All the best - David
...Ekira, I wish you an Awesome April.
WE have pretty much the same weather as you right now. While I am ready for spring, the icing does make for some incredible photos!
Lovely page! Freezing rain here too. -Christine cmlk79.blogspot.com
Stay safe with the ice and dream of the view outside that window. Hey, is that one of those bird feeders that identify birds? Do you like it?
I've had enough of our stormy weather here, but your weather is even worse.
Your journal page is a great idea, the view!
Yes, I also thought it was an abstract work of art at first and had to laugh when I read further that it was your car being cleaned.
I wish you and your husband a good April, hugs Elke
Oh-oh - that looks cold, dear Erika! So you're still experiencing low temperatures... They've climbed from freezing to more pleasant temperatures here, but we've had some rain (which was good after months of drought).
I like the view from your window - and I think everyone should have their own private sanctuary. And I also think your car wash shots are brilliant! Our car is still covered in March dirt ;-)
All the best, Traude
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PS: You asked if I or we liked A Complete Unknown, and I don't know if I've already answered that - in any case, YES, we really liked the film.
Some nice ones. Thanks for linking to SundaySmiles
Much♡love
Ice photos are amazing.
I just LOVE the car wash photos! We're trying to find out if the ice storm that hit at the lake this weekend brought down any trees on the house or property. Hoping not -- it was a biggie. Love your art page today. Wonderful.
Lovely page and photos...yes, the ice storm.
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