Sunny Skies

      Hi everyone. It's Thursday, and I hope you're having a super last week of August. 

      Yesterday morning I had my coldest start at the lake as   it was only 46 degrees F/ just under 8 degrees C.Brrr    Iris you asked if I was sad the job was ending, and as much as I enjoyed the job, with getting so chilly, I’ll be glad not to have to sit outside waiting for boats to arrive. Especially if there’s no sun to keep me warm.😏

     As I mentioned yesterday I have a few art  journal pages that I am trying to share before this month wraps up. Here is another one that I will be linking up to Chris' Hot August (Night and Day) at Art Journal Journey.

   This page in my summer journal is made on yellow cardstock, and when I cut it down to fit the journal, I had some scraps with I lightly wiped with a golden yellow ink pad. I decided to use those scraps and cut some strips which I wove and then glued down on my background. I like the texture that it makes. The strips weren't long enough to cover the entire background, so I added some bright blue sky metallic paper trim along the edge where the weaving ended.

   This isn't a very complicated page either. (Who wants to be complicated in the summer? Right?)  I die cut the circle with the Fun in the Sun quote. I used a very old die from my scrapbooking days to make that. Then I used a paint pen and painted the blue edge of the circle quote and added sun rays coming off the circle. Once the paint dried I added some golden glitter glue. 

     I finished by die cutting the glasses, and I left the "glass" inset parts black to make them sunglasses. I then put a bit of glue on the "glass" parts to make the paper have a slight glassy sheen.

   Speaking of sunshine, I seem to have seen and taken photos of some beautiful sky views lately, so let me share a few here. I'll start with a sunset view the night before my niece's wedding, and then just a beautiful day sun view through the trees.

The other morning (Monday) when I was working at the lake,  the clouds and the sun sun were putting on a gorgeous show for me.

A mackerel sky is so photogenic. 

Have a great rest of your day!