Thursday Art

     Hi everyone. I hope the new month is going well for you. I'm glad to report the hubby's back/ hip is on the mend. He called his doctor, and I went with him for his appointment. She gave him some muscle relaxers and as well as some steroids. Even though it's not a fast process, it looks like the cause is muscular which is better than if something had gone off with his spine. 👍

     Today I have some art for a couple of challenges to share. I'm front loading this month with some art posts because at the end of next week I'll be heading out on an adventure and I don't plan on posting much while gone. That is if the hubby's back continues to improve, but I'm thinking  positive. (And even the doctor thinks if it's muscular he should be good to go. 👍)

   I apologize for this first photo, or at least for how crooked it is. It's a page from my summer journal and the cardstock didn't quite like to stay flat with the media I added to it.

   This bubble page began with the 2 stickers in the bottom right corner. I loved the challenge of figuring out not only to make the bubbles but how to make them really seem like bubbles (versus just circles on the page).   I started by drawing and coloring in circles with a black marker and then using some Glossy Accents in the circles. Once that dried, I then added some pink glitter glue. Once that dried, I outlined the bubble with a white pen, and added a bit of blue glitter glue. Then I added a bit more pink, and let them dry for a day.

    I now needed to give the page some motion because of course bubbles like to float on the air currents. To do that I quickly brushed some light blue acrylic paint around the bubbles. Then I splattered the page with some dark blue watercolor paint. I was happy with the final look, (I think they look like bubbles), so I bordered the page with a white pen and used a very very old 7Gypsies clear stamps set to stamp the quotes.

 I'll be linking this page up to Mia's Background challenge at Art Journal Journey.

I also made a tag for this month's challenge at Tag Along (and ATCs too). Lynn has chosen this month's theme, and it is Things With Wings.

  I used a standard white tag and lightly inked the background with TH's Stormy Sky and Weathered Wood colors. I then took an image from an Alison Bomber/ Paper Artsy stamp set and stamped it multiple times on my tag. I used markers to color in  those images. I added the tiny butterflies then using orange Versafine Claire ink. The butterfly image comes from one of my first stamp sets. These mini butterflies are from an old, old set by Hero Arts that had 4 various tiny butterflies. It's one of my most used and actually quite loved sets of stamps. If I could only save a few of my stamps, these butterflies would have to be in that collection.

 I used a brown marker and added a few dots on the butterflies I stamped because they looked like they needed something. Finally I took a quote from a TH quote stamp set and added that. 

   That's all for me this post. Thanks for stopping by.