Last Art Journal Pages for 2025

    Hi everyone.  It's countdown mode to 2026 at this point. And I remember when it was countdown to the new millennium, and now, we're almost 26 years into it. 

    Today I want to share a few holiday pages I made and haven't yet posted. I'll be linking  them up to Sharon's Winter theme over at Art Journal Journey

    Thank you Sharon for hosting during this busy month. You picked another awesome theme and inspired us all with your wonderful art. I also want to thank everyone who joined Sharon so far this month. There's still a little more time to join in before this challenge ends on the 31st. 😏

     I  just loved this paper from Ciao Bella that makes up the background and the main image on my page. I had to ask myself what to do to actually make this page my own?

    I used a stencil and a Sharpie to make a few postmark lines, and then I stamped a few phrases. I had this interesting scrap from a die cut sitting on my work table that I added to the bottom.

    

   This gingerbread paper was actually in a package, and I saved it because I thought it would have some future use. I covered my page with a bit of it. Then I die cut (using the very old TH gingerbread die) the gingerbread man from some tan striped paper. I thought at first the tan colored paper would work for a piece of gingerbread, but it was too light and didn't look like baked gingerbread. To fix that I inked it, and then to tie that color into my background I rubbed just a bit of the same ink on my background. I highlighted the gingerbread man with my Sharpie and a white Posca pen. The potholder, bow and scarf actually came from a  Creative Expressions gingerbread stamp set. I stamped and fussy cut them, colored them in and then added those pieces. I finished my page by drawing in the rest of the cookie's details as well as  stamping a quote from the Creative Expressions Gingerbread set that the scarf, etc. came from.

   My final holiday page has an old photo that was in a paper magazine (one of those booklets of paper "items" I found on the magazine rack at Barnes and Nobel). I used that image for my background. It didn't quite fill the page, so I used some blue and white cloth trim to fill in the top and bottom edges. I then added the colored image (from an AALL& Create package) and die the words. 

  Thanks everyone for all your kind comments that made 2025 a great year of art journaling for me. ❤  I'm hoping to try some new techniques in 2026.  And hoping to finish a few projects too.  

   Have a great rest of your year if I don't post between now and the start of 2026.