Weekend Post

    Hi everyone. Happy second half of the weekend to you. Today I have an art journal page for Sharon's Winter theme over at Art Journal Journey. I also have a few photos. I'll  be linking  up to Gillena's Sunday Smiles.

  But before I forget,  let me wish everyone who celebrates a very Happy Hanukkah.

    Here's my journal page.

    I started my page by tearing up and gluing down some various scraps of paper. After several different background attempts, I ended up using white gesso and a paper towel to make the background white with just a hint of the paper showing through.

   The big ornament in the middle started as a blank red ornament. Last year I found this package of these colored blank ornaments for like 25 cents after the holiday. I glued this one on my page and then cut the scene out from a sheet of paper. After gluing the scene down, I outlined the ornament with a black Sharpie and then used a gold marker to color in the ornament top, color in around the scene and put some gold dots around the scene. I also use a white paint pen to add a few white dots to the gold. 

   The 2 bigger stars were cut out of paper. I outlined them with black Sharpie and also with a gold paint pen Then I filled the centers with red glitter. The small stars are punched out of some gold paper. The truck is an old holiday gift tag (if you pulled it off the page and looked on the back you can see who it was to and from). Then I stamped  the word December at the bottom,  and added a few small word stickers.

   I was out in Portsmouth, New Hampshire the other day, and here's a few holiday views I took photos of.

And I loved these dogs in a toy shop window. 

    This next toy dog looked like Pete, but the light wasn't very good when I snapped this photo. (You can tell by the reflection.)

   If it wasn't so cold I would have taken more photos, but it was too chilly to keep taking my gloves off. 😏

   Have a super rest of your weekend and start to the new week ahead.