Mid-week Art

    Hi everyone. Happy mid-week to you. Today I have an art post. 

   Let me start with this tag I made for Brenda's Love and Romance challenge over at Tag Along (and ATC's). I really like how this tag came out. It has me thinking of spring, and since the weather has been a bit warmer lately, I guess I am already thinking of the next season. 😏

   I started with a  scrap of thin white cardboard that came in some Christmas gift. It was just the right size for a tag so I saved it.  I started by inking the paper with  blue Archival  ink, and then I used a bit of pink-purple Archival on the edges.  I then stamped the butterfly over the background. The butterfly comes from a Stampendous set. 

   I  took a TH frame and added a bit of pink paper to the open center. I added some light pink (although I couldn't get the color right in the photo no matter what I tried) tickets from 49 and Market. Then I stamped, colored and  fussy cut the little butterfly from the same Stampendous set as the background butterflies.  To finish my tag I used a Sara Naumann stamp set from Paper Artsy. I stamped the heart (although I only inked part of that image) and also the love word.

  I also made a pocket from an envelope to hold my tag in one of my journals. It looks better in person than it does in a photograph. I think it's  a bit busy, but if I could get rid of a couple of red clear doily images it might be better. 😅

    Sometimes my desire to clean things off my work table takes over the desire for some not so cluttered design. 😏 You may see this envelope again. I've been busy reworking some older art lately.

   I'm not linking that pocket up to Art Journal Journey because I'm not sure it's really a journal page, but I am linking the next page to my "What's Up?" challenge.

   I had this balloon sticker which I liked and thought was interesting, so I decided to make a balloon page. I started by inking a my page with my blue Archival ink pad. Then I stamped  the 3 smaller balloons. They are part of an older set from the now defunct Flourishes clear stamps. I colored them in. Then I added my big balloon sticker.  After that I painted the clouds with some white paint, and then once that paint dried I took a Stabilo watercolor pencil and outlined them. With a wet brush I smudged the black watercolor pencil.

   I used some watercolor paint and added the darker blue streaks to give my background some depth. Finally I cut out the 3 faces from some old TH photo booth pieces that were in my stash. I added them to my page. I decided not to add a quote to this page, which makes it look a bit unfinished, but still, I don't think it really needs a quote. And if I decide it needs a quote later, I can add one then. 

   OK, that's enough chatter for me. Have a great rest of your day.