This and That Art for Thursday

    Hi everyone. Happy Thursday to you. I hope you're having a nice week so far. It's been chilly at my house, and it's going to get even  chillier  before too long. 😨

 

    A couple of weeks ago I was going through a drawer and came across this journal I had made and never used. Now why was it just sitting there, tucked away? I guess at some point I wanted a journal for something and then never got to using up? It was a fun find, but there was no sense putting it back into the drawer only so it would be forgotten about again. There's no time like the present right? Especially when  the Andy Warhol Queen paper it was covered in was calling me so now I'm filling it up. ❤ 

   On the back of a page I added this tag that I made.  Or maybe it's more of a bookmark. I'm linking this up to Brenda's Love and Romance challenge at Tag Along (and ATCs).

   Shortly after I found this journal, I also found some scraps of paper that were either tag or bookmark sized already. Since it's not worth wasting them, I used this turquoise colored one and lightly inked the background with  a green ink pad. Then I added this postage scrap from 49 and Market. The big flower is also from that same company. Then I stamped  the little xo series in 3 of the postage boxes. I used a very very old peg stamp from a Valentine's set by PSX. The big X and O comes from another old clear set by Memory Box. I colored them in. I also took another peg stamp from the same Valentine's PSX set and stamped 3 little black hearts, which I then used as a frame around some little card confetti hearts.  (I think they are from Sprinkletz.) Finally I added a bit of funky yarn to the top and bottom, and stamped the LOVE word at the bottom. (It is another very old stamp and doesn't have a maker mark on it. It might have been from the same PSX peg set, but I just don't remember.) I finished by outlining the edges with a Sharpie.

    I also have a page for my "What's Up?" challenge at Art Journal Journey.  "What's Up?" with me is that I've been working in my newly found journal and have been making nice weather inspired pages. 😏 Anything to forget about the cold, ice and snow. Grin.

     Some of the  pages in this journal are watercolor paper, and then inserted in between them  are some large pieces of other types of paper. This page is some music printed paper. I decided to not only continue my spring/nice weather theme but to tie in the music also.

   I actually used a lot of stickers on this page. The flowers are another John Derian sticker, but I did enhance this one with some markers and pens. The guitar was a sticker outline that I added and then colored it in. The trumpet and sax were both fully colored stickers.  The hummingbird is a 49 and Market laser cut image, and the chickadee was on a tag that was connected to the new mug I bought and shared this past Monday on T Day. I fussy cut him out.  I also added a few little metallic musical notes stickers.

    The "Sit a Bit" quote on the page is stamped, and the flower's Latin scientific information were part of the big sticker that I cut out and added in a different spot. Finally I finished by adding some washi tape to the top and bottom. 

    

    It's supposed to be the warmest day of the week today, and I hope to get out and walk or least get a little  change of scenery. That's it for me. Thanks for stopping by my blog.