Sunday in the Art Room

    Hi everyone. Happy Sunday.  It's already Sunday, and it was just last Monday. Did Tuesday through Saturday get kicked off the calendar? 😉

   Today I have a journal page for Matilde's Houses and Building challenge at Art Journal Journey and also for Creative Artiste Mixed Media Blog and their challenge #127.  I'm also joining Nicole for her Sunday in the Art Room  and Gillena for her Sunday Smiles .

   I'm happy with how my page for today came out, and I really like the way I created a hill going up with actually having to draw one on my page.

  I started with a page in my ledger journal and used some green-yellowish paint over the whole background. Then I used some pink paint and an Impression Obsession background stamp in parts of that background. I then took some purple paint and sponged it on randomly. I finished my background by using a handwriting stamp and added some handwriting in a dark brown.

   I then stamped the 2 house images and fussy cut them. I decided to leave them white so the the other colors on the page would pop more, and I also layered them.  I then used a punch out (from 49 and Market) of a strip of flowers along the bottom to anchor the houses and to create the hill. in the front of the houses I also added a fussy cut potted shrub (cut from a  sheet of paper) and a punch out bird. I stamped the quote at the bottom.

   I finished the page by painting some clouds above the house with white acrylic paint. I then outlined them with a black Stabilo pencils and used a wet brush to smudge the pencil.

   Last year I planted some chamomile seeds into a pot. We  had seen a lot of wild chamomile while driving around Greece in 2024, and when I saw this seed packet, it immediately brought me back to that adventure.

  This year this chamomile has come back with a vengeance.  Not only are they growing in the pot, but they've filled in the area around the pot too.

    

   I hope the whole area fills up the chamomile because they make me happy. And this is one spot we struggle to get grass  or just about anything to grow.

    And one thing I've observed this year is that when it rains or in the dewy evening, all the flowers move their petals downward. 

   And then, when the sun comes back out, they flip them upward. 

    Sometimes nature surprises me and creates beautiful gardens without me having to do any work to get there. Now I just need to figure out how to make chamomile tea. 👍

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