It's Friday the 13th

    

  Happy Friday. 

 I came home from my girls trip yesterday. My friend Deb and I headed down to Florida for a few days. Even though I'm not a huge Florida fan, it was fun to get away. We spent most of our time at a few of the  big amusement parks.  We rode a few rides, watched some of  the park shows, walked a lot (averaging 6 to 9 miles/ 9.6 to 14.5 km  each day) and enjoyed some overall  nice weather. 🌞  I know not everyone is a park fan, but I had lots of  fun doing something different. And more importantly, it was great to spend some girl time, see some new things and even have a little Harry Potter  magic. ❤

    Today I'll be joining Nicole for her Friday Face Off and also Gillena for her Art for Fun Friday. And since I haven't posted anything to Wendy's The Colors of Autumn challenge over at Art Journal Journey for several days, I'll also be linking  up this post there also.

   Since November in my neck of the woods tends to be dark with the leaves all turning brown and the days getting shorter and shorter, I used a lot of dark colors on my page. However, if you get a beautiful blue sky and a sunny day, there seems to be some bright colors, so I also added the pieces of yellow stripes to my background. And I even added just a slash of pink to represent the sunsets, which although early, can sometimes be so colorful.

   To anchor my page I added a strip of washi tape, and below that a border sticker with acorns and oak leaves. The deer and mushrooms are both chipboard images of a sheet Mintay chipboard that I painted.To finish off the mushrooms I added some half pearls to their tops. The moon is stamped and punched out with an old circular paper punch. I've kept all my old circular paper punches because I think they are much easier for quick  punching out circles than figuring and using the right circle die cut. The image is from  the old and now defunct Postmodern Design.

   Finally I stamped and fussy cut the quotes, but I didn't really pay attention to who made them. Since I made this page back in October, I'm now at a loss which set or sets they came from. 😟

   As fun as it was to go away, it's good to be home, and nice to be back online. I hope everyone had a super past week.  Have a great Friday and start to your weekend.