Showing posts with label Japan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Japan. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Second on the Second

     Hi everyone. Happy second day of July to you. I'm here today with a second look for  Second on the Second which you can find at  Altered Book Lover's blog  blog.  I'm also going to share a new page for Halle's  Botanical  challenge at Art Journal Journey.  Both of my pages have a Botanical theme.

   Let me start with my second look, which is from my post on July 16, 2018. This is a photo and a page from my Japan journal. I was very lucky to be able to travel with my school to Japan in April of that year, and at one of the shrines we visited, I discovered something called the Marriage Tree. Or maybe trees is more accurate.


     The rope between the 2 trees is a symbol of how the 2 trees grow together over time, just like 2 people in a marriage also would.

     I made a journal page about these trees, and that's my second look. 


     And for a new look and to join Halle's Botanical challenge which is this month's theme at AJJ, here's a recently made journal page.


     You can see on this page I used some pink paint as well as some vintage style flowered backgrounds paper. I added the frame and a die cut bouquet that I inked and painted. The circles started with paint, then I used a watercolor pencil on them, and finally to finish those circles I used either a pink or orange marker. I added the sticker butterfly and stamped the quote which is from a set by Paper Artsy. I finished by adding the little crow which came from a roll of clear tape.

     That's all for me today. When I have to be at the lake for 7 it definitely cuts into my morning blogging time. I hope everyone is having a wonderful start to this new month.