Friday Art from my Quebec Journal

      Hi everyone. Happy Friday. It's almost the weekend, and I hope yours will be a good one. Today I have a few pages from my Quebec travel journal to share. My first view is for Wendy's On, In or By the Sea challenge at Art Journal Journey. I'll also be linking  this post to  Nicole's  Friday Face Off   as well as to  Gillena's Friday Lunch Break. 

    The boat image is a postcard I picked up. I also used an embossed background, some die cut netting and a die cut anchor. The bend on the top right corner of my page is because it wasn't 100% flat.

   My next couple of pages are ones I drew and painted. Both of these are my take on some photos/views I shared  in my past  Monday post (which is here if you want to check it out: T Stands for More of Quebec Part 5.).

    This next page is made with a combination of a few items. I started by cutting this cabin view out of a sheet of paper. Then I used a set of tree dies to cut out some trees. I used those to fill in the front. I painted the river and then drew in and painted the mountains and the tiny bit of sky. 

      And for my final view, I need a face (or 3) to link up to Nicole's Friday Face Off. I know I've shared this photo recently, but I printed off  a copy to make a journal page out of. 

Have a super start to the weekend.

Lighthouse by the Sea

    Hi everyone. Happy Wednesday. It's already the 13th of the month. I like how November is usually a pretty quiet month before the holidays and real winter begins, but I really don't want it to go this fast.  What can you do since time keeps its own schedule? Maybe it could slow down just a bit though. 😏

     Today I have another journal page for Wendy's On, In or By the Sea challenge at Art Journal Journey. This is another page from my Quebec  travel journal. The rain I stamped on the page is because during our visit to a couple of light houses  we were getting some light rain.

     My page is inked with grey. Then I stamped the  map images on the 2 corners. I hope you didn't notice that I had to flip the image upside down to use in the top left corner-grin. (Of course, if you didn't notice, now you do, right?  😏)  The rain, seagulls and quote are all made with some assorted rubber stamps. I painted the area around the base of the lighthouse green.  The porthole and the netting are both punch outs, and the light house is fussy cut out of paper and then colored red to match many of the light houses I saw in Quebec. 

     The other night we had a very cool ring around the moon before some light rain moved in, and when I was out with dogs I snapped a couple of photos on my phone.

It's pretty amazing how well my phone takes night photos. These are untouched with any editing software.

That's all for me today. I hope yours is going or goes well.

    

Weekend Chatter

 Hi everyone. It's Sunday again.  I hope you are having a nice weekend. It's been a bit chilly and windy so far this weekend in my area, and it sounds like typical November weather has arrived, compared to the middle of last week when we had some more beautiful mild weather.

     Today I have a journal spread to share for Wendy's On, In or By the Sea challenge at Art Journal Journey. I am also linking up to Gillena's Sunday Smiles.

     By now you probably know my husband and I went to Quebec back at the end of September, and many of you might also already know that I like to make trip journals. Since we spent so much of our time away near the ocean, I'll have some pages to share this month  that work for Wendy's AJJ challenge. Here's my first one, a 2 page spread about our visit to Mighasha National Park.  This link takes you back to my original post about our visit about this premier fossil site on the ocean.

     I made the background yellow and grey to match both the cliff's color and also the grey many fossil rocks are. I used a couple of sets of Paper Artsy rubber stamps and stamped fish on both the actual background and on some printed paper. The fish on the printed paper were fussy cut. I also stamped the background with some label rubber stamps and a few design images. The green circle is the actual sticker  I needed to wear in the park, and I used some stickers to make the title for the page. Finally I cut out one black and white fish image from a travel info brochure and added that. It's a modern fish but since fish are still an important part of the Gaspe area, I thought it fit. 

    And how about a few photos to wrap up this post?

    I went for a 5 mile hike with some friends the other day.  I took photos of the trail signs as we walked because a few years ago when we did this hike we ended up on the wrong trail and had to backtrack a couple of miles. Luckily we didn't need the photos this time to find the right trail back to the car.

The end of the trail for us was on top of this cliff that had a nice view.

Even though I didn't get a great photo, we saw a pileated woodpecker. We also saw a couple of squirrels. But I think most likely we were talking too much and scared away anything else. 😏

     We had some gorgeous weather this past Wednesday, and my husband wasn't up to going to work, so he took the day off. He went up to close his mother's house on the lake for the winter, and the dogs and I tagged along. 

And I thought my yard was full of leaves. Here's my  mother-in-law's driveway.

I had my husband drop me off at the end of the road, and the dogs and I walked in to her house. It was a lovely day to do that.

I also had to go to Maine one day last week for an appointment. I stopped to grab some lunch at a local restaurant, and in their waiting area they had this fun cow bench.

Finally, my own yard clean up continues. Believe me, I don't get rid of all the leaves that fall (I'm not that obsessed), and it is probably even impossible to do that. 

   Of course with the strong winds earlier this weekend, all the loose leaves have shifted. I watched them blow around the other day and even got hit in the face by a few when I went out to get the mail. 😏 I may not have any more lawn clean up until spring, which would be great.

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