Time for a New Challenge at TIOT

    Hi everyone. It's been 2 Tuesdays already, so it's time for another new challenge at Try It on Tuesday.

   Before I introduce our new challenge, thank you everyone who joined  our Circles challenge. And thank you very much Sarah for being our guest designer for that challenge. ❤

    Our new challenge for the next 2 week  is Flying High: Anything that Flies.

    I made a journal that incorporates a tag I made awhile back as well as some honey bees. You might know that I am a hobby apiarist with 2 hives of honey bees so when it came to flying I decided to go with the bees.

   I started with a white journal page that I  lightly used some yellow watercolor paint on. Then I splattered it with some blue watercolor to match the tag that I was going to attach. 

     The tag was made by stamping and embossing the numbers and then adding 2 flower stickers as well as a butterfly sticker. I stamped the quote and added a couple little confetti pieces. If the tag looks familiar it's because it is not new, and I shared it over at Tag Along (and ATC's too) a while back.

  Lately I've been adding older tags and ATC's to some of my journal pages just because it's a safe place to put them. Since this tag had a butterfly (which flies) and makes me think of my garden, I decided to add all the bees to finish off the page.

  The die I used to make all the bees and flowers is from an old company called Die-Namites. The original die had 3 bees and 3 flowers all connected by these swirling lines.  You can see I snipped and attached several die cuts together to make  all the bees and flowers.  I cut these from black paper and then glued them down. I then cut some more out of some mostly pink scrap paper to get the flowers.  I also cut them a third time to from white paper to get the centers. It was a lot of cutting, but I like the effect. Plus I ended up with some extra bees and flowers for other art. 😏

   Our Flying High challenge runs for the next 2 weeks, and I hope you're inspired to join us.  

Time for a New Challenge at TIOT

     Hi everyone. Happy Tuesday. It is  time once again for a new challenge at Try It on Tuesday.

    Thank you Helen N for being our guest designer for our last challenge. And thank you everyone who joined in. There were lots of fun summer themed pieces of art.

     Our newest challenge for the next 2 weeks is GOING ROUND IN CIRCLES.

  I made a page in my summer themed journal for this challenge, and what's more  circular than a beach ball that has colored circles? (Well it's really spherical but on paper it makes a circle.)

   I stamped these Hero Arts images on white paper, used markers and Posca paint pens to color them in. Then I used an old circular paper punch to punch them out, and I added them to my page. This journal's pages are made  from some colored cardstock,  so that explains the green background. I also used a black Sharpie to outline the beach balls so they'd have a little more pop off the paper.

   I finished by stamping this quote several times. This quote comes from a really old clear set of stamps, one of the first clear sets I ever bought, and the label wrapper is missing, so I can't even guess who made it. I  finished off by adding a strip of washi tape along the right hand side to smooth out the edge of the partial beach ball that is there. 

   As always, this challenge runs for the next 2 weeks, and if you need some circle ideas, check out the ways all the designers used that shape in their pieces.  Don't forget, we accept all art forms at Try It on Tuesday too.

   Since beach balls are also something you think about in summer, I'll be linking my journal page up to Chris' Hot August (Nights and Days) at Art Journal Journey. Please remember we only accept art journaling (in any form) at that challenge. 

   I hope you like circles as much as I do, and that you'll join us at Try It on Tuesday for our latest challenge.