The Dancer

Hi everyone. Happy Thursday.

    It seems strange not to have any snow in the forecast for several days, but I will take that kind of strange. 😀 👍 The weather folks are saying that  the temperature will be a bit higher and closer to the freezing point this weekend, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed 🤞the pattern of the last few weeks of almost constant winter weather has changed. However, I know winter isn't over in my area yet so I'm going to enjoy the less brutal weather while it's here. ❤

     Today I have another page for Vicki's Music challenge at Art Journal Journey I'm also going to join Creative Artiste Mixed Media Challenge Blog for their February #112 challenge.

     My page today is made with lots of scrap papers layered on the background. I then did some stenciling with a bit of white gesso. The accordion player is cut from a Ciao Bella pad. I added a bit of music tissue paper.  The dancer is a chipboard image that I painted. The quote is an ancient one from Post Modern Designs. And to finish, I outlined the page with a Sharpie and added bits of cloth ribbon/trim in the top left and bottom right corner.

    There's my page and I hope you like it. That's all for me today.

 

Holiday Whimsey

 Happy Friday!

I really don't know where the weeks go. This one, like all the others, flew right by. Time slow down a bit please! Christmas is only 2 weeks away. I guess I need to write my cards and wrap my gifts. Smile.

Today I have a whimsical fantasy page for Valerie's When One Door Opens Another One Closes challenge at Art Journal Journey. I am also linking up to challenge #78 at Creative Artiste Mixed Media challenge blog.

I used to have a couple of mushroom house rubber stamps, and in my various cleanings and purgings, I had passed those along.  The memory of them however inspired this page. I began by drawing this giant mushroom house with a Sharpie on a sheet of watercolor paper.

I used paint, markers and stamps to create the basic house. While the paint dried I took a sheet of snowy scrapbooking paper from my stash and glued it down onto some watercolor paper. I then painted the bottom white to make it the snow covered ground.

I attached the mushroom house to my background paper. Then I drew in the chimney and used some Stabilo pencils to create the smoke. If you aren't familiar with Stabilo pencils, when you wet them they get all smudgy.

I then used both  very watered down white paint and only  slightly watered down white paint to add some accumulating snow onto the house.  I also added some details such as the die cut and glittered Christmas lights around the mushroom cap, as well as some die cut winter branches in the base of the window box. I also drew in the details around the door and window.

I added the little trees, a vintage Santa image, and then used paint and Stabilo pencil to make the little stone walkway.  Finally I stamped the quote and added it to finish my page. 

That's all for today. Have a great start to your weekend! And thanks so much for visiting my blog too.