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Art for art’s sake

July 3, 2018 - By halleday

Early Sunday morning I sat down to create. Getting my fingers full of paint and glue rejuvenates me. I used what was at hand.

Scrapbook paper, magazine cuttings, ribbon and washi tape just to name a few.

After creating this page I notice that the current theme for July on Art Journal Journey is Art for Art’s Sake hosted by Chris of Pearshapedcrafting. Don’t you just love it when things fall into place. It doesn’t always happen that so when it does…woohoo!

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Inspired by Summer

June 28, 2018 - By halleday

As I sat down to create in the midst of a summer that I hadn’t planned, my mind wandered to the beautiful things. The things that make me appreciate summer. Beautiful colors. Flowers. Birds singing. Breeze blowing through open windows.

All this had me in the mood for an explosion of color. I used my fingers to loosely apply paint in a tribute to a gorgeous sunrise or sunset. The colors were a little too bold. Too in your face so using a baby wipe I blended and softened the page until it made me happy.

I pressed uninked rubber stamps into the paint to create some interest on the background as the stamps pulled even more of the still wet paint away with them as you can see above with the grid pattern.

After heat setting the page I used a harlequin stamp with white ink to lightly stamp randomly around the background using white embossing powder over top to provide a little more kick to the white.

Digging through my stash I found some rub-ons that fit my theme perfectly. The black really pops against the background.

A canning jar full of flowers screams summer beauty to me, Casual, simple, perfect.

I really wanted it to appear that these flowers were indeed inside a glass jar. This gave me a bit of a challenge.

I stamped the jar twice. One was clear embossed for later use. The first was adhered directly to the page. I then stamped my bouquet of flowers onto tissue paper using black Staz-on ink. I adhered the tissue with matte medium and placed on the page, partially “inside” the jar.

Next I cut out windows in the clear embossed jar. I cut a piece of vellum to fit and gave that a bit of shimmer with clear embossing as well. I carefully stacked and glued the pieces of the jar over the original stamped piece. Much to my great pleasure, the stems of the flowers shone through the “glass” as I had hoped. I used a Tim Holtz word sticker to sum up my thoughts.

The jar seemed to be missing something so I thought about the basket of goodies I carried home from a friends house like Little Red Riding Hood.

The perfect embellishment was right there.

I’m linking up today with Art Journal Journey for Inspired by… the theme chosen by this months host Gil from gibbyfrogettcraftations.

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Life is an adventure

April 22, 2018 - By halleday

Life. Family. Memories. Adventure.

The journey.

I was inspired to sit down to create this morning. I didn’t have a specific theme in mind but as I began to pull interesting pieces together I realized that I did have something in mind.

Over the last two days I’ve exchange emails with cousins from both sides of my dad’s family. A genealogy message board connected them even though they aren’t related, but I am to both of them. My “new” cousin was looking for photos and info on her Grandpa…who was my Grandpa’s brother. I was able to provide her with a photo she’d never seen of 4 of the brothers. As it turns out we live within 10 minutes of each other and plan to meet sometime after school is done. So cool!

Anyway…all this digging into the past. Thinking of stories told to me by my parents. Old photos. Genealogy. Family. Memories. All came together to inspire the page you see.

vintage stamps and lace

Blue chip stamps and vintage trim

B&W photo and flower embellishment

All of these pieces coming together as a vintage inspired tribute to my ancestors. Their life was a great adventure.

Ours is too. This is something I think we often forget through the drudgery of everyday life. Live your life…make it an adventure.

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I’m linking up with Art Journal Journey for Recycle and Collage.

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