I'm trying to catch up on my 30 Lists so I did two more art journal pages last night.
The first topic was, '10 Years Ago..." This was really heading into sad territory so I focused on the facts - like that my boys were 3, 4 and 5 and we had amazing friends, I was researching homeschooling.
I started out with this:
And made this:
She is a favorite Stampotique stamp of mine called Glimmering Hope
On the other side I used the prompt, 'My Superpowers' and I didn't worry about the two sides matching. I decided that it's all me so some sort of continuity should present itself.
The heart was some leftover Ouchless Cardboard from Gauche Alchemy that I used the area around it in this Love Birds AJ page:
See:
And I used a mix of stickers, rub-ons and words from magazine pages for the text.
The wings on the heart are Bombshell Stamps from the Sacred Heart set. It was one of my first sets and I still reach for it often. Gotta love that kind of staying power. After cutting the wings out, I Mod Podged them to the heart and background and then, once dry, colored them with Sakura gel pens.
Here are the pages side by side. click to see them full-sized.
And I wanted to thank my friend Eileen for the Versatile Blogger Award, so sweet of you.
4 comments:
AWESOMENESS....love it!
That is too cool, that stamp is awesome! Love the colors you used here too!
Love the pages and the fact that you stuck to the positive in your journaling :-)
Love these pages!!
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