Paper Doll Loves of My Life

Week 6 of Life Book has a lesson from Jill Berry where we did paper dolls to honor the people in our lives that put us/kept us on our artistic journey. My four are, my hubby who always encourages me to buy more supplies, my mom who always got me a new box of crayons, my friend who always hits the "like" button on Facebook, and the last one is a combo of all my Internet friends who encourage me with all the wonderful comments that they leave on my three blogs. I kept this childlike and used napkins that represented these much loved people. Hubby is my hero, Mom loved flowers and polka dots, Amy brings sunshine into my life, and my Internet friends are from all over the world.

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Doors open

Winter sparkles at Christmas

I just posted this fun page over at my Tangle Street Colorway blog since I am on the Design Team for The Outlawz. The group I am part of  has an "anything goes" with a twist. So, tags, art journal pages, boxes, etc. are all welcome. But, since this is an art journal page, I thought I'd post it here too.
I used a blue acrylic background. The snowman is a napkin added with gel medium, the village is a stamp. I embossed snow and snowflakes and pulled out gel pens to brighten Santa and to add Christmas cheer to the village. (Some of you may know that I recently used this napkin for another journal page.)

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Journal 52, Week 46 Napkins ***Let It Snow***

Let It Snow. Do you remember snow days! They were the best ever! Remember sitting around the radio waiting to hear your school listed as closed! When it was, there was a huge whoop as we ran to get on all our snow clothes and go, where else, but up to the school yard to meet all our friends for some sledding. Some of us would sled down the big hills right into traffic. Fortunately, drivers expected it and none were ever hurt. (Except if our parents caught us, as this was strictly forbidden!) I, of course, never did this, but my brother did. I never told because he was older and I was always threatened with death! HAHA! Wonderful memories (except for the shoveling part), but I'm glad to live where we don't have any of that white stuff anymore. I am lucky that I can just drive a couple of hours and be right in it and then go back home and leave the shoveling to someone else!

Journal 52 Week 46

Blue acrylic mixed with Mod Podge for background. Molding paste through my new Pointed Star stencil from Jenni Bowling. Napkin below, Gel pens, embossing snow powder on bottom and embossing glitter black with letters. Snowman white is gesso and a few real buttons added for more texture. Finally, a quick spritz with Perfect Pearls.

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Paper Napkin Art Jounal Pages

Have you ever read about some technique that you haven't tried and gotten all excited about it but didn't have the XY or Z that you needed at the time? Then, you forgot all about it? Well, I was just at Target and saw some flower napkins in their dollar bins and remembered that I wanted to try adding napkins to my journal pages. I found a page that was really just leftovers from stencils, loaded paintbrushes, and pulled prints. So I cut out a few of the blue flowers, separated the layers so I could use the top one (I remember someone saying to blow on the napkin and it will separate - and it does! I would give them credit, but it was long ago.) I used matte medium and found that the top left one shredded a bit. Must remember to be more gentle HAHA! I also used the other layer to soften some of the black swirls too. This was a lot of fun and I am now on the hunt for more napkins!

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