Sweet Dreams Art Journal Page

I suffer from funny little bouts of insomnia from time to time.  It usually lasts for a month and then I'm good for a while.  Last night I couldn't fall asleep so I decided to just play in my studio until I dropped.  It only took until around 2:30 am.  Not bad.  Of course my ideas that seem so brilliant in the middle of the night usually don't look so hot in the morning light.  But I did do a jounaled art page that I still like this morning.

It started with Dina Wakley's hearts then I added a little Zentangle.  I decided with all those hearts the theme should be "love" (I really think that came from playing '80s love songs in the background).  The color surrounding everything is my new crush, Memento inks, applied with a sponge applicator.  I used Morocco red and a little Pistachio.  I wrote around parts of it with a black Copic Multi Liner 1.0.  Always nice to have some fun toys to access in the middle of the night, I used to do needlepoint all night long when I was younger.  I'd love to hear any thoughts or comments you might have, this art journaling thing is still pretty new to me.

Happy Dance!

It is always a thrill to have your work chosen for publication in ANY Stampington magazine!  I even get really excited if my work is in any of their ads.  : )   I just received my copy of the February/March 2012 issue of The Stampers' Sampler in the mail.   I have tried to "curb my enthusiasm".   Joe thought someone had died the first time I was published.    I couldn't speak, I just kept crying and pointing to the magazine.  Another time I was at Barnes and Noble when I saw the magazine and kept showing complete strangers my work.  But, as I said before, it is always a thrill and a privilege to have the folks as Stampington like my work enough to put it in a magazine.  They were nice enough to show a box I made using the fabulous Dina Wakley grunge style stamps.  I made the box to hold other projects that I had sent them.  They gave me a two page spread in the Artists-On-Call section demonstrating the use of Kristen Robinson's lovely stamp line called "Love Lines".  So I am doing a happy dance today!

RC007: Frosty - Use Vellum Challenge with Rogue Redhead Designs

Rogue Redhead Designs has a challenge to use vellum in some way on a project.  I have used the wisdom of Winnie the Pooh printed on a piece of vellum to answer that challenge.  Really, wisdom does not get much deeper than Pooh Bear, does it?  I first covered 5"x7" blank white card with some pink birdcage card stock.  I applied a strip of double sided tape across the middle of the card, peeled off the protective covering and dumped silver glitter across the tape.  Removed excess glitter by a lot of tapping.  I cut out the VELLUM phrase, framed it with a pink Anna Griffin frame, matted that on white card stock cut a little larger, then cut a slightly larger piece of green card stock and matted the entire phrase panel on that.  I stamped LOVE from studio G's alphabet stamps and glued that to the right corner.  I then glued the entire panel to the center of the card.  Popped a peel and stick bird in the upper left corner, tied two tiny pink bows and attached one to the top and another to the bottom with glue dots.  I stuck two pearl topped hat pins to the top portion and one peel and stick pearl by Queen and Co. to the bottom bow.