Art Journal Page::She flies with her own wings

I saw a lovely prompt the other day that said "Alis Volat Propriis" or "She flies with her own wings".  I had a two page spread in my "junk" journal, that is the one where I try things out.  The background looked cluttered so I just set it aside until I had time to gesso over it.  Yesterday I saw an image with a lot of white in a magazine and also had just purchased a down load from DeviantScrap.com.  BTW, if you haven't been to the Deviant Scrap site you're really missing out.  They have fantastic images there of all kinds.  This particular set is designed by Hidden Vintage Studios and it is called Tangled Up.  It has all kinds of ZIA, Zentangle Inspired Art, images and is wonderful.  I felt like the pages were transformed, they just needed that extra splash of white.  I hope you agree.

Have a great day!

Less is More Challenge, Week 51 Theme "Cut it out"

The site called "Less is More" is having a challenge currently that involves a cut out on the project.  My project is a card with a circular window cut out on the left side.  I cut a circular frame to go around the opening and used the circle that remained to go on the inside of the card.  I stamped the inner circle with the crackle stamp from IndigoBlu using Ranger's Frayed Burlap ink.  I cut a gear out of cork with Tim Holtz's Gadget Gears die and placed a father figure from Graphic 45 paper.  The word "dad" is from Authentique.  The cork panel is matted onto the crackled panel and glued inside the "window".  On the front of the card I glued the circular frame around dear old dad.  I then tore strips of butterfly tissue tape (also by Tim Holtz) and then glued a strip of flowers (Trimmings by Tim Holtz).  The inside of the card says "You are very special to me".  But then, isn't almost every one's daddy special?