July AJ Page-Always Look Up!

Animals, Art Journaling, Magical/Mythical/Fairytale, Mixed Media, My Favorite Things (MFT), Other Than a Card, Whimsy Stamps

Hello friends and happy weekend! As we finish off another really hot day…probably for most of the U.S. right now, I do hope you’re staying cool and enjoying the rest of the month of July.  We’ve been in a heat advisory in our area for the last few days, but hopefully it will cool down soon.  In the meantime, I will be crafting inside!

It’s time for the monthly Art Journal Page collaboration with my crafty friend, Carol (from Crafty-Stamper)! We get creative trying to use up our never-ending stash piles along with a prompt for each month.  I know she will have some wonderful inspiration to share, so please check out her blog too! Here’s my AJ page with the “SMASH OUR STASH” July prompt of “STRIPS/STRIPES”:

I don’t know why this makes me giggle, but it does!  I thought the best way to create the “STRIPS/STRIPES” prompt would be to pull out some more of those never-ending stash of pattern papers!  So I pulled some out for the strips at the bottom that I cut out with a hillside border die and one of the pieces happened to have stripes on it which worked out for both!  I thought it would look great for the field that the cow WAS on.😆

For the background:  I started with my usual piece of 6″x 9″ pre-punched at the top from Canson Watercolor paper and made a galaxy background with watercolors.  I had fun making a mess with it!  I let it air dry underneath some heavy books to keep it flat as it dried.  Once dry, I splattered some Copic opaque white with a fan brush over it.

This is where I added the strips of cut papers at the bottom.  Before I cut the green layer at the bottom, I ran it through my printer to create the quote on my computer.  I sponged the edges of it with green ink.  I also sponged some black ink around the edges of the galaxy background too.  The striped paper was painted with a light green ink and then splattered with a darker green color as I was trying to mute it a bit.  The “fence” behind it was cut out with white cardstock and placed behind the striped strip piece.

For the flying saucer and alien, I used an UFO die set from Whimsy Stamps and cut it out with several different specialty papers like holographic, silver glitter, green metallic, black glitter, vellum and acetate (for the front window of the saucer).  I popped it up with foam tape over a die cut piece of vellum that I’ve colored with a yellow marker and sprayed with shimmer spray…hard to pick up in a photo, but you can barely see it.  I attached it over the background by using my Xyron sticker machine, so you can still see through it.

I glued the “confused cow” from the MFT The Whole Herd stamp set within the “beam” vellum.  The hillside borders that I cut the bottom strips with came from MFT as well. 

I hope you’ve enjoyed my AJ page today and been inspired in some way!  Thanks so much for dropping in and don’t forget to look up!!😆

Challenges:

  1. Art Journal Journey – Come Fly with Me!
  2. Crafting From the Heart – Anything Goes except cards
  3. Creative Artiste – Anything Mixed Media
  4. Ally’s Angels – Anything Goes
  5. Crafting Happiness – Any Type of Craft
  6. Penny’s Paper-Crafty – Anything Goes Using Paper
  7. Through the Purple Haze – Anything Goes

Published by *Vicki*

I'm so happy you found me! I love to share smiles with my handmade cards! I also enjoy papercrafts through art journaling, scrapooking and mixed media projects too! Thanks for stopping by!

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30 thoughts on “July AJ Page-Always Look Up!”

  2. This is so clever and fun and I just love how you created the background and vellum light beam! Your sense of humor is wonderful in adding the cow in the air too! I know birds often drop things in the air but I wouldn’t want to be under a cow in that instance! LOL This is just the cutest idea and I love all the work you put into creating it! Thanks for the smiles 🙂

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  4. This is a gorgeous AJpage, Vicki. Fab background and I love that confused cow!
    xxx Margreet

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  6. This makes me smile all over and I keep thinking…..beam me up Scotty! LOL! I LOVE this Vicki! So cute and creative. The background sky is sensational.
    Lynn

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  9. I just knew you would have a brilliant journal page-I love the confused cow,spaceship and little green alien-yes we both thought alike strips of P.paper goodness knows we always have lots of them and will definitely use that idea again
    Carol x

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  10. I love your galaxy background Vicki, the splattered stars and the colours are fabulous, the poor cow, did make me giggle a bit too, floating up into the wonderful spaceship paper pieced and the creepy alien in there, and I love the grass and hills in stripes and what a great wavy fence..fabulous page Vicki..

    Luv CHRISSYxx
    My e mail is back you shot into junk, how dare it put you in junk, my e mail thing updated and my e mails went all over the place, but you in the right place now xox

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  12. Super cute!! Vicky you and Carol have this marvelous thing going on and this is one amazing arty journal page.. x

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  15. This page put a big smile on my face this morning. What a unique and great idea for Alison’s challenge Vicki. That cow is so cute, and he certainly is flying. 🙂 I’m glad you decided to join us at AJJ for Alison’s challenge this month. Especially since we were able to see this fun page. Thank you. It’s finally cooled off her, and the house seems deadly quiet without the AC running. I hope it stays cool for both of us for awhile. Enjoy the rest of your weekend. hugs-Erika

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  17. Oh, Vicki, this is such fun. It makes me giggle, too. What an incredible layout and use of colors, spatters, strips, and vellum! WOW, my friend, just WOW!! 😀

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  18. Vicki the minute I saw your card and sentiment, I started giggling also. Such a wonderful and fun card. Thanks for linking up with us over at Penny’s Challenge. Best of luck, Jana DT

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  19. This is fabulous! Also topical with aliens in the news. Your background is just gorgeous. So many layers of “space” with the galaxy colors. And your beam is genius. This page really is awesome and so fun. We too are trying to keep cool in record high temps.

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  23. This is so much fun! I love the expression on that critter’s face as he’s being lifted (or dropped?)! Great job, as always! I’m hoping to get back to blogging and entering some challenges – may use your challenge lists as starting points, if you don’t mind, as I’ve sorta lost track of what, when, and where I can enter! Keep inspiring me, dear friend!!! Hugs!

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  24. I think this is one of my favorite journal pages – I love whimsy and this is sure that way. Love your blended galaxy – and the fence is perfect. Hope you are having a good summer – things a bit hectic here but I do get in my craft room when I can. It is my escape.

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  27. My my how interesting ant to think it all started with strips/stripes! The space craft and alien look very authentic (at least what I’ve seen on tv). The cow is bewildered and I would be too! The colors are just great and the saying works great wtih it all! Love it as usual! Smiles, Kathy

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  28. I’m still smiling looking at your card. But when you think about the problem, alien abductions are not necessarily fun… :-)))
    hugs,
    BożenA

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  29. Always know I am going to see something creative from you, Vicki and this takes the cake!! It is wonderful and the alien and space ship and the cow..OH MY! What a fun card, made me giggle!!

    Hugs
    Sue

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