Hello friends! Hope that your week has been off to a good start. We are closing up February, but there are still a couple of days left if you’d like to enter the Art Journal Journey Challenge that I’m hosting this month with the theme of “LIGHT“. It has certainly been a journey as I’ve never created that many pages within a month’s time! I did have fun on this journey as it also helped to push me to try a few different things that I can take me with as I continue to art journal. Thank you to everyone over there for having me as host for this month and to those that have played along, as I have really enjoyed all of the fabulous inspiration!
For my last page, I challenged myself to try something I don’t feel comfortable with:
Sometimes as hard as it can be, you just have to let it go. I let go the fear of hand lettering and drawing for this page.
For the Background: I’ve got a piece of canvas paper 5.5″x8.5″ that was pre-punched on the right side with my Zutter machine. (I like this canvas paper because it takes paint really well and the texture does not interfere with making the writing wonky.) I took my favorite colors turquoise and lavender paints that were extremely watered down to cover the page with. I was going for very light colors with a flow that blended together. Once dried, I took some light blue ink and stenciled in certain places.
For that cute little girl that I found on my computer from Tiddlywinks, I printed her out rather large to fit on my page and colored her with Copic markers. I printed an additional image over a piece of vellum and cut out the dandelion seeds and hearts and attached that portion to the girl image I colored. I did this so that you could still see the background. Once I’ve attached her to the page, I cut a piece of cotton ball and glued it to the dandelion weed and the one in her hair. (Cotton is pretty light!)
Lastly, I took a deep breath and used a pen to write the title above her head as well as all of the dandelion seeds floating around with the words. I used a white paint pen to make an underline around the words as if they’re flying through the air. I filled in the lettering with a blue gel pen.
- I hope you’ve enjoyed my page today and found some inspiration with it. I also hope you’ve enjoyed my journey this month with art journaling too! Thanks for stopping in!
Challenges:
- Art Journal Journey – LIGHT/KEEPING IT LIGHT
- My Time to Craft – Create Your Own Background (paints, stenciling, drawing)
- We Love to Create – Anything Goes Mixed Media
This is a great reminder to stay true to yourself and not focus on things that are beyond your control. I love the cute image with your amazing coloring, but I especially like your hand written messages attached to the dandelion bits that are taken by the wind. The subtle stenciling in the background pulls this all together beautifully. I think I’d frame and hang this page where I’d see it every day to remind myself that I need to learn to let go of things. You’ve created a very pretty, inspirational, and thought provoking journal page and I just love it!
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You did good on this! Nice page
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What a beautiful reminder to let go-as hard as it is sometime. Love the little girl – and the coloring is again “vicki perfect”. This is one of my favorite art journal pages you have done. Enjoy the beautiful weather today.
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So good to let go sometimes. It resulted in a beautiful page with great coloring of that sweet girl (love the cotton ball in her hair). Great lettering and love the writing around the dandelions.
xxx Margreet
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Awesome design, beautifully done from your image, background to the hand written messages that we all need to let go off.
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She is adorable Vicki and coloured beautifully and love all her “let it go” quotes around the dandelions, beautiful page..
Luv CHRISSYxx
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WOW Vicki this is absolutely gorgeous an amazing work of heart the background is awesome the colours are soft and delicate I love the sentiment and of course that wonderful Tiddly Inks image this is stupendous work
hugs
lolo x
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An inspirational post and reminder of everything we need to let go off,
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What a wonderful finale to hosting at Art Journal Journey Vicki! I wish I had been able to make more pages – I have loved this theme. Unfortunately a combination of getting used to new spectacles and catching Flu made me slow down! (One more to come though!) You have been an excellent host and I have really appreciated your visits to my blog and the encouraging comments you made – Thank you!
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You did such a super job this month as our host and even more so, you really have done a lot of super art journaling too. I hope you had a lot of fun. Today’s page is great, and it is interesting how letting go does lighten our spirits. Your lady is adorable too. This another great page. I hope it doesn’t get too cold, because your weather is heading our way for Thursday. Have a great rest of your month Vicki. hugs-Erika
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That’s so softly pretty – love the delicate colours! Great job with handwriting on it as well!
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Another fabulous journal page,you have made some brilliant ones all month!Love the cute image and all the handwriting on the dragonfly seeds-brilliant.
Carol x
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This is a great page Vicki, and your hand-lettering looks great. It took me a long time to be comfortable with mine.
Thanks for this month’s wonderful challenge.
Alison
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Another awesome page! I know they’ve thoroughly enjoyed having you host this month – all of your projects have been amazing!
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What an incredible way to end your month of hosting AJJ, Vicki. This is absolutely amazing. I love how you faced your fears and created this incredible journal entry. I hate My handwriting, but I LOVE yours. You did a fantastic job showing the various reasons why we need to let go of things that hold us back. I also like the springtime background. A perfect finish.
Bleubeard and I also want to thank you for hosting this month at AJJ. Not only were your comments thoughtful and caring, you gave us a great many ideas and that that could inspire us. I am personally sorry I have not been able to play as much as I would have liked, but I am proud of the other administrators who have picked up the slack. I personally hope you will host again next year!
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Another awesome page of inspiration! The little girl and dandelion are a fabulous way to depict your important messages of letting things go – wonderful 😊. Hugs, Jo x
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Super adorable Tiddy Inks image. She is wonderful for a journal page.
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WOW!!! This Art journal website looks… I have no words to describe my delight! Delicate, pastel colors look so delicate, they harmonize wonderfully with the delicate dandelion seeds. I am impressed with how beautifully you decorated the space around the girl by hand. You should do this more often and trust yourself that your artistic abilities are greater than you think.
xx
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Wow! This is a great page – so much to think about! Thanks for sharing!!!
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