For Those About to Rock – Stamped Smiles

Hello friends! I hope you’re having a great start to your week! We’re supposed to be getting some snow coming in tomorrow, but this will be the first heavy snowfall that we’ve had all winter! I can’t complain too much and I enjoy looking at the snowfall. (from my window that is! LOL)

When I’m playing in my craft room, I enjoy listening to music. I enjoy all sorts of genres and will listen to pretty much anything, as for me, it’s another form of art to appreciate. Speaking of genres, I have more inspiration to share for the “MUSIC” prompt I’m hosting this month at Art Journal Journey:

My husband and I both like the “classic rock” and there are several bands that we grew up listening to over the years. So if you know rock, then you know the lyrics on the guitar pick comes from an AC/DC song!

For the background: I started with a 8.5″x5.5″ canvas paper 140# (using the backside without the canvas texture) and attached some printed paper of several music bands I found online. I ripped some sections and then covered it with white gesso to lighten it up…I wanted it faintly in the background. I took a vortex circle stencil and sprayed it with oxide sprays in Fired Brick and Salvaged Patina. I then splattered some white and black paint over it and also added some splattering with silver watercolor. I sponged some grey ink around the edges and then used a black distress crayon to go along the edges to darken it more.

I stamped the guitar, colored it and positioned it in the center of the circle and then stamped a few music notes around it in the background.

I used my Cricut machine to create the layers of flames at the bottom. The guitar pick was found online, printed and cut out. I went around the edges of that with a black distress crayon as well. I placed a black sparkle strip at the bottom and cut some stars with silver foil cardstock. I black heat embossed the hand and punched it out with a circle punch to pop up on the largest silver star.

Lastly, I’ve used some rub-ons for the stitching details and then went around each star with a black pen.

Here’s a closer look at some more of the details at the bottom of the page.

A few years ago, we went to the Rock & Roll museum in Cleveland, OH during a road trip the following year after COVID. It was a fun museum!

We were standing in front of the museum and we were trying to get the entire sign in view of the photo… it was cool and rainy that day.

I took a photo of the AC/DC display with some clothing, guitars and even some song lyrics they had wrote down. It was pretty cool as most of the items were donated to the museum from the artists themselves. Some of it was really weird and random, but very interesting!

(The items on the right were from Angus Young of AC/DC)

(The Jack Daniel’s guitar is from Michael Anthony of Van Halen)

I hope you’ve enjoyed my inspiration today and will take some time to create your musical art journey page to share it with us over in the gallery at Art Journal Journey! Thanks so much for stopping by!

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