sheet music – Stamped Smiles

Hello friends and welcome to February! Hoping that wherever you are that this is a great month for you! This month I’m excited to be the host over at Art Journal Journey for my second year! So be on the look-out for several art journal pages from me this month!

For my prompt, I was feeling a musical theme🎵 would be a broad area to cover for art journaling. You could pull out some old sheet music, use music notes and/or instruments, song titles and/or lyrics, musical quotes, etc. I look forward to seeing all of the musical inspiration in the gallery, so I hope you can join too! Here’s my first sample page to get started:

I had made a card a few years back that I made my own piano, but in a smaller scale size and I thought it would be fun to try and incorporate that idea onto a page.

For the background: I started with my usual size 5.5″ x 8.5″ cold press 140# watercolor paper and used a ruler to line ” white keys” for the piano at the bottom with a black marker. I cut strips of black glossy cardstock for “black keys” and attached them over top. BEFORE attaching the sheet music in the center, I attached some baby wipes to a ruler with rubber bands and dropped watercolor in rainbow on it. I then dragged the ruler down several times to achieve the rainbow pattern at the top. (I made a video a few years back if you want to see how it’s done on a card HERE.)

I die cut a scallop curved border on the sheet music and added some black ink around the edges before attaching in the center of the page so that the piano keys and rainbow pattern shows. I then took some gold watercolor and splattered over the page but covering the piano keys to prevent them from getting splatter.

Once the background and piano was done, I die cut the “music” lettering from more of the glossy black cardstock and added a musical note brad next to it. I took a white gel pen and wrote the quote in the center and then lined that black strip and the keyboard area with strips of gold metallic paper.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you’ve enjoyed my art journal page today and have been inspired to play along too! I look forward to seeing your musical inspiration in the Art Journal Journey gallery soon!

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