You Know the Type...

Hey everybody, Happy Last Day of August, where does the time go! Hope we're all doing okay. I managed to finish a second art journal spread this month, this time in my Puns & Roses word play glue book which is paper and gluestick collage. I woke up the other day thinking about this spread so it's a concept piece, which means basically it may only make sense to me, lol, but I'm sharing it anyway. 😜

Does anyone remember a movie from 1999 called Office Space? It's one of my favorites and I've included my favorite character, Milton Waddams. Now, have you ever been a fan of Wheel of Fortune? There's a section where they combine 2 phrases called Before and After. That's a form of word play and  my favorite part of the show. Well, I've done that on the right hand side with "Office Space Cadet". On the left side I've made a pun out of pronouncing "typographical". 

I must admit, this was also an excuse to use two ancient Paper Artsy stamps I've never before inked up (and have many times asked, what was I thinking buying these, lol). I'm thinking they fit in pretty well here. The little guy has "Flair" on his nameplate, a nod to Jennifer Aniston's character Joanna who has to wear like 37 flairs on her work uniform and she hates it.

So, the left side of the spread began with some DCWV scrap patterned paper: greyish clouds. I tore the sheet into strips until I had lots of torn squares, then I glued 'em down somewhat haphazardly. Next I laid down my ScorTape for the washi tape, then went to hand stamp and fussy cut (Flying Car guy, Cityscape -- both Lost Coast Designs and stamped with Ranger Archivals). I went to my computer and searched for a side view of a skyscraper and a good photo of Milton at his desk with his red stapler. Resized them, printed out and fussy cut, along with the page titles and sentiments. 

Right hand side has a bottom layer of striped DCWV patterned paper torn into strips, but this time I was neater and kept the strips intact when adhering so it looks like an intact pattern. The desk bottom is also striped paper. I hand stamped the Technique Junkies Time Clock Woman, Paper Artsy Art Dolls, Maya Road typewriter and the Scrollswork See Art face with Ranger Archivals in various colors, then fussy cut them, outlined them all with a black Promarker and adhered them along with the red sentiments. My last step was to add the washi tape all around each page.

Close-ups:

My punny title on the left side and underneath, my torn patterned paper layers.

Here, you can see the washi tape I have used. Good one to use for the "Type" theme at AJJ.

And my man Milton! Haha! The actor who played him, Stephen Root, had just played the station owner Jimmy James on the TV show News Radio. Suffice it to say, two totally different characters, so much so that I did not even realize it was Root when I saw Office Space the first time. I love when actors can do that!

And a final view. Hopefully you had a chuckle or two at my art journal shenanigans! Thanks for your visit and I hope you have a lovely day! Until next time, Stay Well and Craft On! XOX

MY CHALLENGES PLAYLIST:

1.   Art Journal Journey August: Type -- #2/xx

2.   Lost Coast Portal to Creativity Challenge #128: Face On -- #2/XX  

3.   Creative Fingers #213: AAG -- #3/3

4.   Let's Craft and Create #174: AG + Opt. Polka Dots and/or Stripes -- #2/3 Stripes

5.   Penny's Paper Crafty #503: AG with Paper -- #2/3

6.   Lemon Shortbread Challenge #153: AG -- #1/3

7.   The Creative Crafters #43: AAG -- #2/3

8.   Stamplorations August Summer Challenge: AG -- #4/6  

9.   We Love 2 Create Mixed Media #9: AMMG -- #2/xx 

10. Scribbles Designs Challenge #102: Fantasy -- #1/3

11. More Mixed Media August: AG + Opt. Brights -- #4/xx Option played!

12. ABMTTC Aug/Sept #144: AAG -- #3/xx

13. CHNPPC August Challenge: AAG w/Patterned Paper/Card -- #4/xx