Tropic of Dancer Glue Book Journal Spread

 Hello and I hope we are all doing well today! I've been playing in my Puns & Roses Glue Book again,  which has a wordplay theme. I got the idea for this pun (a riff on the Tropic of Cancer latitudinal area that includes the popular Caribbean vacation paradises) a few months ago when Gecko Galz monthly theme was dancing, but it has taken me a while to actually create it. Luckily, November's theme is Magical Dreams plus Art Journal Journey's theme is All Kinds of Weather, so I figured I had better get busy on it, because when a second chance comes, take it! 😁

This is in a Glue Book where I try to use only paper and glue. I began with a base layer of a very old 12x12 Flair Designs Paradise collection sheet cut in half down the middle and bottom to fit my 6.26x8.50" pages. But I first adhered some shiny black and gold diamond washi tape around the entire perimeter and in the spine, then adhered the paper. This created a black and gold anchor for my images. 

I loved the paper pattern which looked to me to be mid-century illustrations. I thought I could mash it up with Art Deco, so I searched for some digital frames from that period. I fould some great ones at MeandAmeleieDesigns and have used 2 of them here: one for the title square and the other on my featured Gecko Galz images. I printed out the frames in black and white and colored them gold with a Posca paint marker. In PSE, I created my title and journaling within one of the digital frames. I colored the inside with blue and black Promarkers and the gold Posca. The journaling is a little poem I thought up. 😊

I used several Gecko Galz digital printed images (see, my new inkjet does a great job on these!) . Only one of the smaller images I used is a black and white digital stamp, so I colored it with Promarkers. It's the woman in the hot pink outfit on upper left. I also stamped and fussy-cut the lady at bottom right -- she's a Technique Junkies/Stamp Camp silhouette stamp. I thought she would look better in solid gold, so I brushed her with a liberal coat of gold Wink of Stella.

After adhering my images to the frames, fussy-cutting the smaller images, arranging them all in between the many illustrations of the base paper and gluing them down, my final step was to embellish with gold stars. I went looking for them in my Black Hole of Stash and also found some really cool holographic circle borders. So I cut some to add grounding to my 4 unframed images.

 

 

Some close-up shots for you.... there's a ton of glittery, sparkly shine to show! Click on photo to enlarge. While looking through images to use, my memories drifted back to when Dear Daughter was on the high school competition dance team and she wore many costumes like these. She was such a good dancer and with no formal training either, unless you count the 2 weeks she was in Ballet and Tap in second grade. I'd started her with Miss Billie, the same woman I took from. One day, Billie asked to speak to me after class and said that she didn't think the lessons were a good fit for Katy, as she didn't want to do anything but dance in front of the mirror on her own, LOLOL. She suggested I buy her a floor-length mirror and save my money and time. So I did. Little did I know that just a few years later, Katy would excel as a dancer, be named to the State and All-American Dance Teams and get to perform twice in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade! Whenever I look at this spread, I will think back to that time. 😘

And a final view of my spread. I hope you like it! I had a bunch of fun with it and got another spread done in this book. It's such a creative refresh for me from all the cardmaking. Thanks for stopping by. Until next time, keep on crafting and please stay well! XXO

MY CHALLENGE PLAYLIST:

Art Journal Journey November Challenge: All Kinds of Weather, Hosted by Pearshaped Chris

My spread illustrates sunny tropical beach weather

Gecko Galz November Blog Challenge: Magical Dreams

GG Products used: 

Devine Deco Digital Stamp Set

Costume Crazy collage sheet

Explosion of Color collage sheet

The Dance collage sheet

Gecko Galz FB November Challenge: Magic Memories

See above for GG products used

MAWTT November Challenge #136: Anything But a Card

CHNPP November Challenge: AAG w/PP

ABMTTC #Nov/Dec Challenge: AAG

More Mixed Media November Challenge: AG + Opt. Use BLACK

We Love to Create MM Challenge 12: AG

The Corrosive Challenge #11 November: AG

APTS #11 November 2021 Challenge: Craft A Favorite Memory

613 Avenue Create #11 November 20201 Challenge: AG Only

Crafts Galore Encore #93: AAG

Girlz Creative Crafts Challenge #19: Ribbon/Rope/Lace

I have used washi tape

Creative Craft Cottage #146: Add Some Sparkle

TTCRD 11/23-11/30: AAG

Colour Crazy Craft Challenge Week 46: AAG w/Colouring

I coloured the gold silhouetted woman with Wink of Stella, and I coloured all of the frames with Promarkers and Posca Paint Markers. I also colored the woman in hot pink with Promarkers.

Aud Sentiments #288: AG + Sentiment