Happy Cinco de Mayo

 Hope you've had a good day. 

I have a tag, an art journal page and a food pic to share.

Michele's theme over at Tag Tuesday is Hats, so I made this tag to link up. The base is a 4x4" coaster. The sombrero and sentiments are from Joy Clair Design's Spicy Like That digi set. I sponged on a yellow base with Ranger Archival Buttercup ink. Then I applied Carved Pumpkin, Lumberjack Plaid, Rustic Wilderness and Wilted Violet DOX inks through a Funky Fossil Confetti stencil. I attached white snowball fringe at bottom and a Spellbinders topper die cut at top after stamping an Avery Elle striped frame for the top sentiment using Monarch Versafine Clair ink. I colored the sombrero with Promarkers. 

I cut the bottom sentiment with a Lawn Fawn die. I stippled both sentiments with Ranger Archival Chrome Yellow. And done! Festive, no?

Well, here's how we celebrated: Taco Soup, corn muffins and sliced avocado.

Don't worry, it was delicious!

And the soup included this chopped up -- Honey's first banana pepper of the season, planted from seed back in February and nurtured by the plant grow lights we set up in the garage to keep our succulent plants alive and warm through the winter.

I'm linking the pepper and the meal up to Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date, where the current theme is Embossed. I have heat-embossing coming up, read on!

And here's another page for the Flowers theme I'm hosting at Art Journal Journey. I did a little paper piecing, heat embossing and doodling. I found two sheets of the same DCWV designer paper floral pattern (but in different colors) in my paper stash. I cut an 8-inch square of each, then quartered each diagonally and mixed them as shown. I doodled on the paper collage with glitter markers once adhered. I brushed along the outer edges with gold Wink of Stella. Putting the 8-inch square back together on the journal page using both paper patterns is a larger bit of "quilt" paper piecing and I added the faux stitching doodles to accent it.

Using more paper scraps, the focal sun image was also paper-pieced: stamped twice with Versafine Clair ink, then one was gold heat-embossed and the face was trimmed out. The paper piecing was then adhered to a bigger scrap of orange-y sun paper that I found in my scraps. Glitter pens accented the face and circles surrounding the embossed rays.

My doodling of faux stitches with a glitter marker...

The gold heat embossing...

And the sentiments: another SEI rub-on on tissue paper and a TH chit-chat phrase. I thought the two phrases went together very nicely for an uplifting and encouraging message.

And one last look.

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Looking at the finished page, I noticed how the sun looks a bit like a flower among the others on the paper, and at the same time the background flowers look also a bit like planets around the center sun. 

Cool!

Thanks for the visit and for those who watch and enjoy King Charles' Coronation, God Save the King!

XXO

MY CHALLENGE PLAYLIST:

TAG -

Tag Tuesday Challenge: Hats

CD Sunday Plus Challenge #109, Hosted by Jocelyn

Try It on Tuesday Challenge: Use A Stencil

Creative Artiste Challenge #93

Scrapping 4 Fun #223: Alphabet Letter M

Cinco de Mayo

Ally's Angels Challenge #69

The Corrosive Challenge #4-2023

Classic Design Challenge May #4

Krafty Chicks Challenge #662 Week 1-Stamp Act

Inspiration Station Challenge Prompt #49

Festive Holiday, Bold Colors

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Art Journal Page -

Art Journal Journey Challenge: Flowers

Lost Coast Designs Challenge #166: Paper Piecing

Word Art Wednesday Challenge Weeks 593-594

A Place To Start May Challenge w/Opt. And Another Thing

Flowers + Sun

The Paper Funday Challenge #53 w/Opt. Wet Embossing

Sparkles Monthly Challenge #163: Emboss It (Wet)

Mix It Up Challenge #65 w/Opt. Embossing

Path of Positivity Challenge #112 w/Opt. Inspired by Nature