September 8th Weekly Post

 Happy Sunday!

How did your week go?

We are having THE MOST GLORIOUS COOL FRONT right now!!

I'm enjoying it so much, even though we will get some portion of Tropical Storm Francine on Tuesday night through Wednesday, but we are on the GOOD side of it this time.

As as one local weather person said, we will see how well Centerpoint Energy's duct taping has held together. It was a joke but way too truthful.

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For now, I'm sharing 3 projects I made earlier in the summer.

I have another art journal page to share for this month's Anything Goes theme I am guest hosting at Art Journal Journey. I've known about this since the beginning of this year, so I was able to make 5 pages ahead of time. And it must be good karma because I'm posting on Sundays now and there are 5 of them in September. A page a week works out perfectly as I still haven't made time for any crafting since Hurricane Beryl left. I did get lots done during the storm, though lol.

This page has gold acrylic paint, some torn flowery tissue paper, an arrow stencil applied with dark blue paint, some magenta paint applied with a round stencil brush, magazine clip art of a thoughtful woman that I fussy cut and kept on an inspiration board for YEARS, a light bulb stencil outlined with a yellow paint pen and the journaling is with very old 7G vellum alpha stickers I outlined the paint pen and a black roller ball pen.

Don't know if you even notice it, but I tried to mimic the colors and patterns of the clip art: the flowery tissue paper and flowers in her hair , the doilly stencil and the pattern on her hat, etc. And I love her serious thoughtful expression (like she's reading and thinking, WHOA!), because it's not easy to know yourself well. Seems like it would be, but how many of us really have no clue, lol. This phrase has been my personal mantra for most of my adult life after discovering it in a Greek/Roman philosophy class in college. I always say, I don't know much, but I do know myself finally. And discovering more every day. Somebody once said, YOU are the most fascinating person you will ever meet. I agree with that!

Here is the page when I began. Looks like I did some hidden journaling on the bare page, then gesso'd over that, then used the page to offload paint from a doilly stencil plus some titan buff and red paint from a paint brush or roller. Plus a little piece of washi tape on the outside edge of the page. 

And here are most of the supplies used, missing the alpha stickers, Posca yellow paint pen and my black roller ball pen. I'm so glad I bought a big bottle of the Golden's Quinachridone Gold a while back, as they no longer make it and it is a glorious yellow gold.

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Okay next up is a birthday card made for a girlfriend.

I had this Jennifer Scraps Etsy moon and night sky clip art printed out so I found appropriate Altenew and Stamplorations sentiments to stamp, along with a Bazzill card stock base, mat scraps and star-embossed kraft card, and a sheet of Memorybox embossed designer paper. The clip art and mat were cut with a notched stitched square die and I also used a red glitter gel pen to doodle and embellish. I added some white punched stars from my stash to finish it.

Used this Splitcoaststampers sketch for my 6x6 layout design.

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And last but not least, a New Year's card for my card stash. I always seem to need at least one.

I used a white card stock base and GenX designer paper, along with some white and dark blue-green card scraps, Gecko Galz collage sheet squares outlined with a dark blue Promarker, a Penny Black HNY sentiment die, MFT photo corner die and a Spellbinders postage die.

Used this Splitcoaststampers sketch in landscape orientation for my 6x8 layout design
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Well, that's it from me for this week.

Those in the path of bad weather, stay safe and dry!

And thanks so much for visiting, have a great week ahead!