Twas the night before Christmas . . .

a rare quiet day.

creating my own magic.

 

wishing all of my blog readers their very own

 magical christmas holiday

bursting forth with laughter, love and beauty.

art journal every day ~ december 6, 2013

i had decided to share some of the background work that i've been doing within my art journal pages today and then as a last minute (much needed) diversion i took my background image into photoshop and created a digital art journal page with it.


the top shot is of the backgrounded page and is a piece of cardboard from a cereal box that has been painted with a white acrylic paint.
i added:

• a piece of calendar page
• a white paper doily
• dylusions spray inks
• a stamped image/sepia & light green ink
• lots of glue 

i'll keep adding to the page but for now . . .  

this is the digital art page. i added several layers of my own photos and textures. i played around with the colors, opacities and just generally had a good time immersing myself in the process.
it turned out a bit dark but i think i still like it. at any rate, it felt good to create without any other purpose in mind.


i am linking up with  Art Journal Every Day at Balzer Designs . 
the very talented Malita Bloomer of Artful Fancies by Malita Bloomer is guest posting today and i can hardly wait to see the pages that other art journalers have posted.
feel free to link over and see some of the mixed media eye candy for yourself.


i do have some stitched goodies to share but they will have to wait until another day.


recent gifts include:

• good friends happily sharing their smiles and time
• warm wooly socks on my feet
• the generosity and kindness of other bloggers
• surprise packages in the mail
• long chats with my mom and daughter over the thanksgiving holiday
• the (always reliable) comfort of creating