Books Blog Hop at Artistic Outpost

The February blog hop theme is "Books" at Artistic Outpost and with so many lovely stamps sets that fit the theme, I decided to add to my newly started Travel Journal with a couple of pages! For more inspiration and great art, be sure to visit all of the talented DT.

Terry (me), Shari, Tracy, Gerrie, Kate, Lisa

I have already admitted that I am on shaky ground where journaling is concerned and am not sure what I am doing. For this being my journal with my life, I decided to go with the flow and make it mine and in my style. Over Valentine's Day we went to Portland, OR where my daughter and grandson now live. Not that February is the time of year to visit the City of Roses (and lots of rain), but Holly's birthday is also in that month and that weekend worked out for all of us. As it turned out, the weather was totally gorgeous with no rain at all!

The background started with painting on  Distress Stains (Broken China, Peeled Paint, Vintage Photo, Walnut Stain) and spritzing water to blend. Next I added texture using modeling paste and also Distress inks through various stencils.

Using the Airplane from Industrial Backgrounds our flight begins and using various words from Huck Finn, so appropriate for traveling, where stamped in Black Archival.

I cut apart the Alpha block stamp letters from the Secretary Pool for PORTLAND. Next to finish the on route page, I painted the Alpha Part, added some rubs, colored and cracked my world!

The next page was designed for our arrival.

The roses were cut from Tim's Wallflower paper, fussy cut and crackled as after all Portland is the City of Roses.

The tickets were cut, inked and I added some Broken China through a stencil. The sentiment is from the Typography collection.

When in Portland there are many wonderful restaurants and using the new release The Baker, I stamped her on a 7 Gypsies tag, which of course was inked first and stamped in Coffee Archival. I water colored in some of pans for interest. I wanted her to pop a little, so kept ink away from her and the bread dough. 

On the back I will note the restaurants we did visit. 

Finished it off with a few butterflies and a lattice trim stained and crackled. 

Hope you enjoyed my little travel journal piece and I do thank you for stopping by. Have a wonderful day!

Born Super Stars

Hope you all are doing fabulously and getting ready for the weekend! This tag I am sharing in detail at Artistic Outpost, so if you would like more information and photos, click the link! Also the October challenge "Show us your AO Art"

This tag was made for a 9 year-old boy and in fact we will be going to the birthday party on Saturday for a little while. I did not want to make anything too elaborate, but wanted something a little special.

Thank you for stopping by today and having a look!

Huck Finn

Happy Monday and I hope you all had a wonderful weekend!  Over the weekend, I received my first ever order of Pan Pastels and could not wait to play!  Wish I had ordered some of the tools with handles, but that will happen next time!  Interesting how projects come together as I was looking at the "Quote and Quotables" sentiment and decided to make a somewhat stormy sky background with my new PP. 

Of course I knew that the ship in the "Huck Finn" collections would look awesome in the background, so I lined this up stamped with Black Archival, allowing some room for that adorable Huck!  The young lad was stamped and then colored with Distress Inks and fussy cut.  I decided Huck would go so solo this time, so cut around the pup!  Stamped and torn the words and added a compass.

This will be linked to:
Simon Says Stamp and Show: Passport to Fun
Pan Pastel: Dreams

Thank you for visiting me today and as always your comments are so appreciated!  Just a reminder that there is still a couple of days to join in the "April Referral Program" at Artistic Outpost!   Enjoy the week! 

Huck Finn Travels to Bloggers Challenge and SSSS!!

I know, long time no blog.  Trying to keep the arm less active, but my new stamp sets arrived yesterday from Artistic Outpost and that was that!  I did get two of the plates precut, so no strain there!  When I saw the new releases, I had to have them all!  At Bloggers Challenge, Lisa, has us doing a sketch challenge and Simon Says Stamp and Show has us Distressing!  Today, Huck Finn was calling out to play and I thought he would work so well with the new papers from Tim Holtz line!  So what do you think?  Do the papers work well with the stamped image and sentiment?  I also used some words from the set along the background paper.  Oh, I colored the image with chalks and then did a light matte spray to set.  All edges are distress, because we like that look!

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend.  Thank you for the visit!