Sailing Thru Summer

   Still managing to get art and blogging done but that will wind down awhile as I get into a few weeks of beach time/planning and art deadlines. First up is another journal page I created using gelli plate prints (determined to lower that pile so I can make more:):)

  This was created with the Mix It Monthly theme in mind which for this month is "Sailboat/Boat". The one sail is a recycled postage stamp but the rest is gelli print papers. The UM stamp (source unknown) reads "no hour with the ocean is ever wasted...ever".

 The challenge at The Mixed Media Monthly Challenge Blog is to use household items for mark making in your art. Here's what I grabbed to use on my page:

Clockwise from top- corrugated cardboard scrap, a wine cork with string tied around it, mesh from the top of a crate of Clementines, bottle cap, the ripped spiral bound edge of watercolor paper, cardboard tube, prescription bottle(the top is round and the bottom squared-double duty!), and makeup sponges.

 This is the background after the painting and mark making:

 And here's what I ended up with:

 

                          I flipped the page to use horizontally after spying this stencil on my table. 

 Products: acrylic paints; Dylusion Ink Sprays (the splatters); Mini Silhouette Script 6" x 6" stencil (Balzer Designs); paper flowers (Recollections); rhinestones ( Nicole Crafts).

 I am also linking to  Art Journal Journey (Flower Power theme); Paint Party Friday; Art Journal Every Day; Creative Every Day; and the Simon Monday Challenge ( About A Face theme). Looking forward to see what you all have been up to this week!

                                         "What is art but a way of seeing?"  Thomas Berger