Lots of Art Time

 Everyone hanging in there? This whole lock down thing is getting old... but, we have to keep going. If it's a nice day I'm outside, but if not my time is spent watching you tube videos and playing in my art room A LOT. Not that I always get much done. Sometimes I'm just gessoing blank pages in my journals when the inspiration doesn't strike. My time is spent also doing the usual household chores, cooking, baking, and reading too. And on weekend evenings hubby and I look for a few  movies to watch. How do you fill all your time?

 Here is the full journal page of  the snippet above. It's meant for Art Journal Journey (theme is Geometric Shapes), the Simon Says Monday Challenge (theme is-Not A Card), and Paint Party Friday:

 The background was painted with watered down acrylics, then stencilled with 2 Tim Holtz stencils- Linen, and Numbers. The shapes were cut from Dina Wakley's Collage Collective, stitched, and/or edged with black ink. The sentiment is collage tissue words -also Dina Wakley.

 A tag meant for Tag Tuesday (anything goes):

 Yes, more Dina Wakley-lol! Collage Collective, Faces Collage Tissue and Words Collage Tissue. Red heart was sitting on my desk and just happened to fit perfectly in the leaf. I also used a black Fude pen, blue Posca pen, a few dry chalks, and Archival Jet Black ink.

 Time for a break, so let's join Bleubeard and Elizabeth and the gang at T Stands For Tuesday. Bring along your favorite beverage related photo and join us!

 Sunday I made homemade pancakes and topped them with the cinnamon/apple/cranberry topping I shared in this post. You can also find it under the "Recipes" tab below my header. I doubled the recipe(minus the quinoa) so I could use it for pancakes and other things too. Yum!

I have a few more junk journal pages to share also:

 For the pages in my two junk journals I am sticking to using found items in my ephemera bins mostly- just to use things up.I'm also trying to work more quickly in these books too. The madonna is an old stamp - part of a cube (anyone remember cube stamps??) .This had been stamped and edged in gold and in my bin all ready to be used finally:) The feather is a tissue paper piece that I embellished with a black and whit gel pen. Sentiment is a Tim Holtz sticker. I also added a bit of recycled dryer sheet below the stamped piece.

 Another page in the same junk journal. Collage fodder and transparency bit along with a vintage button, paper flower with a tiny button, and Tim Holtz word stickers.

And that's it for me for this post. I hope the weather is cooperating for you wherever you are, and that you are keeping well, and managing well too. Virtual hugs!

" Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference."       Virginia Satir