Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Silhouettes of Life…

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More pages, filling fast…I just can’t stop!

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Quotes and beautiful images found seem to be my fuel for this first {of many!} art journals…

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A beautiful Victorian lady’s hand holding a fan…such lovely ephemera to be found--a spot left unglued at the top to hold a special message…

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Charles Dickens is one who never fails to inspire me…

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…and a bit of the hand-doodling I’ve always done coming in handy now…Flowers drawn freely around the border of vintage sheet music, then filled-in later with my pearlescent watercolors…perfect?  Absolutely not! {and I wouldn’t have it any other way!}

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And I’m having SO much fun working on my penmanship again…something I’ve loved to do since I was a child—but in these computer days, the skills with a pen get a little rusty, don’t they?!

Besides quotes and pretty found things, I’m finding spaces on pages to highlight some of my favorite of all things…and this time, Silhouettes

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Timeless beauty so simply created.  A home hobby started in the 18th century to capture the image of family, friends & sweethearts—long before the ability  to photograph the face of a loved one would arrive on the scene…

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Two more pages filled…you can see the evidence of other pages before and after that I haven’t shared yet…Soon I’ll have to remove the pages from their spiral ties and find a new, more expandable  binding—they need more space to grow!

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I sure hope you think about giving art journaling a try…From page to page and doodle to doodle, you just never know what’s going to come out of you next--I really haven’t had this much fun in years!

See you soon with something new…

Julie

(Silhouette cut using my Cricut & the “Heritage” cartridge;  lacy paper insert from Crafty Secrets’ “Creating with Vintage Patterns” CD and pretty stamped border from their “Artsy Banner” stamp set)