Pack your bags

I want to begin by wishing my dear friend Annette (Voodoo Vixen) a very happy birthday.  Next, I want to apologize for being offline.  Due to circumstances beyond my control, I have scheduled a few posts, but will not be around to link them.  Please forgive me, because I don't like to be  gone, and like it even less when I can't visit and leave comments.  Now back to the scheduled post.  

Once again I'm joining Erika at Bio Art Gal this month's host at Art Journal Journey with her theme New Year, New Adventures.    I'm also joining Moo Mania & More with their theme Welcome Somebody / Something / The New Year.

Whether we choose to admit it or not, we all have baggage.  Words we wish we hadn't spoken, actions we wished we had never taken, relationships/friendships that ended in disaster.

But this is a great time to get rid of that baggage.  It's a new year, a new beginning,

so let's pack our bags, hopefully neatly,

then head for a new adventure to parts unknown.

For this page, I began scraping paint onto my Challenges altered book using a faux credit card.  I intentionally left a few parts unpainted, then grabbed one of my new stencils and added the circles that have ridges around them.  Next, I added several large circles using a metallic and a white Gelly Roll pen.  The computer generated text, "Leave your baggage, but pack your bags, then head for parts unknown" was colored using watercolor (water soluble) crayons.  I used both watercolor crayons and metallic pens to color the bag and its contents.

Thanks for joining me today at Art Journal Journey.  And thanks for your visit and continued support of my art.  I am very grateful to each of you.