Family at play

As you may know by now, Bleubeard and I are hosting Art Journal Journey this month.  My theme is Count your blessings.  I am also joining the challenge at Try it on Tuesday, where they want you to use book pages, newspapers, magazine images, etc.  Granted, there are no book pages or newspapers in this entry, but there is a sheet of old telephone book page.  

I believe family time is important.  I also believe my family and this family may not look like yours.

Regardless, they are a family, and a family at play.  Too bad I smeared the words before they were dry.

My goal was to leave as much of the background as possible, so two red rectangles that matched the heavy card stock I used for the sentiment, were the only embellishments.

The focal image was cut from a decade old Dover publication, more than likely out of print.

I felt the lacy embellishment still allowed the background to show through.

Originally white,

I gave it a bit of color using dye ink.

I'm sure you can tell this is a resist technique, where I placed Vaseline/petroleum jelly on parts of the telephone book page.  I then painted the entire page with red acrylic paint.  I allowed the red paint to dry, then added Vaseline/petroleum jelly in various spots on top of the red paint.  Next, I added yellow acrylic paint and when it was dry, used several baby wipes to remove the Vaseline/petroleum jelly from the page.

Materials used include a page from a phone book, two colors of acrylic craft paint, Vaseline/petroleum jelly, three pieces of heavy red card stock, white gel pen, Dover publication image, and white lace colored with red dye ink.

Bleubeard, my adorable co-host and I are thrilled you joined us today as we have been blessed with family play time which we are sharing at Art Journal Journey as well as Try it on Tuesday where we created art using a page from an old phone book.  We hope to see you both places, too.