Music soothes the soul

Because Bleubeard and I are hosting Art Journal Journey this month, I wanted to create something inspired by music.  I'm also joining Moo-Mania and More whose theme this fortnight is sheet music.

I am so blessed to have a musician friend (see my right sidebar) who has introduced me to several big name rock stars.  I didn't get giddy, but enjoyed meeting each one of them.  My friend Joseph knows many names in the music business because he has been a musician since before I met him while we were both at Wichita State University.

I love using vintage sheet music in my art.   I especially like to watch it peek out from behind the security envelope windows.

I loved this image I found in a book I picked up at the art sale last year. 

Of course I had to add the sentiment.  

Blog friends and followers keep telling me I need to use my own handwriting more often, so I am trying to do that.

Of course, I don't want that to take away from the lovely sheet music

or the sewing that makes me want to sing with joy.

For this page, I started with two very different security envelopes and sewed them together.  I placed vintage sheet music behind the three security windows, then added the focal image and the sentiment, also written on a strip of another security envelope, which reads "Music soothes the soul."  I then sewed the assembly to a sheet of 110 lb. card stock and trimmed it after I sewed it in place.  Every element was sewed using variegated blue thread in which the various stitch lengths were varied.

Bleubeard and I are honored you joined us today at Art Journal Journey, where my theme is count your blessings, as well as Moo-Mania and More whose theme this fortnight is sheet music.  We're delighted you stopped by and we'll meet you at both sites today.