Second Thursday tutorial is off and Rain's Thursday Art Date is on

Today I had intended to walk you through how I make handmade paper.  However, as I was starting a new batch of pulp, my blender began smoking.  I let it cool down, then tried again at the lowest speed possible, but it still smoked.  Now I must get another blender or figure out why this one is smoking.  Until then, my handmade paper making project is on hold.

Instead, I'll be joining Erika, who many of you know as Bio Art Gal and is also this month's host at Art Journal Journey.  Her theme is When It's Hot.  And since Rain's Thursday Art Date this week is Fairy Tales and Nursery Rhymes, I put this together.  After all, this is definitely a fairy tale in my books.
By now, I suspect you can guess I created this in my Scraps Altered Book.

Everything

including the circle of playing card,

the found words,

the focal images,

and of course the message,

hand written on a piece of leftover paste paper were included in the mix.

For this page, I started by laying down more pale green latex house paint I got at my local Household Hazardous Waste Swap and Shop.  When dry, I knew I wanted to use those HOT LIPS that would be the focus of the spread.  I then went searching for other items that would either compliment or coordinate with the colors in the lip image I outlined in purple ink.  Somehow, I felt the man who looked like he stepped out of a fairy tale was the perfect addition, even though he didn't exactly fit the color scheme.  The lips were from a gift card, the words were in my found words box, the man, the Queen circle (left over from a swap), and the green and yellow square were also in my scraps box.  I needed a way to include the sentiment, so cut a piece of handmade (by me) paste paper and wrote it using my Sharpie ink pen.

Thanks so very much for joining Bleubeard and me today, and we hope to also see you at both Art Journal Journey and Rain's Thursday Art Date.  A really unusual TAD entry for me today and Bleubeard slept through most of it.