Oceans

By now, many of you know Art Journal Journey's host this month is Alison (aka Craftytrog). Alison has chosen the theme Pockets and Tags.

Recently, my foodie friend and junk mail enabler, gave me a bunch of junk  scraps  goodies I could use for my art.  One of those was a map of the world from one of her charitable foundations she supports.  Even though there was "advertising" their charity work on the map, I used it to make these tags and a pocket. It appears there isn't much charitable work this group does in the oceans.

I tried every way I could to get the compass portion of the map onto a tag, to no avail.  I was glad, because I realized I could turn it into a pocket on my page.

I had to add the word "OCEAN" to two of the tags, because the words were too far from their given ocean.

This was the extra tag that I placed in the pocket.

I tried to get bits of land included with each of the oceans.

For this page, I started with a sheet of 110 lb cardstock I colored using Staz-on reinker and 91% isopropyl alcohol.  Once dry (which took about four minutes) I added the tags, which I had made using die cut tags glued behind parts of each ocean.  I outlined each tag using a blue felt pen, then added a hole reinforcer to each tag.  Finally, I added the pocket using double sided tape.

Thanks so very much for spending time with me today, and I hope to also see you at Art Journal Journey.