Electrifying

Since I have a few hours between Monday Murals and T Time, I thought I would share this Art Journal Journey entry using Jo's theme which is Texture.

Although I have no step-out photos, I called this

Electrifying.

I used a stencil to create a bit of texture, but it doesn't show that well on the white handmade paper.

For a bit more texture, I added the heart I cut from a piece of card stock and placed behind the hand.  Had I been thinking, I would have placed it inside the hand, where it looks like it would have fit perfectly.

I was fairly happy with how I fussy cut the electrified man, but I had all kinds of trouble getting the image to stick to my handmade paper.

Another look at the stencil I used, which I loved because the images went from small to large.

For this page, which I created in my Scraps altered book, I first laid down a sheet of handmade paper.  I colored part of it with red shimmering mist, but the shimmer was soaked up by the handmade paper.  The focal image came from one of my trade magazines I receive each month.  Once I saw it, I knew I had to use it.  I love how the red and blue work so well together with the white.  Each of the letters came from various magazines.  I used a glue stick to adhere the focal image and the letters to the page, but almost gave up twice because the glue simply didn't like the misted paper.

I'm really grateful you stopped by today. Your visit means the world to me.  I hope to also see you at Art Journal Journey.