This is no April Fool's Day

 

Today we welcome a new host at Art Journal Journey.  Originally, it was supposed to be Eileen of The Artful Crafter.  Her theme was Inspired By which fit in nicely with my posts this month.  However, as many of you know by now, Eileen died last month, so Erika, aka BioArtGal and Chris, aka Pearshapedcrafting stepped in and dedicated this month to Eileen, who we were Inspired By.  Please join me this month as we pay homage to, and are inspired by, Eileen. 

As many of you long time visitors know, for 22 days in April, beginning with today and leading up to Earth Day, or what I call bEARTHday, I recycle, reuse, reduce, rethink, re-invent, redesign, re-craft, recover, restore, rebuild, revamp, reclaim, and/or re-purpose something to keep it out of the landfill.  I hope you will stop by each day and see what I have planned.  I've tried to keep most of my art simple this year, except with the possible exception of journal art, which seems to take me forever to put together.  I have a few simple crafts planned that anyone can make.  After all, if I can make it, so can you.

Back in December of last year, Art Journal Journey's host Tracey's theme was The Meaning Of.  I wasn't especially happy with the spread because I didn't want to show sadness over the holiday season.  I put the completed journal page away and didn't think about it until about a week ago.  I decided to pull it out and revamp it. 

I removed the words "What is the meaning of sadness?" from the page

and created the words "How could this happen?"

The bottom half of the page is the same as before.  In case you can't read it, it reads:

Mommy said Whiskers ran away, even after I gave her my Christmas hat.

This is Whiskers and her hat.

For this page, I began with red and green handmade shimmering mists.  I cannot take credit for Whiskers.  It's actually part of a painting created by my shopaholic friend Kathy, who actually drew herself holding her cat, Snowball.  She didn't want the drawing anymore and gave it to me, along with other images she had drawn she no longer wanted.  I tore around the piece and used the part I thought would go well with the little girl I found in a very old and crumbly book.  That's why her arm is torn.  That happened when I applied glue stick to the image.  All images and words were added using a glue stick.

Of course, this is also a show of sadness for the loss of one of our blogging community.  I'm so glad I repurposed this entry because it is so fitting for starting this month we dedicate to Eileen's memory.

This is Day 1 of 22 and I repurposed a journal page by changing the wording and attempting to repair the little girl's arm.

Thank you beyond belief for visiting today.  Erika, Chris, Valerie, Yvonne, Bleubeard, and I are delighted you joined us and hope to see you this month at Art Journal Journey with your own take of Inspired By (Eileen).   

We welcome art journal pages that meet the size and theme requirements, altered book pages, canvases, loose or stand alone pages including fabric, and digital art.  We do not allow cards, tags, index cards, ATCs, or ATCoins, and as much as we don't want to, will be forced to delete your entry.