Over the Rainbow

 

Today we begin a new month and that means a new host at Art Journal Journey.  I'd like to give a warm welcome to one of Bleubeard's and my fellow co-administrators, Chris of Pearshapedcrafting.  Chris has decided to take on All Kinds of Weather as her theme for November.

Recently, Tamara Laporte hosted a taster series advertising her upcoming Life Book 2022.  One of her contributions was called The Rainbow of Joy.  This is my puny interpretation of her lesson.  However, I thought it would be an excellent first entry for Chris's theme this month.  

 

The rainbow is definitely the star of this journal page.

It even deserved a frame.

 

I took a line out of my favorite horror movie as the title of this entry, as well as the title of today's post.

I began this page by creating the rainbow based on what I remembered from the Life Book 2022 Taster page.  After the paper dried, I sewed black cardstock using orange thread around the outside of the rainbow I created using watercolors.  Next, I created the background on 110 lb cardstock, with my recent go-to background of a few drops of pink Staz-on reinker mixed with 91% isopropyl alcohol.  I then computer generated the title using watercolor pencils.  I sewed the sentiment to black cardstock using the same orange thread.  For the assembly, I attached assemblies using glue dots.  For a final embellishment, I added the star, which was echoed in the black ink stars I created in the rainbow.

 

Thank you ever so much for visiting today.  Chris, Erika, 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 on All Kinds of Weather.

Some of you may have noticed we have changed the "Dreaded Rules" a bit at Art Journal Journey starting today.  We now allow mini journals and journal pages, but they must look like a journal and not a card.  Please be aware, we still do NOT allow cards or tags.  There are tons of challenge blogs that accept those.  We gladly welcome art journal pages that meet the theme requirements, altered book pages, canvases, loose or stand alone pages including fabric, and digital art.  To reiterate, we still do not allow cards, tags, index cards, ATCs, or ATCoins, unless they are part of a journal page, and as much as we don't want to, will be forced to delete your entry.  

 

I'm also joining Leah Piken Kolidas, our delightful host, again this year for Art Every Day Month or AEDM.  I have joined every November for 12 years.  This will be my 13th year creating art each day.  For Day 1, I introduced a new host at Art Journal Journey and created a journal page.