The Stars

 

Today I am once again joining my friend Valerie of Bastelmania, who is our host this month at Art Journal Journey.  Valerie's theme is When One Door Closes, Another One Opens.

It's obvious this is a home of the stars.

It's obvious. Stars live behind this door.

This is the star-studded door.

You can see them through the windows, too.

For this page, I started with a sheet of 110 lb cardstock that I colored using Staz-on and 91% isopropyl alcohol.  I designed the house that I cut out of scrapbook paper. I created the door from a piece of used file folder and added it to the house.  Next, I added the sticker stars to the house and the wooden star I tried to color gold to the door.  I also drew a star for the door knob.  Finally, I computer generated the words that I added, then drew around using a blue gel pen.

Thanks for joining Bleubeard and me today.  We hope to see you at Art Journal Journey with your own take on When One Door Closes, Another One Opens. You still have a few days to share your art with us.

To finish my Art Journal Advent Calendar, 

the prompt for Day 22 was Looking back.

I've provided a few close-ups. 

I included Boxing Day from 2020 because it was part of looking back before Christmas, 2021 and after Christmas, 2020.

If you've been around my blog at all this past year, you read about and saw many photos of me removing the bamboo that had totally invaded and taken over my back yard

just in time for the Neighborhood Clean-up.

After the clean-up, I held a party at my house for National Night Out.  I was also harvesting a great deal of herbs at this time, too.

I also forgot Bleubeard's birthday, although I remembered to get my Covid booster.  I stamped some and used a lot of shiny, glittery, gold, hard-to-photograph stickers on this page.

Day 23's prompt was Winter Wonderland.

The cats were hiding in, around, or behind the trees.  The trees and the poinsettia were stamped.  I used both a green gel pen and a silver Krylon pen to write the words by hand (and I can't even read my own lousy handwriting).

Day 24's prompt is Word for 2022.  I usually have more time to pick my word.  I have my word and I have started the page, but I didn't have time to complete it because Scott and I spent the 24th and 25th together.  I'll share it on Wednesday, and I will also place it on my blog's right sidebar, too.  After all, I will have it for a full year.