Play it again, Sam

 

Today we welcome a new host at Art Journal Journey, just as we do on the first day of every month.  This month we have a friend I admire.  It is Alison who some of us know as Craftytrog.  Her theme for the entire month of April is Play it again Sam.  For her theme, she wants us to create a journal page based on a favorite movie or song.

Alison gave us a movie with a song in it, so I did the same. 

 

The song, Singing in the Rain, was played during the opening credits of the film by the same name, but Gene Kelly made this song famous when he danced his way through puddles of water during a rainstorm.  Debbie Reynolds sang a portion of it near the end of the film.

 

These cuties represent the three stars of the film who are "singing and dancing in the rain."

The three stars of the film are Donald O'Conner, Debbie Reynolds, and Gene Kelly.

I have my friend Sharon at Foxy Stamping to thank for the images, which include the umbrellas, too.  Without those images, which she stamped (using black Staz-on) and sent me, this first journal page would never have been created.

I computer generated the words to the song, then colored them using a pink watercolor.  I fussy cut, then colored the images in blue and pink using a blue watercolor for the males and a pink watercolor for the female.   I fussy cut the umbrellas, then colored the pink one using a pink highlighter and the blue ones using a blue felt pen which I also used to write the actors' names.  The handles were colored using a gold gel pen.

Alison, 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 Play it again, Sam.

 

We welcome art journal pages that meet the 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, unless they are part of a journal page, and as much as we don't want to, will be forced to delete your entry.  Be aware, we also will be forced to delete your entry if it is not in English and we are unable to translate your blog post.  Hope to see you there soon.  

 

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, with the possible exception of journal art, which seems to take me forever to put together.  

One thing I want to emphasize is, I see people claim they have recycled something, but when you inspect the materials, oftentimes only a small portion of the project has been recycled.  It is my belief that at least 60% and hopefully more of the project should include recycled materials.

Here are a few of the materials I will be using in my journal pages.  You will find sheet music, old calendar pages, paint chip samples, and my substrates will be used file folders instead of card stock unless the cardstock has already been colored in anticipation of a specific journal page.  Look for used security envelopes, candy wrappers, cancelled postage stamps, and maybe even a few Chinese fortunes to make appearances in these journal pages, too.  Unlike in years past, I do not have anything pre-planned this year, with the exception of the gift I made for my friend Sally for her birthday.  

This is Day 1 of 22 and I created a journal page using sheet music I dug out of my neighbor's dumpster (with his permission) and gifted stamped images from my friend Sharon.