Fishy

 

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You may know by now that Bleubeard and I are hosting Art Journal Journey this month and our themes are Collage Fodder, Food and Drink, or both. 

This journal page seems to be a bit fishy.

It's a collage of fish grills and fish.

A mark or two,

a bit of sewing, 

and a bit of fussy cutting led to this fishy tale.

I started by spritzing two handmade shimmering mists on 110 lb cardstock.  I cut information on fish grills from the book of kitchen tools.  I glued some lovely fish to the top set of words, then added a circle using a brown gel pen.  For the second set of words, I fussy cut some fish and adhered them to the words using a glue stick.  I sewed the two sets of words to the page using purple variegated thread. I added the title using stickers, and finished by adding the date.

Bleubeard and I are grateful you visited today and hope to see you at Art Journal Journey with your own take on Collage Fodder, Food and Drink, or both. 

 

  We are also joining AEDM. 

  I plan to share weekly updates of this challenge each Thursday, but tomorrow is my Second Thursday Tutorial.  However, we started the month on a Tuesday, so we actually gained a day this week.

I'm sorry this is a bit hard to read.  It's late at night and I took it right off my computer.  I don't want to keep printing new pages each week.  For those who don't know, Treasure Trovember is run by Kelly at Collage Scraps.

My page is slightly larger than my scanner bed.  Next week, I'll photograph it during the day.

A few words are in order.  The first day we were supposed to create a grid of rectangles and squares using black and white collage fodder.  I decided to use book pages.  It took over four hours just to create the background.  I almost gave up, thinking this challenge was going to be a time buster that I didn't need.

However, I decided to stick it out one more day.  Needless to say, you can see the things we need to add each day and they are all practically at my fingertips.  I had to hunt for something fancy (the wrapped bouquet of flowers), but that was it.

 

It isn't too late for you to join.  Kelly has sites on Instagram and Facebook, but I am NOT on either of those social media sites.