Art Journal Journey

I wish it were all as easy as that.... another ATC for the Altered Aspirations Challenge at ScrapBookGraphics. This one is again double sided, and I will round those corners with a punch when it is printed. For full credits, please go HERE . Everything is by Lisa from Studio Gypsy. I am working on Art Journal Caravan stuff... it's just not necassarily stuff I want to post online...and once I've blocked out what I need to, well, the picture makes no sense...kwim? But I hope to have something to show you, shortly!

For this week's Altered Artspirations Challenge. Heavy on symbolism...I'm really pleased with how this turned out! definately a back and front here ;-) For credits pleased see HERE

I enjoyed making this one. It is for the Altered Artspirations challenge at Scrapbook Graphics  It is, at this time a double sided ATC, but I may actually end up making different backs for these and have 2 ATC's. Click HERE for full credits, but I can tell you that most of the elements are from Holliwood's new 'Love and War' kit. The weeks are busy! I hope to be back soon with my Art Journal Caravan pages (I have 2 outstanding...ack!)

I'm busy with painting the bg for the Week 02 page...it is a much harder page for me to get done...so here is the Week 03 one, with the key word "Mend" You can see the gallery image here. Everything I used is by Gypsy Couture : 'Spunky Explosion'; 'Daydreamer'; 'Change of Heart'; Glitter Stamp Alpha; 'Tommy's Garage'; Country Christmas'; 'HoHo Retro'; Krafts Alphas & Grommet Flowers (both coming 21/01)

So I heard this random fact on the radio this morning about '40 new species being discovered every day'. Hmmmmm I was going to comment but  had not had my coffe at that point HA! so I decided to let it be.... They did not however say anything about the new 'species' in the ScrapbookGraphics Altered Artspiration Gallery... I 'discovered' this catepillar and added it to the gallery listings. My week has not quite gone the way I had hoped (busier than I wanted to be) so I have not done the pages to for the journey yet. Those will be done shortly.

Here it is : the word that has been on my heart for this year : FOCUS. I had intended to add more words to my page, but realized that many of the words would need their own page, so I stuck to just adding the final sentence that summed my thoughts up : "Be ruthless in achieving well chosen objectives." I did the bg in Artrage in very much the same way as I would in my studio, then I took it into CS3 and played with a few brushes (Thao Cosgrove) and added the type. I enjoy having the option of working in both programmes, between them they offer amazing versatility.