Travel

It is time for another challenge between myself and BożenA and our theme is "Travel". It could be any form of travel, both physical or metaphorical. Although I chose the theme this time and I did know what route I wanted to take with it, it took me a while to find some inspiration for how I was going to show what I had in my mind. But it was year end and such times come with many other distractions and so in general, my crafting table was not busy.

Anyway, back to our project. I decided to create another page in my art journal for this one.

My thought was about the road we all travelled this last year - the one called Life. We all are on it at various places and we all started and one day the road will end. So how we walk it is so important for ourselves and those around us. 

I had spent time looking for a digi that depicted what I wanted, but could not find one. So decided to go with die cuts. The girl is parts of a Spellbinders die set and some circles from the Hero Arts infinity die set.

I prepped the page on my disc bound journal by taping it to my glass mat. This served to hold it steady and also create the white border. I hand drew the path and the horizon line and then colored them with my Arteza brush markers and water. The path is stony as you can see, life's path is often that way. But there is grass on the sides and flowers to smell along the way. The sky is done with Distress Oxide ink brushed on with some inexpensive make-up brushes over a stencil shape cut out of cardstock.

I created the girl by cutting the various parts out of watercolor paper and colored them with my Arteza brush markers and Prismacolor colored pencils. Details were added with a gel pen.

I completed the page by adding the word Life cut with my Quickcuts dies and the rest of the sentiment was printed and cut into strips. I added a die cut bow cut out of purple cardstock to the girl's hat and coated it with Wink of Stella.

As always, I am excited to see what BożenA has done for her project on the theme of Travel. You can take a look by clicking through on the link and please leave her a comment while you are there.

Supplies Used

Prismacolor Pencils	Signo Uniball	Peacock Feathers	Wink of Stella
Circle Inifinity Dies	Spring Flutter	Platinum 6	Craft Tweezers
Aleene's Tacky Glue

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