I trust you have had a special time over Christmas too..
I just had to pop into my scrap room and grab a bit of scrap time to de-stress leading up to Christmas week.. I am sure you are all nodding in agreement!! hehe.. So I had better get them up before the end of the month.. and EEKK the end of the year too... !!
I came across THIS BLOG - OLW and the word was RELEASE and I thought I would do an art journal page, art journalling can be so freeing and it is always fun to watch the pages develop.. I did have a bit of a plan though for this word RELEASE.. I kept thinking about the poem..." if you love something.. set it free... if it comes back it is yours, if it doesn't it never was...."
And I went with the inspiration picture from PIXELS AND PAPER which allow their challenge to be combined with another, and I used the colors from this amazing picture..
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVcz1QuZ0IKODDMwGHaLo2Z6WuRDPX9IDZo50e1C2CozoNU75WJev4F8SLo3NR0vIHE2CmrYhfiUvKYVH6nJkokslbZOdRbMam9v5piVFHK9M0ZBc_LnlWib4lbfmOrDvf84KcmFiLhuvD/s1600/December.jpg)
closer views of the texture..lots of layers..
Release.. if you love something.. set it free..
And just a little tip.. for the hands and dove, I printed out the images and then put some acetate on top of the image and traced it out.. there was no way I could draw on top of all the texture with all the lumps and bumps.. I used clear helmars glue to stick it down.. worked well!!
And over at SCRAP THE BOYS this month they have a fabulous sketch.. I have used some really old Kaiser papers and a photo of my son when he was 2.. (Next year he is 30.....how did that happen...??)
The sketch..
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSFo3heqEL0f2jeSA83CT7JTwqg0IRK85a2FOl9Kgsjhi2nYEgWU5fbCmAVO-uG357E9NQzAzKg2wXkDNcTIpqOmfjXpr0iIr6R1anKD9mC_rLrioeExiXv1qYa3BrbePQKhHdXMPYn-Y/s320/sk.jpg)
Love you to the moon and back...
And I needed a card for my Dd who turned 14 yesterday so I made one using the sketch from FEELING SKETCHY #111 which looks like..
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIG9jnh7kKh5vvztJKH4D1Rch2meZB3LydWIiP9UMMUq7EbNDDfacnibqQxZRK4JyS0tFgrTHHxY1zWk8sgYKUdC7vLMne-69XLzVbk4qUVJBF3jtxjIKvp1dYfDq_ebJo1Cp2aayesk0/s1600/111.jpg)
(The stamp in the back ground is one of Gabrielle's)
Thanks so much for taking a moment to drop by, I hope you have a wonderful week.. If I am able I may get another challenge done for this month, but if I dont... then....I wish you all a .......
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7iJ1Jy6eRQfBFk2OiYQAwQUe4GjPFGCnbZ8G_F3lbI69e_qhXTKkfPzaC3AyFb_-cYjuT7jrZFEqHJ-ghGDpA46-ZCBEflK_-Rm3-Ao96Wqe-mkMV2NUqOEgndVHXd_TeCO0HGZy2a8Y/s1600/NewYear_Numbers6.jpg)