Another journal page in my "change art journal", with more happy "butterfly flowers" and fitting quote to go with them:
Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
I used a Japanese newspaper as a background, some round butterfly stickers for the flowers, and some patterned paper for the leaves and for some of the cut out words. The rest is all acrylics. This page was such fun to do, and I really like how it turned out (it looks a bit better in reality than in the pictures).
I had some difficulties in taking pictures of this page, and getting the colours right, and I don't really have a photo of the entire page I'm really happy with. So I decided to try out PicMonkey to make a collage. PicMonkey is quite similar to Picnic, which was shut down earlier this year. I usually do all my post processing in Photoshop Elements, including collages, but sometimes, you just want it to be quick, and I love round corners, and in my version of PSE, they're not easy to make.
I'm having the day off today. There'll be some serious scrubbing of the flat, but the rest of the day and weekend will all be dedicated to checkingo out who's come to the party, and lots and lots of painting. Have a wonderful day, and a very happy Paint Party Friday!
Wonderful page and quote! The background newspaper was a great choice.
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Lovely page, so summery and happy!
ReplyDeleteThis is beautiful - I love the colours you've used and what a great quote! Funny enough, I took today off work as well and am catching up with all the PPFers just now before having a lazy day in front of all the tv shows I recorded and haven't seen yet! I do plan to start the next painting for the Summer of Colour so it won't be totally lazy! I'm off now to find out more about PicMonkey!
ReplyDeleteSo lovely, you're into green like me at the moment, it's that summer color. Your art is so very creative I love it, it's such a happy summery piece. Take care and enjoy your week-end!
ReplyDeleteLovely creation page ~ lots of creativity here ~thanks, ^_^ (A Creative Harbor)
ReplyDeleteThese pages are just gorgeous , I love the colors you chose!
ReplyDeleteThis is stunning! I love your flowers and colors and well, all of it. Such fun details!
ReplyDeleteI really like this journal page from the Japanese newspaper to the top layer of butterlies. Wonderful colors and prints! HPPF!
ReplyDeleteWell these are STUNNING!!! I love that you used Japanese text rather than English! I downloaded Photoshop Elements 10 on my PC, but never got beyond the first page of the instruction book! So, I uninstalled it as found it far too complicated! I found Faststone Image Viewer which is free and so much easier to understand! Hats of to you for understanding photoshop! :0)
ReplyDeleteThat green is such a beautiful shade. The Japanese newspaper makes such a great background. Beautiful. Happy PPF
ReplyDeleteLove the green and those awesome butterflies. And the Japanese background is great - I love the look of text in a background but I always get distracted if I can read it.
ReplyDeleteI really love your pages. They always have such detail and beauty!!!
ReplyDeleteIt's very beautiful...and love the green!! Try loading into photobucket...then do the edit on the brightness, hue and even color!! I just love it!!
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I love your pages and this photocollage of them.
ReplyDeleteThe rounded corners of the photos really complement your pages!
And that quote is amazing:
Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
Did you compose that?
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Happy PPF!!
Mary
Mixed-Media Map Art
I really ilk the text you chose--it is an important message--and I'm really impressed with how well the Japanese newspaper, with all its elaborate characters, makes such a complementary background.
ReplyDeleteWhat wonderful colors, and an amazing quote!
ReplyDeletelooks better than this photos?! I think I couldn´t stand that ;) I so so love your page ✿◕ ‿ ◕✿were is the favorite-button ?!
ReplyDeleteI love making these collages! I usually do it the hard way, so I will check out that site. Now, I LOVe this piece seriously Love it. The green is so bold and all the detail. I can't stop staring.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous! I love the colors and it is such a vibrate page! I love the Picmonkey collage! I use Picmonkey also, because I don't have photoshop. Thanks for sharing! Happy PPF!
ReplyDeleteReally neat. So many levels, so much fun!
ReplyDeleteFascinating! and the butterfly flowers are gorgeous! I also like the green lovely background! :)
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