It's the last day of 2021 and also the last day of Valerie's theme at Art Journal Journey "When one door closes another one opens". I have only managed to do my weekly Thursday Journal page linked to the theme apart from two in a small journal - one shown yesterday and this one today.
This one uses the image bought for me by my bff after she had seen a Christmas card I had received and fallen in love with from another friend in America. I am thinking that this is an imaginary scene of Bethlehem. Several houses have windows showing lights coming from them and there are some doors (coloured green) so I am hoping Valerie and the moderators at AJJ will accept this as another entry.
Again it is in my small 4" x 6" journal. I first of all coloured the page in Broken China Distress Ink and then stamped the image on a piece of cardstock, coloured it in with my Zig pens and tore it down one side. I wanted some bright gold paper and was convinced I had some somewhere but could not find it. However I found some text where I had embossed the edges in gold. I just used the edges tearing close to the text so that it did not show. For the other side I used some paper that I had printed on my Gelli Plate long long ago and tore that also.
I tried various images, Tim Holtz Paper Dolls, Stars, Flowers etc but nothing seemed to work alongside the image in the bottom right hand corner so I decided to leave it until something caught my eye at another date. I would like to find the word "Believe" in the same lovely text that my friend used on her card - that is probably what I am searching for in my mind.
So here I am, wishing you all a Happy, Peaceful and Healthy New Year and entering this into Art Journal Journey on the last day of the year.
