Open! Open! Open!

It is a "This and That" blog hop with Artistic Outpost and I chose The Baker and Windows and Doors to play along! Be sure to visit the entire team for more fabulous inspiration!.

Tracy, Gerrie, Kate, and Lisa. 

You have about a week left to join in the monthly "Show Us Your AO Art" challenge, so hope you are inspired by all of us to share your AO inky greatness!

I just love this little Baker and I don't know if I told you or not, but my Grandson in Portland is in the process of opening up his own little "Food Cart" and that was the inspiration behind my card.

All images were stamped in Black Archival, inked with Antique Linen, Vintage Photo and colored with Stampin Up markers.  The background Brick Texture Fade was inked over in Fired Brick (of course) and a little Vintage Photo and then I applied Black Archival directly to the embossing folder to set in the grout! I always give a quick spray of matte sealer to all my inked images.

Thank you so much for visiting today and I hope you have enjoyed your visit!

Books Blog Hop at Artistic Outpost

The February blog hop theme is "Books" at Artistic Outpost and with so many lovely stamps sets that fit the theme, I decided to add to my newly started Travel Journal with a couple of pages! For more inspiration and great art, be sure to visit all of the talented DT.

Terry (me), Shari, Tracy, Gerrie, Kate, Lisa

I have already admitted that I am on shaky ground where journaling is concerned and am not sure what I am doing. For this being my journal with my life, I decided to go with the flow and make it mine and in my style. Over Valentine's Day we went to Portland, OR where my daughter and grandson now live. Not that February is the time of year to visit the City of Roses (and lots of rain), but Holly's birthday is also in that month and that weekend worked out for all of us. As it turned out, the weather was totally gorgeous with no rain at all!

The background started with painting on  Distress Stains (Broken China, Peeled Paint, Vintage Photo, Walnut Stain) and spritzing water to blend. Next I added texture using modeling paste and also Distress inks through various stencils.

Using the Airplane from Industrial Backgrounds our flight begins and using various words from Huck Finn, so appropriate for traveling, where stamped in Black Archival.

I cut apart the Alpha block stamp letters from the Secretary Pool for PORTLAND. Next to finish the on route page, I painted the Alpha Part, added some rubs, colored and cracked my world!

The next page was designed for our arrival.

The roses were cut from Tim's Wallflower paper, fussy cut and crackled as after all Portland is the City of Roses.

The tickets were cut, inked and I added some Broken China through a stencil. The sentiment is from the Typography collection.

When in Portland there are many wonderful restaurants and using the new release The Baker, I stamped her on a 7 Gypsies tag, which of course was inked first and stamped in Coffee Archival. I water colored in some of pans for interest. I wanted her to pop a little, so kept ink away from her and the bread dough. 

On the back I will note the restaurants we did visit. 

Finished it off with a few butterflies and a lattice trim stained and crackled. 

Hope you enjoyed my little travel journal piece and I do thank you for stopping by. Have a wonderful day!

The Baker!

Hope you all are doing well! It is fast approaching Valentine's Day and this little cutie, "The Baker," is cooking up some sweetness over at Artistic Outpost! If you have the time and would like all the details and some extra photos just click HERE.

We actually have some plans for the Valentine's Day weekend and I hope you all are doing something wonderful with someone you love! Thank you so much for stopping by to visit!