Love Songs

The new theme for the Cut It Up challenge will have you singing and sentimental!  Create inspired by your favorite Love Song!  Don't forget your die cuts!!    

I have always been inspired by this love song so perfect for my relationship with Kelly:  What Are you Still Doin' Here?  This boy/guy/man has truly been my greatest blessing and I do wonder sometimes why in the world he has stayed with me!

We've known each other since we were 12 years old and it's been an adventure with lots of "turns in the road"~ well what would you call it when a computer geek and a classically trained oboist end up in the country with a bunch of horses~ that was a major turn!  

One blog post could never begin to explain what we have experienced in the past 43 years of knowing one another and 33 years of marriage.  We've pulled some real stunts (eloping was our best), created some great memories, and built a beautiful family!  As the song says, our lives have been full of mistakes and blessings!

Alright, enough reminiscing, onto this journal page!

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I started by printing the digi, Careful!, made into a silhouette digi cut in Design Space.  I then cut the silhouette out of black vinyl and masking tape.  

I masked off the image and sponge-inked over the page in the colors listed below.  I then stenciled and stamped using the same colors.  

Once that was done, I stenciled stars using paint.  Now, I could remove the mask.  After the paint dried, I stuck on the vinyl silhouette, printed sentiment (lyrics), and silver stars.  I glued a little denim and lace to the edge.

Materials used:

Die cuts:  Careful! from Polkadoodles

Font: Cricut Design Space Kickball
Homemade Stencil for stars cut from CTMH Artistry  

Stencils:  TCW Time Travel, TCW Mini Time for Love
Stamps:  Retired CTMH Backgrounds    
CTMH Inks:  Sapphire, Dutch, Thistle, Gypsy, Midnight Blue, Crystal

Paint:  Blick Acrylic Pearl White

Silver Stars:  Stash

Denim and Lace:  Old jeans and lace from all the years together!

My love song journal page is off to the following challenges/pages:  

We Love to Create:  AG Mixed Media
Try it on Tuesday:  Romance
Creativ Fusion Arts & Crafts:  Love
International Art & Soul:  Make your own background
Die Cut Divas:  Love is in the Air
Polkadoodles Craft and Coloring
Tales from the Craft Room:  Love

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