friends for life 40

Hi there! I hope you are enjoying the weekend. Last night, Angie and I went to watch the Supercross Motorcycle races live ~ Wow! Talk about excitement! I'm trying to keep up with some sort of weekly art journaling so I joined along with a few challenges to help me stay on track including Brenda's A Visual Journey challenge where anything goes, simply create in a journal and the Compendium of Curiousities 3: Challenge 19 where we are challenged to use Tim Holtz's Frayed Fabric technique while incorporating various Tim Holtz products and Brenda's A Visual Journey c

 I made a double page spread in my art journal:

 I joined along with the current A Vintage Journey challenge where we are challenged to use a portrait. For the focal point, I layered and stitched the sweet Tim Holtz Found Relative card on a piece of Tim Holtz frayed fabric:

 I chose this particular photo because it reminds me of my sister Tina and I (eventhough she is 10 years older than me):

I surrounded the image with lots of texture made using a Tim Holtz heart stencil, texture paste:

 The title was spelled out using Tim Holtz chit chat stickers with a touch of Vintage Photo Distress ink applied to the edges:

For color, I used the following Tim Holtz Distress products: Concord Grape, Seedless Preserves and Shaded Lilac:

The die cut hearts were made using various Tim Holtz Sizzix dies along with Tim Holtz Grungeboard. For texture and interest, I applied Tim Holtz Distress Rock Candy to the hearts and random places on the pages prior to adding color:

For color inspiration, I joined along with the current colour me challenge and I'm also linking to the Sunday Stamper challenge where we are challenged to create using hearts along with some rubber stamping ~ (lots of hearts and I used a Tim Holtz Bitty Grunge checkerboard Grunge stamp around the perimeter):

Thanks so much for stopping by ~ I hope you have a great day!
Be Sweet ;)