I gesso'd up some cheap large sized playing cards and made myself an art journal card. It is about the amount of money that I spend on food! I have to say that I am glad that I have the food chain credit card and I use it everywhere. Really though, I do which I had bought shares instead! However, I was thrilled when I got $310.00 worth of free groceries!!! Actually, I couldn't help but tell everyone who would listen.
I had fun doing this and it all started out with ripping out a page out of an old telephone book! It happened to be a page with No Frills on it (or fondly referred to No Thrills!). Then there was a piece of junk mail that arrived from the Heart and Stroke! I cut out the bundles of Canadian currency. That put the next thought in my head of just how much food costs me each year! I added some images from a magazine and some melted ink images from another magazine. I used acrylic paint, ink pen, oil pastels gel medium and watercolour, and metallic ink pad with purchased stamped swirly image. Do I really need to add that it was lots of fun!!
Although I was very busy trying to get Christmas stuff done after my husband went in for double by-pass surgery in October...I had a chance to make some Christmas cards. It was a bit of a assembly time production but each one was unique.
I forget where I got some of the ideas from but I used recycled paper for the image on the front of the card. I used acrylic paint and things from around the house to make the marks. The sky and tree were made from some paper that had been used at the store to wrap some glass jars. The only purchased thing was the stamp to make the "cloudy sky".
I had some envelopes that had come in the mail and used it as my "snow".
We had a great day! My hubby and I did the food shopping for Christmas and stopped off to visit some friends. Heading to visit family tomorrow for the holidays!!
