Week One...

A couple days ago I completed week one of my Art Journal Journey that I am joining Emily on! I wrote about it approximately a week ago in my Lady in the Water post, but I won't revisit that again! Just watch the movie, OK? Alrighty then.

Ya know... I thought I had a deck of cards laying around the house. After all, who doesn't have a deck of cards laying around the house? Especially people like us -- whom get together with friends every Saturday night to play board or card games. I looked all over the place for a deck of cards that have been tattered and well worn that I could alter. My thoughts were that a well-used deck of cards would be perfect for this project! Am I right?

The only decks of cards I could find were these KEM playing cards and I don't think my hubby would appreciate me altering those. He got them a couple of years ago for his birthday and I guess after he received them, we threw out the "cheap" cards. Why on Earth we would do that, I don't know. My super-spidey senses should have told me that I would one day need them for this very project! But the world went on and I made a trip to my local Tar-jay to purchase a deck of brand new, not well-used, not tattered cards.

And... Ta-Da... this is my first week's journal card:












I hope that my cards get more creative as I go. I've never worked on a scale this small, but I have had the itch to for a little while now, so this was a lot of fun for me! I am looking forward to next week.

The details: The paper is WRMK, the ribbon is BG; I machine stitched the ribbon on; I hand stitched all the beading on.

Thank you, Emily, for this wonderful Challenge!!

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