Q&L challenge: SMILE and UP

hello everyone !!!

today I am very very excited to share with you my frst art journal page that I created inside my new art journal!!! I got inspired by vicky papaioannou ,a very talented woman , and I really like the way she creates an art journal page so I thought to give it a try!!!!!

a good fried told me about the Q&L challenges that will take part all year so I thought this is a good inspiration to start the first page !!! the first challenge is to use the words SMILE and/or UP on a quote or lyric on your project !!!! 

I used a quote I found and I really liked it : Music makes me Smile !!!! 

and this is my page:

I used distress inks in orange shades to create my background ,washi tape and modeling paste with a crafters workshop masks to make texture on my background and then some stamping around the edges with vintage photo and archival coffee inks !!! I really like the result!!!! hope you do too!!!

I also made an ATC card using this quote : I like people who Smile when it's Raining.

I am planing to make an ATC mini album that will host all the ATC's thought out the year !!!! 

I heat embossed the edges using a film strip stamp and sprayed the ATC with a lot of perfect pearls mist!!!! I like that it is all sparkly !!!! 

see you !!!!

kisses !!!