Lunar

I love all things moon related. The latest dictionary letter over at the Craft Barn alphabet challenge is L and as I searched through my antique dictionary I came across the word lunar. Perfect!
I love a full moon and I hoped to take a photo of one on Monday 22nd Feb, but sadly the sky was very overcast that night.
So I decided to dig out some lovely moon photos I took in September. You may have seen these but here goes. They were taken on holiday in Rhodes.

I love the texture on these photos. When I see a full moon here in the UK I often see a "face" on it and I made a few moons with faces for Christmas cards last year.
I had one of them left over, it was a face I didn't like but it had some great textures so I decided to paint it over with Picket Fence crackle paint.

I love those crackles

I have also decided to make some single pages in my art journal....It will fill it up far too quickly if I keep making double pages every time. I added some scrunched up tissue wrap and some texture paste stars through my TH stencil.

I wanted a deep blue starry night sky to put my moon in so I dribbled and dabbed my paints onto my page adding lots of spritzes of water.

I painted some of my stars silver. Sorry about this awful photo, the under cupboard light in my kitchen is not brilliant. It's too cold in my studio to work so I have been working on the kitchen breakfast bar.

I wanted to use a moon quote so I used the Moon one below. This has actually been attributed to several people so I can't be definite who is the owner!

Shoot for the moon, if you miss it you will still land among the stars

Once my night sky background was make it was time to put my creative hat on. This is what I came up with.

 Here is a close up of my moon and the lunar dictionary  definition. I add even more texture with frantage and surrounded the moon with my Noor star die which I also dipped into paint. The little stars are a Lavinia stamp. I used gold acrylic paint. 

I still wanted to keep a touch of the whimsical with my lunar page so I added a Lavinia fairy stamp and die cut a star for her to hold which was sprinkled with gold glamour dust.

I would like to enter my mixed media piece into the following challenges.

The Craft Barn letter L. Mine is L for lunar.                                                                                          

Our creative corner 1/3 previous challenge mine is words, words, words chosen by Candice
Rhedd's Creative Spirit March
Simon says stamp Wednesday  1/5 touchy feely
Whimsy Stamps 1/3 anything goes
Simon says stamp Monday take a leap into the unknown it's the first time I have used picket fence crackle paste and I was not sure if it would ruin my moon...it didn't. I loved the effect.
Creative Inspirations 1/3 pretty projects

Thanks for popping by today and welcome to March.  Spring really is just around the corner now.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x