A Journal Page for AJJ-My Favorite Color is October

   Hi everyone,  today has been a gloomy rainy cold October day. Can not complain too much though, as October has been really nice here in  SW Missouri

  I decided I wanted to make another page for this month's theme over at Art Journal Journey.  Tracey is the hostess this month and her theme is My Favorite Color is October.

  I am not as artistic as most of the paper artists there, but I do have fun trying to make a page to share-and use allot of saved cut out papers in a collage type page.

  My materials were construction paper, saved papers from mail advertisements, shiny stickers, stamps and ink.

  I just started with the construction papers and then began layering things. October is a great time to be out in the woods, so one might hear and see owls, perhaps a bear. (at our Missouri woods home we had the small black bears in our woods) Spiders and their webs are beautiful this month too-especially with the dew on the webs early mornings. October is also fall colors, Halloween colors-orange and black and we celebrate here in the states Halloween and trick or treaters

  I had this package of stickers in my stash for a very long time-Figured good time to open this up and use them. They were really different stickers for me. On thick paper and these were a very thin shiny foil.  I think I took at least a dozen photos but couldn't get one without the flash showing.

I am using a very old German cookbook for these AJJ challenges now

The three owls came from a StJude's advertisement in the mail-and there is actually that thin film under the pumpkin-kitty stamp that was used over the mailing address 

The bear cut out was from a Ranger Rick's mail advertisement, I stamped the autumn leaf, and added stickers-owl on the left, ghost, spider and web, and pumpkins

Looking at my page from these photos-I can see now that a better composition would have been to move the right corner of black construction paper, pumpkins and spider over a bit to the left.

    If that empty space bugs me enough I will go back and add a little something-maybe more pumpkins-smiles.

Below photo you can see the reflection of the film over the pumpkin-kitty stamp

I thought I would add the left over torn construction paper and the cat sticker to recipe page above the main page.

 Yes much better now-I need to remember to take a photo and then check the composition-a photo always points out things to me

The harvest moon I was able to capture this week

Thanks for stopping by-Happy October