By the Seaside Journal Page

 Happy Easter, Passover and Ramadan.  All three of the Judaism based faith's celebrate their holy days at this time of year.  As Christ went to Jerusalem for the Passover holiday so it is not surprise that the Christian Holy Week occurs at the same time.   Ramadan is not obviously linked to the Jewish time of remembrance but is the 9th month of the Islamic calendar so naturally falls at about the same time.  Personally I believe that all 3 of them have roots much further back in time when a spring festival of renewal might have been celebrated by our ancient ancestors.  As these things were not documented in any way known to us we can only speculate.  Anyhow enjoy this weekend in your traditional way.

None of this has anything to do with this journal page.

Well nothing unless you live near an English Seaside where this weekend all roads leading to it will be extended slowly moving car parks.  The most important places in my personal geography are Blackpool (Born in St. Annes) Bournemouth (Lived there for 30 + years and would move back to the south coast if I could) and Grimsby (where I live now)  All three are on the coast and all three are part of a thriving seaside culture.  Frankly I cannot imagine living inland without a large body of water nearby.

When the Mintay Seaside pad and embellishments were published it was a must have for me.  Unusually for me they have not just been looked at, stroked and admired but I actually cut into a page.  Well they do offer a whole lot of opportunities to fussy cut different images and elements out.

The page was covered with chalk based pastel just pulled across in lines and then smudged with my fingers.  The Mintay Lighthouse stuck to white card and then painted, with the 2 fussy cut elements the basic structure of the page was in place.   The seagull bottom left is an old wood mounted inkadinkado stamp one of my favourites and often referred to as the Joker.   Stamped in Clair Grey and fussy cut.   The other stamped images came from a Creative Stamper set from either last year or the year before, Mermaid coloured with felt pens.

The chorus of an old popular music hall song copied onto the page.  It expresses my pleasure in coastal living complete to the stroll along the prom, prom, prom.

If you are interested I have only found 1 UK outlet for Mintay papers, you can find them at Mad Arches.

Now I'm going to share my page with:

Art Journal Journey - Play it Again Sam

Pearly Sparkles - #72 Anything But a Card

Mixed Media Lovers - #12 Anything Mixed Media Goes

Creative Artiste - #81 Always Anything Mixed Media Goes