Memories are made of this...

I am having a great time with my journals at the moment - most of the Christmas cards are made and I am spending my evenings with the angels(see here)

I love the new challenge at Art Journal Journey where the challenge is Collage - and some journaling!

My page this time is inspired by our trip to Florence and Rome in the Spring of 2014.

I keep all sorts of ephemera from our trips and always intend to do something with them. Some of the bits and pieces go into the travel journal I make at the time but others get put into a labelled bag.

I gessoed over the Uffizi Museum ticket so that I could stamp the Lost Coast image of Leonardo da Vinci's sketch of a woman over the information. The piece of paper behind it and the trellis were used in my Travel Journal. The Italian book page is from a book from a second hand stall we passed and the gold paper is from some lovely chocolates we tried. The statue which probably isn't even Italian was from a magazine!

The background is a combination of stencils and stamps.

I couldn't resist adding some foiling to the edge of the torn ticket and a little on the book paper. I wrote the quote of Dante Alighieri  around the edge of the ticket and paper. To save you cricking your neck it says "Beauty awakens the soul to act" 
My visit to Florence and especially the Uffizi will never be forgotten.
I hope you like my page.

Thank you for looking, Chris