Dia de Los Muertos

Hello my little peepers. Greetings from the Honeysuckles. Or, Hola, amigos! That is the extent I know of the Spanish language. As you can imagine Dianne received her "Mexico" pages and so I can show the creation I made last weekend. This is an 16" x 16" watercolor paper (folded to make 8x8 pages) painted with acrylic paints.

The first page was dedicated to Dia de Los Muertos - the Day of the Dead celebration held in Mexico around November 1.

The image on the first page was cut out of a beautiful cookbook and then decorative items were added such as clock parts, jewels, and a skeleton's hand. I used a scrap piece of floral ribbon around the cut-out. The shinny image behind the image is a cutout from a food package. Here is a close up of the clock parts used as an earring and at the top and bottom of the oval:

Here are the two inside pages. The left side is from a cookbook explaining how to prepare your chilies.... yes in Spanish. The right side is an image from a cookbook describing Cinco de Mayo. The skeleton was cut out from other clip art I had - thanks to Michelle Ward and our September workshop. The skeleton and skull went so well with the loving couple I had to use them....

Don't know what creative vent mused me into making a flap but I did - I had a playing card of the heart and a stamp and so used this theme on the inside:

Oh ooppps, the dreaded camera wrist strap...... YIKES.... oh well, too late to redo since Dianne has her pages,

And the heart stamped on a transparency and highlighted with a red sharpie pen....

And finally the last page.....

Nope, I have no idea what made me use this pear. Can't even remember where I got it from but I did have a playing card with the Spanish word for Pear..... These were really fun to work on and I am so happy Dianne "loves" them. So don't have much more to say except to use a portion of my identifying tag made for this art work and say,

My little honeysuckle peeps --- Adios or as they say, Hasta la Vista! Whoop Whoop