Butterflies

 Hi everyone. Happy June! I can't believe how fast May went by and that it is already a new month.

Today we start a new challenge at Art Journal Journey Last month's language challenge was very interesting, so thank you Elle for hosting.  I learned so much about language!

Today I want to welcome Mia as our host for June. 

Mia has chosen Butterflies as her challenge. This should be a fun challenge for the (hopefully) summer skies of June. And if you live south of the equator and summer has left you, then (hopefully) it will be a good memory of the summer that was or maybe even your dreams of the summer that will come. 

My first page for the month is in my garden journal. I recently received a 6x6 inch packet of this beautiful  paper in a grab box of supplies I bought on National Scrapbooking Day. Since so many butterflies have these bright  almost jewel  toned colors, I used 3 sheets and die cut out some butterflies. They were also embossed, but unfortunately for most of them, you can't see the details in the photo.

After inking my background, I used matte medium to attach all these butterflies. Once the page was dry I stamped the "use your wings" quote randomly around the page.

At first I was thinking that this would be my background, and  that I would do  more with the page. As I looked at it however, I thought the butterflies were so pretty and colorful that I decided just to add the chipboard word that I had painted with black paint. The word was something else in the grab box like the paper.

Don't forget that only art journaling is accepted at Art Journal Journey. It can be in a journal, on a loose sheets of paper or a canvas, and it can also be digitally created. Cards, tags and other types of art are not accepted.

I hope to see your butterfly creations over at Art Journal Journey. 

Have a great new month and thanks for visiting my blog.