The End of March

 Hi everyone.

As today is the last day of March, it is also the last day of Valerie's SPRING challenge at Art Journal Journey. Thank you Valerie for this topic. It was just the perfect theme for a month where old man winter had a hard time leaving, and when I  was plenty ready for spring. And also I want to thank everyone who joined us with your own inspiration spring pages.

Here is my last page for this challenge, although hopefully not my last spring inspired page.

Last week I shared a mud season page with some dirty dogs on it. This is actually the other half of that background spread. At first I thought my mud season art would be a 2 page spread, but then I decided against it, so I was left with this background.

However, I thought these flowers I cut out of an old scrap of wallpaper (I have a small collection from various people's scraps) looked great on the background. It had me thinking about how green leaves and colorful blooms come from the mud and colorless early spring.

I glued down the flowers, stamped the quote and added some of these little plastic pearls.

I also want to post a tag for Wendy's FACES challenge over at Tag Tuesday.

I inked a tag and then used some gesso and a stencil. Once dry, I added some bits and bobs, as well this young man.  I think he will grow up to be a flying ace, hence all the little ace playing cards on the tag. And if that doesn't work, then I think he looks confident enough to become whatever he decides. 

It's not the most complicated tag I have ever made, but I am happy with it.

Have a great last few hours March, and thanks for visiting my blog.