A Travel Themed Post

 Hi everyone. Happy middle of the week once again to you.

I know this has been said many times and is very cliche, but it is already almost the end of May. If time keeps going this fast it will be autumn in a blink of the eye. Oh no!

Today I have a page from my journal with some flowers for Aimeslee's challenge at Art Journal Journey. I had a sheet of imported paisley and flower paper from India, and that was my inspiration for my page.

My background is made with some watered down paint, some ink and also a brick design rubber stamp. Then I cut the paisleys and flowers as well as the elephants from my sheet of paper. After they were glued down and the glue dried, I used a white pen and added some bright pink sequins to them. The ladies (an ancient stamp in my collection) are stamped on white paper, cut out and then added without color. I did that so they wouldn't get lost in the background.  I finished by adding the stamped quote and also some small little confetti dots.

My other travel themed piece today is a tag for Valerie's Travel theme at Tag Tuesday.

I started with a white tag and a scrap of map paper. Then I inked the edges.  I used some scrap green trim for the top, and I also used this fun set of suitcase dies. I cut the suitcases on white paper and inked them in various colors before using a marker to finish off details. Finally I added a  couple of Art by Marlene punch outs. 

And I still have more photos from Magnolia Gardens in Charleston from my couple of weeks ago weekend travels.  I hope you're not sick of them. 😁Today let me share some of my photos from the swamp walk. The Swamp Walk was an Audubon Sanctuary on the garden property and was an add on entry cost. For Mother's Day (which was when we visited), the cost was 50% off so it was $5, and definitely worth it.

After all our alligator encounters at the actual garden, my friend especially liked the raised walking platform. I must say I was always looking around in all directions for gators too when we got off the platforms.

I just love the green plant scum on the water.

In the sun it was one of my favorite shades of that color.

And of course, one thing I didn't bring with me on the trip was my camera. I wanted to keep my packing light for carry on (rather than checking baggage), but I didn't figure on visiting such a fascinating place. My phone has a decent camera for what I thought I would be snapping photos of, but even though phone's camera does zoom,  it isn't like the lens on my actual camera. 

I'm writing this because some of my zoomed shots aren't the clearest.

I caught these lizards  in an intimate moment.

And since this post is getting long, here's just a few bird photos as this really green swamp area was a rookery for egrest, herons and anhingas.

I'll share more another day. Hope your week is going well.