Second on the Second

 Hi everyone.  It's the second of the month and time for Second on the Second over at Bleubeard's and Elizabeth's blog . All you need to do is repost something you've posted before.

Here's a page from November of 2017. I picked a nature themed page since this month Jo's theme at Art Journal Journey is Nature. I also picked this particular page because here in the northern hemisphere our days are getting to be more about dark nights than long days.  Plus I love the owl. 

The original link up is here On Wildlife Art.

The other morning there was ice on the dog's outside water dish. The last couple of nights it's been down to 29 degrees F or -1.7 degrees C. Brr. Frost is on the pumpkin (as the saying goes) for certain. At least with these dark and  chilly mornings sleeping in an extra hour is a nice treat. 😏

And here's a new autumn page for Jo's Nature challenge over at Art Journal Journey. This page is inspired by all of the leaves falling off the trees in my area right now.

I began by using some blue and pink watercolor paints to create my background. Then I stamped a lot of falling leaves and colored them with markers.  After that I die cut the tree and fox from an old  die set.   I also used a few other older dies and cut out the leaves and the acorn. Finally I used an old die set from Spellbinders and cut out the tag as well as the large textured maple leaf.

I inked the tree and the tag to color them. One leaf and the acorn were colored in with markers. I used markers and a white pen on Mr. Fox.  I also used an orange paint pen around the edge of the tag.

Finally I added a bit of bronze colored metallic paper trim at the bottom of the tree, and I stamped the quote.

And here's a few photos from my yard that were the inspiration for my latest journal page.

The warm weather we had last week gave my brussel sprouts (the only thing left growing in my garden) a boost in size.

I hope they get a little bit bigger before I need to pick them.

Thanks for visiting.