Aprils Showers...Not January Snow Squalls

Hi everyone. Happy Thursday!

We are into the last 7 days of January. It always surprises me how fast January goes. When I think about January I always think  it will go on and on, but it never does. The same is true for March. But like many months, they both end up flying right by. (And sometimes February, though it's the shortest month ,seems to drag .😒) 

 My journal page today is for my calendar theme at Art Journal Journey and is based on a quote that I think many of you know.  But before we can have April showers, we have to finish both January and March. (And obviously February too.)

If the February and March go by as fast as January has, April will be here in a blink of an eye. 😉

This page took several work sessions to get it until I liked it. The main problem was that my background was a bit busy, and on my first attempt, my flowers were too light and didn't stand out off of that background. However, the trick was to paint the old flowers pink and then  re-die-cut flowers in red so they stood out more. 

Then I added some pink flower shaped sequins as well as putting a red confetti foam flower in the center of each sequin. That made a big difference too. 

My calendar theme runs through the end of month, and I'd love to see you there. 

I also have a tag for Michele's challenge at Tag Tuesday. This time the theme is Marie Antoinette. 

I was excited when I saw this challenge.  Back in 2008, my daughter, my husband and myself went to Paris for a few days. Some place during our sight-seeing, I came across a magazine all about Marie Antoinette. It's a high quality art magazine with lots of fantastic photos; so even though my original plan was to make a Marie Antoinette journal, and even though I have YET to make it, the magazine still looks brand new. I made some copies of some items from the magazine for my tag. I wasn't yet ready to cut up the magazine because I will one of these days make that journal. (And it might even be sooner now that I pulled out the magazine for this tag-😀.)

To make my page I first attached a copy of some  French print Then I cut the image of Marie A. to  fit my tag. I did a bit of inking and also used some watered down blue paint on the edges. I sprayed some white lace with some blue ink and added that. I also added some bling to the lace. The words are also cut out of a copied magazine page, and finally I used an old paper punch (I think bought  this punch for a journal I made when I came home from Paris) and gold paper to make the fleur-de-lis. 

That's all for me today.