Ready for Green

Hi everyone. Happy middle of the week to you.

Today I have a journal page to share for Art Journal Journey  and my it's on the calendar theme.  I made another ode to a month page; this time I chose March.

March can be a tough month in New Hampshire. While many places are getting signs of spring, we might be having a blizzard. Or we might be having signs of spring ourselves. You just never know.

But March is still a very good month because 1) it is my birthday month, 2) the spring equinox arrives which means it is usually our last wintery month, and 3) this year I have a very long time  planned  girlfriends adventure which I am quite excited about. (More about the adventure at a later date.)

I used a lot of green on my page because by March, I am sick of the browns and greys of winter.  Probably my area is in the middle of a brown mud season too.  By March, I am really wanting to see some green  outside my windows.

I started my page by tearing up a sheet of account-graph style paper and attaching those pieces. Then I stamped a few background images. After that I added an image of clover that I had, as well as some gold metallic paper clovers, an old scrapbooking calendar piece, and a TH girl. I think she's ready to go play in the March mud, but in that pretty light colored dress, I think her teddy bear would be a much cleaner choice.

I die cut the March word, stamped a few circles, and then to pull the whole page together, I sponged just a little  bit of gesso  randomly around the page. Finally, I drew a frame around the page.

The other day when I went outside I noticed some dog ice prints on the deck. Usually I just see indistinguishable dog prints, but these were cool, like the pads on their feet soaked up the water. I thought I would share them.

As I said to the dogs, if these were part of a murder investigation, you'd have been caught red handed. 😏 Hope you didn't think they were too boring either. 

Thanks for stopping by.