Hi everyone. Happy Thursday. It's been a lovely week (again) so far weather-wise at my house; these are all bonus days with cool nights for nice sleeping and warm days. I love it!❤
Today I have a couple of journal spreads to share from my Garden/Harvest journal. Today's theme is yellow.
I'm linking up to Aimeslee's Anything Goes challenge at Art Journal Journey and also to Creative Artiste Mixed Media challenge blog #108. The theme there is always Anything Goes.
This first page is all about bees and honey. My bees are doing very well, and they made a lot of honey. However they didn't make any for me to take. 😒 Oh well, I would rather they have food, especially since we have long winters here in NH.
The background is made with a bit of paper layering as well as some ink coloring. On the left I used 2 die cut sets.I used black paper and a honeycomb die. I also used a Hero Arts set to make the honey pot, the honey dripped and also the word honey.
On the right side I used some die cut bees. I used a glitter pen on their wings and added some little art gemstones to their bodies. I also added some yellow ric-rac trim and a felt sunflower from my stash.
My other spread today is all about Corn. On the right side I used a sheet of cardboard colored paper. There are 2 holes punched in the top where I added some green twine. I stamped some corn stalks along the bottom, and I also stamped the large corn image which is from Impression Obsession. I used markers to color the corn and watercolor for the background. I framed it with a layered frame and added some vintage yellow stamps (I don't recognize what they are from) behind it. I used my favorite cow stamp on acetate, added some bright yellow trim and also some yellow washi tape. The corn word is cut from a sheet of paper.
I had all these little plastic ears of corn I wanted to use, so I created a cornfield with die cut corn stalks and a stamped and fussy cut fence. I first stamped some corn stalks along the bottom for depth, and then I added the die cut stalks and the fence. The windmill top is a slightly altered sticker, and I drew in the legs. The corn seed packet was cut from a sheet of paper, and I added the punch out quote. Funny, the quote was just laying on the floor as it must have fallen out of an envelope or package, I think it wanted to be on this page, and since it works great, I added it.
Here's a close up of my favorite cow stamp so you can see it better. I colored in the daisy that was in it's mouth.
There you have it. That's a lot for today, so that's all for me. Have a great rest of your day!
15 comments:
I am sure that you are a little disappointed not to be able to get at least a little honey from your hives, but if the bees are doing well that’s the key isn’t it? As you say they face a long, cold winter ahead of them. All the best - David
Beautiful, happy spreads boath 🤩 Good that the bees are well.
Our weather is at last turning cooler and rainy. I took a freh nordic walk today 😃
Have a great time there far , my friend 😘
...yellow is such a cheery color.
The plastic ears of corn look great--adds a 3D effect.
So lovely! I love the one with those little ears of corn.
Oh, those are wonderful, happy pages, I love them!
You are so creative, it´s a joy! Thank you for sharing, hugs
Isn't yellow a cheerful colour.
Here in the UK we saw a lot of yellow today as the sun has been shining :)
Wishing you a happy end of week.
All the best Jan
Your journal pages are absolutely beautiful, Erika. They have such a positive, sunny vibe. Your current weather sounds lovely, too. Warm days and cool nights, great for sleeping. Sounds like Northern California :) Enjoy the rest of the week! Hugs - Carola
I love the yellow honeybee page. I haven't seen honeybees all year until the last few days when I've been seeing them on the wild coleus. I have no idea where their hive is.
Yellow isn't a color I'm in love with, but I do love what you've done with it in these pages!
I love these journal pages and fun theme for a journal I am so happy to read that your bees are doing well hopefully next year you can harvest a bit of honey. hugs Kathy
honey and corn. Well how about some honey-roasted corn
Happy Friday, Erika.
much♡love
Wow, lots of little details on these pages to peruse! My eye definitely went to the Hero Arts Honey set, I have it too, looked really familiar, lol. Decorating the bee backs looks really cool. And the corn spread is so clever. You are braver than me putting dimensionals on a bound journal page but those corn ears do look cute. Thanks for linking to AJJ. Glad you are having good weather! xoxo
I am learning so much about bees from your posts. I just imagined the honey produced was for you but now I see that they need it for the hard winter months ahead. And I see why honey is so expensive (unless it is the supermarket stuff).
Those are two bright pages in your journal celebrating corn. The left side one is a lovely combination of images and I do like your cow, whilst the right side is lovely and bright with its blue background and the complimentary yellow of the corn. How fortunate that you had those corn pieces to hand,
Hugs, Neet xx
You've used gorgeous colours, wonderful textures and lovely details to create both of these fabulous journal spreads. The little corn ears are adorable.
Thank you for joining in with our September challenge "Anything Mixed Media Goes" at Creative Artiste Mixed Media. Good luck! x
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