Birds and Spring

 Hi everyone. Happy Thursday. I hope your week is going well. I woke up to a dusting of snow, but it has since turned to rain, and with the temperatures climbing today, it will be gone by dinner time. (Hopefully if the weather people are correct 😏)  And any of you in a major storm zone, I hope you are safe.

     I'm posting another page for my Spring Bird challenge at Art Journal Journey, I found the center image in a  stack of ephemera I've collected for journaling, and I decided to make it the centerpiece of my journal page.

      I started my page by first using a dot stencil and some light green paint. Then I added the image in the center of my page. I followed by using 2 shades of green ink and some squiggle stamps over the background. 

      I really wanted the page to be full of green because after a long winter, green is definitely a spring color.  I took a third shade of green ink and this leaf/stem stamp by Dina Wakely and stamped it on the bottom and top of my page. I also added a punch out green fern on the bottom left.

    I added several small confetti flowers to the leaves and the fern. And yes, I do know that ferns are not flowering plants, but I took some liberties by adding them.  Finally I stamped the word springtime and the phrase a light exists in spring.

 

  Not much else to report on since I'm not going into politics, but  I hope you like my page today, and have a great rest of your day too. 

     

Second on the Second

     Hi everyone. Happy Wednesday.  I have a very short post today, but I wanted to join Bleubeard and Elizabeth for Second on the Second. It's time to re-share a post from the past.

    My post today is from April of 2022: Happy Holidays.  I wanted something that links up to my new Art Journal Journey challenge. This month the challenge is Spring Birds.

    Here's a very spring journal page from that time, and it even has a couple of really spring birds on it too.

  Hope you like this second look, and have a great day.

Time for a New Challenge at TIOT Too!

    Hi everyone. Besides starting a new challenge at Art Journal Journey today, it is also time for a new challenge at Try It on Tuesday.

    Thank you everyone who joined our Spring Fling challenge. This time we want to see lots of color because our challenge is called RAINBOW COLORS. 

    I had bought a new journal awhile back from an online craft supply store here in the US called Joggles. Although I am not getting paid to advertise for them, when my new journal arrived it was wrapped in this cool butterfly tissue paper. I noticed later that there were butterflies in every color of the rainbow except violet, but even without violet there are definitely rainbow colors, so I decided the butterflies would make a great page.

    I used some Paper Artsy Mattint in Dragonfly blue to color the background. I chose  that color because it seemed to be the closest to the background color of the tissue paper.  Then I cut out the butterflies and used matte medium to glue them down. I had thought about adding some other things, but I don't think the page needs it. Once dry I stamped the quotes (Tim Holtz) and there you have my page.

   Be sure to check out the design teams pieces too because there are so many ways you can go with this challenge.  And as always, you have 2 weeks to link up any kind of rainbow colored inspired art.

   I look forward to seeing your artwork at Try It on Tuesday. 

It's April!

Hi everyone. Happy new month to you. It's April!

   Due to some unforeseen circumstances, this month I am back again as host at Art Journal Journey. Before I move onto our newest challenge, let me first thank everyone who joined me for my Home Sweet Home challenge. I loved seeing all the different examples of home.   Those of you who participated just rocked the challenge. ❤

  Now that it is April, here in the northern hemisphere we have spring. The world is getting green. Flowers are or will soon be blooming. Birds are migrating back, and even the birds that don't take off for the winter are nesting. Days are longer, and it's getting warmer too. And if you live somewhere that had a tough winter (like I and so many people did), it is a very exciting month.

    This month the new challenge is SPRING BIRDS. You can make journal pages about birds, about spring or about both. For my first page I have  birds and blooms.

     To make my page I was thinking about birds migrating back in the spring, and then, once they get to their summer home, you not only get to see them but you can also hear their songs. To show that I was thinking of spring, I added some assorted cut out paper flowers as well as a few flower sequins. 

    I used my ledger journal and started by lightly rubbing blue ink over the page. Then I used a set of feather stamps as well as some light and dark blue ink to stamp all those feathers. I think this feather set is an oldie from Hero Arts, but I have no packaging left with it so I can't be 100% certain.

    I stamped the bird image twice, once directly on my page and once on some plain paper. I did that because I didn't think the strings coming off the tag would be easy to fussy cut. I  fussy cut the bird and glued it down over the one stamped on my page. I colored the breast an orange red because the bird reminded me of a robin, plus robins are a sure sign of spring. I also used some white paint to cover the word on the tag in the bird's beak, and I wrote in the word home since the birds are migrating back to their summer homes.  Then I stamped and fussy cut the quote and added the fussy cut and sequinned flowers to my page.

   I hope you're inspired by this new theme and will join not only me, but Bleubeard and Elizabeth and Mia over at Art Journal Journey. Please remember that we only accept art journaling, but it can be journaling in any form. 

   Enjoy the start to the new month!