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!