It's May

    Hi everyone. Happy May. I don't know where April disappeared to but here in the Northern hemisphere May means we are really into spring now. After this past long winter, spring is really joyous this year, at least (in my area) with some beautiful weather as well as lots of greening up and flowers starting to bloom.

   Before I move on, let me once again thank everyone who participated over at Art Journal Journey last month. It was a busy month and wow, it was great to see so many people linking up.

    This month I want to welcome the talented Neet as our guest host. You probably know her from her blog Hickydorums. If you stop by AJJ, you have seen her fun Thursday pages and read her stories all based on a snarky quote.

    This month Neet has picked the theme It Must Have Wings.  You can read about her choice over  at AJJ, but think about all the things that have wings.

      For my first page I decided to go with airplane wings, mainly because I have been wanting to get away for a while now. Unless something pops up (and you  never what happens), I don't think I'll be going anywhere until September, and I won't be flying then, but planning a trip is as fun as when the actual trip happens. 

    I started by inking my page with a few shades of blue  and then stamping the flight map several times. After that I used white paint and painted the clouds, and when that paint dried I outlined those clouds. In the center of my page I created a collage of several images, some from some vintage Tim Hotlz stamps, some of a Deep Red stamp and some are vintage style air mail stickers.  The old fashion plane ticket is stamped on white paper and colored with various inks to look vintage before I cut it out, and the other images are stamped with black or colored inks and then fussy cut without doing any background enhancing.  I also used a TH stamp set to add the words on my page. Finally, to pull the page together I sprayed some pinkish-red ink over it.

   I hope you decide to join Neet at AJJ with some winged journal pages this month. Please remember our dreaded rules. That means no cards, tags, dimensional art , etc. And if you link up through other forms of social media (other than blogging) please be aware that we may not be able to comment on your page. I have Facebook but not Instagram or other on-line groups, and even though I don't want to skip a comment, I can't link up if I don't belong.

   I look forward to seeing your "wings".  And have a wonderful start to this new month also.