August Days

   Hard to believe August is here already. I swear summer passes by more quickly than any other season! I'm looking forward to more beach time with with our friends so the posts may be infrequent this month. I did manage however to get my calendar spread completed for July and even have both August's and September's ready to go although I won't share Sept. just yet. I'm linking this post to both The Kathryn Wheel blog (Kate Crane's 366 Calendar Project) and Balzer Designs blog (Julie Fei-Fan Balzer's Art Journal Everyday Project). Anyone can join in at anytime and as often as they like. There is so much wonderful inspiration to be found on the links shared by artists participating. If these links I gave don't work you can click on the project badges on the sidebar. My earlier projects are either on my Flickr photostream or in older posts.

   Here is my completed July calendar spread:

   You can read more about it in this post.

   August pages started:

   This was a spread I'd done awhile ago-just playing with watercolors and the Tim Holtz music mask (on the the right.)

   And here is August all ready to go:





  I punched scalloped circles from patterned papers and sponged the edges with pink, lime green and turquoise inks. I stamped the sentiment "heaven seems a little closer in a place beside the water". The shells, seahorse and letter circles are stickers. For the month and days of the week I used a set of foam stamps from Magenta(which I use for each month).

  And, as I always love to do, I will visit as many links as I can in the next few days for these projects.

  Thank you for your lovely comments and for stopping by! Until next time....

               "Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns
                in order to look at things in a different way."  Edward De Bono