Marching On...

   and hopefully thawing out a bit. It truly is wonderful to see some melting of all the snow still piled up all over. And has anyone noticed the birds are changing their calls to songs of Spring? Oh it's also Daylight Savings Time here on Sunday- we move our clocks ahead 1 hour, giving us more daylight in the early morning. Three things I am grateful for! (If you click on the link it takes you to a list of DST dates for 2014 all over the world).

  The art today begins with my March calendar spread. This idea was a prompt from my DYAY class with JoAnne Sharpe (link on sidebar).

          The really tricky part was making sure to get 31 leaves across the pages in the right sizes!

  And here's a close up of days 1 and 2  filled in. I am caught up but  took this picture earlier to share with the class.

                                            linking to Kate Crane's Calendar Challenge 2014

This next mixed media page in another one of my art journals was created for Piarom's (Conny) Mix it Monthly challenge for March. The theme is abstracts and the color inspiration is orange and blue.

   The background was done by scraping acrylic paints over the page with an old credit card. Mark making was added and then when I spotted the two postage stamps I took off an envelope recently (thank you Patty-I know you do the same:) I collaged them on. I wasn't quite sure what to do next to add interest so I played around with a variety of punched  card stock shapes over the page. Once satisfied with it I glued them in place.

  In an earlier post I shared two pages I had finished drawing in my DYAY journal but they still needed the watercoloring. Here they are all done!

   Well, that's all for today. I'm trying to get ahead on some things for the coming week because next weekend St. Patrick's events are being held in town-which I won't miss-and in addition, the 15th is not only my birthday but also my two year blogiversary!! Wanna know how I will celebrate? With 3 giveaways!!!
So, stay tuned...

  And thank you all for your comments last Friday. Sadly, the time got away from me and I did not reply to each. Just know how much I do appreciate your thoughtfulness.

  Linking to Creative Every Day, Kate Crane's Calendar Challenge, Mix It Monthly, and Paint Party Friday.

   " We gain strength and courage and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot."    Eleanor Roosevelt