The Earth Laughs in Flowers

  Is it really Friday already? And almost June? It's a busy time right now with baby showers and graduations, and spending more and more time outdoors. It also means I may not be spending as much time on some of the art challenges for awhile. However I will NOT MISS Kristin Van Valkenburg's Summer of Color challenge which begins on June 2!!!

  I love seeing all the flowers in bloom this time of year and that is what inspired this journal page and title for it:

  It began like this:

 I was just playing with watered down paints in my watercolor journal to add color to some pages. But as soon as I looked at this I saw the flowers:)


 Here are a few more lettering practice pages in my composition book. These were taken from prompts in JoAnne Sharpe's book The Art of Whimsical Lettering.

           Exercises on using pens, markers or paint on black card stock or over black gesso.

                                  Here I put some of  my geli plate printed deli papers to use :)

 The print on the right was a happy discovery. I had done the left page in another comp book using alcohol markers (Spectrum Noir). When I went to tear the page out the print on the right was underneath, having bled thru. I really like the whitewash effect!

  This week the Simon Wednesday Challenge blog theme is "Anything Goes" so I'm sharing this card:

  Although you can't see it , the background cardstock (The Glitter Stack-DCWV), is sparkly with glitter. I found an image of the college logo (Marist College in NY) where our godson Anthony just graduated from, trimmed it and adhered it to the card with 3M foam tape. A personal message was typed and added inside.

     I'm also linking to Art Journal Every Day, Creative Every Day, and Paint Party Friday.

  In ending this post I'm leaving you with a favorite Maya Angelou quote. We lost this amazing woman a few days ago but her words will be imprinted in our hearts forever. Rest in peace Maya, and thank you.

" If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be."   Maya Angelou