Summer In Her Heart

  BRRRR!!! Baby it's COLD outside! So I stay in as much as I can and that's perfect for doing more art. Here is a journal page that began like this:

 I painted over the page with Payne's Gray, a deep blue and magenta. I have always had a fear of starting with dark colors but an online class with  Mindy Lacefield that I took last year helped me through. Not just that but it taught me about using paint colors all around a face to bring more harmony. You can see my paintings from that class here, here, and here if you wish.

 This is my finished page:

 Yup, that would be me:) Linking this to Art Journal Every Day; Art It Friday -Show Your Face; Art Journal Journey; and Paint Party Friday.

 And this is a card I made for the Simon Wednesday Challenge whose theme this week is "ombre" :

 Products: lg white notecard; glossy cardstock; patterned cardstock (Glitter Stack-DCWV); Wild Fairy Lily rubber stamp (Hero Arts); sentiment  (Hampton Arts); rubber brayer; Blue Breeze Kaleidacolor, Versafine Onyx Black inks (Tsukineko); die cut cardboard bird.

 My word for the year finally came to me and you can see it in my last post.

 Also, did you notice my new blog header??? I managed it all by myself  with much help from my son. And it's for YOU dear Sherrie!! (aka Giggles, and you can find her fabulous art and posts here).

 This Sunday we'll be celebrating hubby's birthday with a spaghetti dinner and chocolate cake and some family so I'll be busy cleaning, cooking and baking. What are you up to this weekend?

 I leave you with this quote which purely states how I feel right now...

" I love summertime more than anything else in the world. That's the only thing that gets me through the winter, knowing that summer is going to be there."       Jack McBrayer