February nearly complete and March ready to write in, plus an entry in my Challenges altered book

It's the final day of the month of February, and I am sharing my puny calendar with you.

I admit it's a bit more colorful than in years past, but I have no idea what I was thinking when I used that large TH rubber stamp that took up four spaces/days in my calendar.  It was certainly hard to write anything in on those days.  You see today is blank, because I will fill it out at the end of the day, as I do every day.

March has been photographed and is ready to write in.  The idea I was trying to convey was March is all about college basketball, and although I don't usually watch college sports, I had a stamp with a basketball in it.  I don't own a shamrock stamp, or would have used it.

I further have one final entry for Rike's yellow theme at Art Journal Journey.  But that's not all.  For this last day of February, I have a three-fer.

This two page spread in my Challenges altered book honors Art Journal Journey with Rike's yellow theme, Moo-Mania and More with their Woman theme, and Try it on Tuesday with their Powder Your * * *  theme.  I call it a Woman of spirit and capacity, which I took from the tag on the left side.

I realized after I stamped and embossed the rubber stamp shaped like a tag (made by Hero Arts), the background, created using my handmade shimmering mists and salt, was actually interfering with the stamping.

I used the same gold embossing powder on the right side, too.

Highly detailed stamps, like the Live Art, are harder to see in photos, but much prettier when you look at the results in a book or on a page.

It may depend on the angle from which you are viewing the image,

or the amount of salt left embedded on the background paper.

Perhaps removing some of the color from the photo might help.

This daVinci inspired rubber stamp turned out better than I anticipated.

It's really sad you can barely see the woman's face in the heart.  At least in this photo, you can clearly see where I got the title.

It's obvious I've created this in my Challenges altered book.  For the background, I began with a sheet of 8.5 x 11 inch yellow copier paper.  To it, I sprayed some of my handmade shimmering mists made from mica powders.  While wet, I poured sea salt on the mists.  I allowed the mists to dry, then removed as much salt as would come off.  I then inked three women themed rubber stamps using VersaMark.  After applying my handmade pouncer to keep my embossing powders in check, I stamped the three stamps.  I then heat embossed using gold embossing powder.

Thank you for joining me today, as I shared my February calendar page and my latest entry I created for Art Journal Journey, Moo-Mania and More, and Try it on Tuesday.   I hope to see you at these three challenge blogs, too.  However, you will only find my calendar pages on this blog.  So again, thanks for visiting.  I appreciate it.