Spring is in the air

 

 I'm back joining Valerie at Bastelmania, our host this month at Art Journal Journey.  Her theme is Spring.

Spring is definitely in the air.

Even the sentiment says so.

The little birds are surrounded by foreign (Russian) text.  Because the focal image is square, I'm joining River of Creativity's March Challenge #11, which is Anything Goes with the option of SQUARES.  Further, since the focal image is birds, I'm joining Craftlandia Challenge 10, hosted by Mia, Diana, and Ayla.

 

The birds are then surrounded by a second layer of paper.

 

I started this spread with a page of previously created shaving cream paper.  To that I tore a portion of a coffee dyed page from a Russian book, over which I added the focal image of birds on a tree branch I found in my stash.  I then computer generated the sentiment and colored it using dye ink. 

 

I am also joining Creative Artiste's 80th Challenge, where their theme is always Anything Mixed Media Goes.  To qualify for Creative Artiste, I must have a minimum of three mediums.  I began this spread by combining a sheet of shaving cream paper to a torn piece of Russian text I recently dyed with coffee.  The focal image was from my stash and the text/sentiment was colored using dye ink.

Thank you beyond belief for stopping by today.  Please also join Bleubeard and me at Art Journal Journey, Creative Artiste, Craftlandia Challenge 10, and River of Creativity.