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. 

Oh Deer!

 

Blogger not only won't let me leave comments on many blogs, it also won't let me publish my annual accountability post.  Blogger is telling me it is already published, although, once it refused to publish, I made sure the date was for 2022. Instead, I have now scheduled it for the 5th.

Instead I'm joining a couple of challenges, one of which is Erika's Let's Face It theme at Art Journal Journey, and Mia's Craftlandia Challenge, which is deer.

 Here is my sad interpretation of the challenge.  Sad because of my dying scanner.

Although the background is black watercolor paper, my scanner shared all its lines and defects.  Note to self: next time I have a black background, don't use the scanner!

My poor deer!

There seems to be a ghost in the cabin.

I started with 90 lb. black watercolor paper to which I added pages from two different foreign book pages I "aged" using two different processes.  For the bottom page, I used old make-up I was given to use in my art.  For the top page, which I know is German, I used a water soluble crayon, then outlined it with the same dye ink that I used to create the deer.

Originally the deer was supposed to look like it was attached to the wooden wall.  However, since I'm not good at stamping, and I don't have one of those stamping platforms where you can stamp over and over and over, I had to make due with what I had.  Because it looked like a ghost print, rather than a first print, I decided to call it the ghost in Cabin 13.  I was trying to make lemonade out of lemons, I guess!

Thank you ever so much for visiting today.  Bleubeard and I are delighted you joined us and hope to see you this month at Art Journal Journey with your own take on Erika's Let's Face It and at Mia's Craftlandia Challenge 9 which runs through January 12.    Now let's see if Blogger lets me schedule it, so I can finally get some sleep.