Tuesday, May 1, 2012

All Things Seem Possible in May

Ah, the beginning of a new month. And here in Alaska I could actually see little, tiny, leaf buds on the trees today. Cause for great excitement!!. After all the cold and snow we had this winter, many of us thought spring would be a long time coming, but this is almost early for us.

The lovely, talented, and Ranger U educated Kate Crane invites us to her blog, The Kathryn Wheel  each month to post our on-going calendars. Kate has been hosting this challenge for a few years and it's a fabulous journey. I use it to record my artistic endeavors of the month, what I'm working on, sometimes why I'm not working on anything, what I'm doing, etc. For May I'm celebrating green!


I played with my Dylusions spray inks....what a gas. Such vibrant, sassy, amazing colors. Just love 'em. I've found that a coat of glaze on top of the finished piece makes writing oh, so smooth. So after I spritzed, misted with water, dried, and used a touch of black paint with a very dry paint brush, I put a quick little coat of glaze on top of the background.


The design is pretty basic...please note my ode to the mosquito (got my first one today!). All the little white dots and the bird are Ranger white enamel which I like a lot...very glossy...comes in white and black - the black is way cool around Halloween. The bird was a bit too white though, so I popped a bunch of seed beads in its tail and body. This is all a result of thinking about the design for about, oh, maybe a fraction of a second. It started to rain this afternoon...so I used the umbrella. One of those things.

I had the most fun with the journal blocks. Dylusions spray inks again, but in lighter colors, more water, and more blotting. I used Gesso instead of white acrylic on top of the stencils, and liked that technique better.


In the end I have to say, May looks more like me. I love that I got a nice, light, creamy yellow for April because I tried pretty darn hard to do that, but I just couldn't use one ink color for journaling and had to put some pictures in from my trip to Los Angeles. It got a bit busier than I kind of pledged to do at the beginning of the month...oh well.


Hope you all have a great month of May!!


17 comments:

  1. Lovely vibrant May pages. Great textures.

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  2. Super pages. Lovely bright colours for spring, although not too sure what the weather is like in Alaska and if there is a lot of greenery to view. Hope it's a good month for you x

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  3. Lovely lovely lovely May pages Sara :D I've chosen a green theme this month too. I like how you used photo's on your April page - great fun!

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  4. YUM!!! Love that fabulous vibrant shade of green!!

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  5. oh wow, such bright spring colors! absolutely gorgeously yummi!

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  6. beautiful green pages, so vibrant on a grey wet day x

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  7. Hello Sara, thanks for visiting my blog and for your kind comments. I really love your May page, so lush and fresh! And I like that you added pictures to your April page :-)
    Big love
    AJ

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  8. Oh, such great pages. I really like your layouts and those green squares are gorgeous.

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  9. Your green pages are especially fabulous. I've just started playing with Dylusions inks...such fun

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  10. I love your pages. Love the greens and your little bird!

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  11. Beautiful pages for both April and May. I love how you have described your technique as well, I might have to try that glaze idea!
    Also loved the photos of your craft room in the post above! x

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  12. beautiful pages, loev the green colours

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  13. Gorgeous pages... love all the color on top of color.... yum!

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  14. April and May are outstanding - great colours and so cheerful

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  15. LOVIN' the green and the cute birdie with the umbrella (and hey, don't we need an umbrella?!!).

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  16. Ooh gorgeous colourful May! Love the green! Well done for keeping up with the calendar - only the hardcore calendar journalers are left in now LOL!

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  17. This is lovely, the green is soo cool!!

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