March Calendar

I have been taking part in Kate Crane's Art Journaling Calendar on and off for a couple of years.

And I started this year with good intentions and managed to prepare the January page but never actually filled it in.

February passed me by completely.

Over on 12 Months in View I suggested that people might join in with Kate's calendar idea, which has kickstarted my calendar.

I put white acrylic paint over the pages and when it was dry I put some lemon distress ink on direct from the pad.

I spread the yellow around the page and then dried it with a heat gun.  I added other colours, each time drying the colour before adding the next.


I used the Distress Inks through stencils and Punchinella using a foam pad.


Then I stamped the flowers with Adirondack orange ink and the quote and the month with black Archival.

Instead of squares of paper, or stamped squares, I stamped daffodils, one for each day of March.  I painted in the flowers with Lemon ReInker and the stems with Dylusions Lime using a paintbrush.  In the photo you can see the difference between the painted ones and the ones I hadn't done.

Be warned though.  The ReInker took a very long time to dry and I had patted it with paper towel, used the heat gun and left it to air dry.  I added the March Hares.

And here's a closeup with some writing.

Now all I have to do is remember to fill it in every evening!

Thanks for popping by.

Bernice