The month of May

I can't believe how quickly this year is going.  It's May already and the beginning of the third month of challenges on 12 Months in View.

Today's challenge was to produce a journal page based on any information or the quotes on the Introduction to May blog post.

I chose to use the quote: Spring is God's way of saying, One more time.

I sprayed blue ink through a stencil and without moving the stencil sprayed White Linen.  I sprayed a small amount of the blue and the white linen at the top of the page and then sprayed water.  I stood up the book so that the inks would move down the page.

I used a Dina Wakley stencil and some Distress Ink to stencil over the top.

I sprayed the whole page with yellow ink.

I stamped at the bottom of the page and stencilled with green distress ink.

I printed out the first part of the quote, cut it up and inked it before sticking it on the page.  I stamped the words one more time with black Archival and then went round the letters with a white or red pen. It probably needs some white highlights on the flowers and leaves at the bottom of the page.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

Text in a shape

On Friday over on 12 Months in View, Valerie Sjodin shared a technique video with us.

And here is my version of creating text in a shape.

Messy Little Details

My friend Carolyn has started a new weekly Meme.  She has called it Messy Little Details.  

This is what Carolyn has to say about it:
"Each week I will share one of these photos, something that caught my eye and I had to photograph. A simple thing. A detail. A colour. A texture. The post will be short, a photo and a few sentences at most, it is the photo and the reason I had to take it that I want to share."

And we can join in too!  By sharing a photo from our blogs or from Flickr with the linky she is attaching to her blog.   Go on, join in.  You know you want to!

I haven't taken many photos recently.  I know, shock! horror!  But life got in the way a bit.  However I do have some older photos (last Autumn) from the wool museum in Wales.

I took this photo because it reminded me of the past - of my childhood and of the more recent past - well 10 years ago - when I did more sewing! And I love the colours!  And how great that the aqua appeared almost on a sweet spot according to the rule of thirds!

Thanks for popping by.
Bernice