Green Pepper Press -- Summer colors continues!

Ok, after all my experimenting with new summer colors, I had to do my favorite summer color - AQUA!! These pages were inspired by having coffee on my deck this morning. The birds were singing and the tree I planted years ago is so big!! Enjoy!

Green Pepper Press Street Team - Crusade #52

I joined the Green Pepper Press Crusade this month. Michelle challenged us to think about our color palette and if it changed during the seasons. I love all colors, but my summer palette is usually aqua with celadon, lavender and sky blue. If you scroll down and see the mermaids for Cat -- those pages pretty much show my summer palette. However, this challenge inspired me to try something new! I tried a different palette of pale ale (inspired by a new spray ink) combined with celadon and dusty plum. I sprayed the entire page with pale ale, spraying over wildflower masks. Then added the layering of colors, images and paper. There's very little contrast on the pages, but I'm glad I tried some new yummy colors for summer.

Find out more about Michelle's inspiration at:

http://michelleward.typepad.com/how_cool_is_that/

Happy summer mermaids

This is the final set of pages for the skinny book round robin. It look me awhile to find mermaids images, which I normally don't have, for Cat's book! I feel like these kick off the summer for me! The backgrounds were created with some stencils and spray inks we played with in my journaling classes.

Happy Mother's Day

My favorite photo of Lauren and my Mom.

Happy Easter

Time to dye my eggs with onion skins! Here's this year's batch.

Green Pepper Press Street Team - Crusade #50

I joined Michelle Ward's Crusade this month. The challenge: create journal pages documenting your go-to people. I chose the slide holder page because I wanted to include all my friends I reach out to for encouragement, advice and fun! Many of the tags were dyed with Easter-egg dye -- a trick I learned from Michelle. I wrote my thoughts about each dear friend on the back of each tag. You'll notice I left some empty tags for adding more friends later!

Find out more about Michelle's Crusade at http://michelleward.typepad.com/how_cool_is_that/

Poppies

Inspired by the Somerset Studio Poppy Issue. Paper napkins, pigment ink, watercolor crayons, rice paper and washi paper.