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.

Rande's skinny pages

I finally finished these pages for Rande. I didn't have anything rusty to add to her pages, so created some rusty looks with color and a grunge tag. I layered the backgrounds with postcards, ledger paper and napkins.

don't worry... be happy - Month 2

Here's a continuation of my "Balance" Journal. Just wanted to be playful and happy because these winter months have been rough. Gave this a child-like quality with rough brush strokes and a heart balloon. I found a quote for this month's lesson, and while it didn't fit on this page, it's waiting for another journal page: "We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have" - Frederick Keonig. Enjoy what's left of the month! Happy Journaling!