Borders and Birds

Documented Life, March Theme, Making Your Mark (Doodles & Mark Making) - March 14
Art Challenge:  Borders - Journal Prompt:  "Borderline feels like I'm going to lose my mind."

I just got these Bird Crazy stamps from Tim Holtz and the Scribbly Flowers from Dina Wakley and HAD to use them. I taught a class in colored pencils on Friday and used these stamps as sample coloring. So, I cut them out to add to this journal page. The background is from a really pretty napkin that my student/friend brought me. I just loved the happy colors. For my border, I added some Washi tape and then some red gellato. Isn't that color just yummy? This page is all about love/friendship. What would we do without these lovely people in our lives?

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I found that stencils are a whole lot less expensive when you buy them from the paint department at places like Home Depot. This was one I picked up yesterday for less than two dollars by Tracy Moreau from Americana that I sprayed with Dylusions in Pink Fuchsia into my Paperblanks journal. Then I added the background color with Neocolor crayons and blended with a baby wipe. I added the bird and flower with a stencil, Everyday Fun by Show-Offs, and heavy-body white acrylic, then a blue Gelato. I added some cutouts over the wing, flower and tailfeathers from some paper I had done Gelli printing on. Stamped notes (Stampendous) and butterfly (Sarah Beise), words with green Faber-Castell green Pitt pen and white accents with Molotow Pen.