April showers

Colour me positive 

Medium mauve frame. Image: leaping figure. Quote: If you want to fly you've got to give up all those things that are weighing you down.

Art journal journey 

Image: boots/shoes. Word: grounded. Prompt: list 5 adjectives & use then in a story, poem or journal entry. Technique: incorporate footprints or shoes on your page. Quote: keep your feet on the ground when your head is in the clouds/ the thing that keeps you grounded is doing the things you love.

Life documented 

1. April theme: rejuvenation  - butterflies. Prompt:  To recreate a collage using butterflies. Technique:  Use scrap papers and whatever you have in your stash - make it emerge into something quite beautiful!  Quote:  Never Lose hope, the butterfly is proof that beauty can emerge from something completely falling apart.  Jane Lee Loga

Paper scraps from my desk, diecut butterflies using positive & negative 

ART PROMPTS GALORE 

 

MARCH 26-APRIL 1: baubles, beads and buttons// scavenger: Blue, yellow, something that starts with M, torn pieces of patterned paper, splashes of white paint, something from your stash, postage stamp, three words, random marks.

Every inchie Monday 

This week we are back in Europe and a country much closer to me although I have only ever been there once way back in the mists of time.....we had a stopover in Frankfurt on our maiden flight to Libya back in July 1960!

Germany ......frauleins & beer steins, Bavarian beer cellars & Adolf Hitler, Berlin's Brandenburg gate/ under den linden/ checkpoint Charlie, Black Forest gateau & sauerkraut. I've gone with a map, flag, steins of beer & a postage stamp of the Branbenburg gate!