Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Calendar challenge : March/April

Late posting this month because of my wonderful girls' weekend in Raumati. Will post about that next time.
First the March pages - as they began March finished. I had started these pages with NZ book month and the newspaper reports of the February Christchurch earthquake in mind, so decided to complete them with hearts since I love books, and I also made hearts for Christchurch this month.
My April pages have been inspired by thinking about holidays beside the beach - the first weekend being spent in Raumati, and during the easter school holidays we will be having a family holiday to Nelson and the West Coast for 10 days. The base was a wash of apricot acrylic paint, and I rubbed turquoise acrylic over that. Then a layer of glitter glue to make it all sparkly - it looks like sun on water, and also golden sands on the beaches we will see in Nelson. I decided tags would be appropriate with the travel theme - they have been sprayed with Starburst Spray : Saxifrage Olive Copper (I got mine from the Thread Studio) It was hard to take photos of the pages so I've included these close-ups to show the sparkle of the page bases and the tags as well. Looking forward to filling in the days when I know we have such happy times ahead.
To see other participants in the 2011 calendar challenge click on The Kathryn Wheel or go to the flickr group

8 comments:

  1. These pics are looking simple but they have designed beautiful.

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  2. Your March pages turned out wonderfully with the addition of those hearts and all your journaling :) I like the tag idea for April too.... lots of lovely shimmer on there!

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  3. Lovely pages, it's good to see march before and after. April looks gorgeous and shimmery. Very much like the tags for the days. Well done for keeping up so far!

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  4. I love seeing the before and after pages together, and seeing all the layers take on new lives!

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  5. I love these pages Lynette, i have a similar idea for May as your March and i love the tags for April x

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  6. What fab shiny pages for April - great idea using tags.

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  7. oooooh tiny tags! Love these! :-)

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  8. great pages, love the shimmery gold for april x

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