Watercolour Calendar Journaling

Some more in my watercolour calendar journal from August. Whenever I just can't decide how to start a page I get out my stencils. The left of this was sprayed through the stencil, and the right page was used to blot the remaining ink to get the stamped image

I loved those colours and decided to add some tape that would tone but add something else

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This tape is great in that it inspires me to add some pink next. I was watching a cool video from Teesha Moore over at the Artstronauts Club where she used ink in a water brush. I decided I'd like to try that to do some lettering so decanted some bubblegum pink

And here's the pink added to the page!

I went a bit crazy - partly because I loved the look of the pink, and its effect over the other ink, but also because I had more than I realised in the brush and didn't want to waste too much of it. Here's what happened on the other page

Then I went back to adding some more of the tape trim to my original page 

Happily, I went to see "The Hundred-Foot Journey" - happily because it's a lovely movie, and also because the tape tied in nicely with the Indian aspect. I also finished my Me Time Messages project that week.

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On the other page my flower got a bit more attention

My photos of my cards are a good record especially since these will be gifted away

I love the colour combinations in this spread...all because of the tape I added a the start :-)

You can see all my calendar journal pages in my flickr set HERE.