Book of Days : Gratitude Garden

I've been sharing art inspired by Alisa Burke's Grateful HeART journal prompts, but this week it took me in a completely different direction. Her prompt was "Gratitude Garden" and it reminded me that I never did the lesson from last year's BOD by that same title. I was also wondering what to do with the other side of the spread which I shared here. The base was sprayed with purple adirondack colourwash and while the ink was still wet, I sprinkled with granulated sea salt. Next morning when everything was dry, I was rewarded with this deliciousness. 

Since my facing page featured a lot of the purple, I decided I could overpaint quite happily. Began with some fluro paints 

and some of my new hand-carved rubber stamps 

plus pen doodles

Next up it was time to doodle flowers and I changed up the background to make them pop

 

This is now feeling like a night garden for me so that thought led me onto use some of my moonlight pens for highlighting

and metallics too

A quote from Rumi that fits with my word SHINE

and my gratitude garden is complete

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