Watercolour Calendar Journaling

What a wonderful week it's been - the sun continues to shine on us, although a storm is brewing for the weekend - make the most of today I say. First joy - my eldest son is doing really well with his basketball and had another success on the weekend by getting into the Under 15 rep squad. On Tuesday I had my wonderful win of 4 free classes with Alisa Burke. Finished Friday with my youngest son getting 46 runs not out and taking 5 wickets at their school 20/20 game! It all went in the calendar journal...
One of the things that surprised me this week was how easy it was to dip my water brush into watercolour paint and write the day in free-hand! Worked well for Sunday - you can see I also added watercolor to a stamped journal spot

and I repeated the watercolour brush word for Tuesday - and there's that magic pencil again

Wednesday's white crayon as a resist was just one of the ideas from watching this Vimeo about making watercolor backgrounds from Alisa Burke. 

Finished off the week with watercolour paints applied to a hand-carved stamp and some foam letters.

I think my completed page reflects my joyful week :-) 

Have yourself a great weekend. You can see all my calendar journaling pages in my flickr set HERE

More Free Class Inspirations

Had to share these :: 
Julie Fei-Fan Balzer has just finished an amazing whole week of free webcasts demonstrating her stenciling techniques. Link to all of them HERE

Jennibellie has started a new online class network - Free to join and she has a free class on offer to start with - it's called Inspiraton Station :

and the first of this year's free Strathmore workshops has just begun : Back to Basics with Earnest Ward

I've added all of the above to my ongoing list of free online art classes - you can always get to that list over there on my right sidebar below the link to my Flickr.
And I'm always inspired by Alisa Burke - it's her birthday and all week she has her online classes for sale $10 off...I was seriously thinking about her watercolor bliss class since I've been loving Doodle Delight so much, but then the unbelievable happened...I entered her giveaway on Monday and I was a winner!!!! I get to do these 4 online classes for free!

I am so excited....so happy...can you see me dancing with joy over here? Completely and utterly inspired....now for some focused creative time. I need to get Doodle Delight finished by March 28th ready for my first free class. Eeek :-)

Birthday card

with co-ordinating envelope