Anything Goes Theme for Art Journal Journey

 Happy Thursday everyone, it is a cold rainy day today. We did get out of the house this morning for our 6 month blood work, and then we stopped by our friends that visit us often here at the lake.

  I have been concentrating on my fibers-spinning every day for a few weeks now-I am seeing some improvements being made-finally.

 I have been wanting to make a page for Valerie's theme this month and since Spring is arriving this month, I decided to do a Spring page for her Anything Goes theme.

    I grabbed a watercolor sheet from my watercolor spiral book, my own  made botanical inks, and looked in my stamp drawers and chose three.

  I inked the stamps with a black ink pad, once dry I grabbed the box of my botanical inks and my glass dip pen.

   I am pleased with the results The botanical inks I used were matcha, blackberry, blackberry with vinegar, blackberry with baking soda, hibiscus, hibiscus with turmeric and soda ash, avocado, orange mandarin, black walnut. For the stone pavers I used black calligraphy ink from Japan All with the glass dip pen-more precise for me than a paint brush

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  Once dry I glued down inside my German cookbook-now art journal book

I love the colors of these botanical inks

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