Magical Journal Journeys

Tammy's Art Journal

Happy Summer Solstice!

If you are in the southern hemisphere, by contrast, this will be your darkest day of the year

so I hope you will be able to soak up some much needed sunshine by visiting

the blogs of we northerners who are honoring the summer solstice!

June is my favorite month, so I love that I can post my pages in Tammy's journal today.

My pages are all about the seasons of Spring and Summer.

Tammy's colors are Black, White, and Tan

and I admit that although I tried to stick to that completely, 

some color did sneak in here and there!

I love this tiny gardener and have been saving her for something special.
She is from IrelandRoseNostalgia on Etsy.

Below is a short page I added to separate the Spring and Summer pages.

I had fun finding photos that could be viewed through the "window".

The spiral binding in Tammy's book made it easy to stitch in the extra page.

I love all things Edwardian, so I was happy to find the photo of 

this old fashioned picnic. No sunscreen available in those days. 

Not much chance of a sunburn though...the ladies are all bundled up and wearing big hats!

I'm wondering about the huge veils on their hats. Was this for when it gets "buggy"?

I hope Tammy enjoys these pages...I know she loves gardens, and Summer, too.

I thought I would feel restricted using not much color (I am a color maniac!)

but I really enjoyed stepping out of my comfort zone.

That's been one of the fun things about the journal swap we are doing.

The owner of each journal has chosen the colors we must work in,

so needless to say, most of us have stepped a bit away from 

our favorite colors from time to time.

I headed over to Paint Party Friday this morning, and was amazed to see

that my entry for last week's PPF was chosen by random generator

to be featured this week! Thank you Eva and Kristin!!

I will be linking this to PPF this week.

A lot of collage, but I hope there is enough painting to qualify for PPF.
Happy PPF!

Enjoy the Summer Solstice!

What will you do on this longest day of the year?