I'm Hopping mad ...for Spring :D

The lovely Dawn has re-started her Journal Journey's challenge today, and the opening prompt just had to be SPRING :D

Being a "Mad March Hare" myself, this is the image I always see at the start of spring....my spiral Hare totem :D

I've started putting the finished piece up first, so if you don't want to dredge through the layers with me that's cool!
Watched Tee Thompson of Green Isles Crafts make a book cover last night, and it inspired me to do the "many layers of paint" thing for my page :D

Layer #1 blob some paint on your page and smoosh! Let it dry(with hair-dryer if impatient)
Layer #2 Dabbed on another colour with natural sponge, not too much pressure or you just smoosh again. Let it dry.
Layer #3 take a pencil and write all over the page. Something inspirational is good, I went for the lyrics to "Oh what a beautiful morning..." think it's from Oklahoma the musical(I sing it to my garden)
Layer #4....in the time honoured tradition of mixed media...cover all that loveliness with white acrylic, and wipe off as much as you can !!! I used kitchen paper and cellophane to get texture as I lifted off the white :D
While that was drying, I decided I wanted to stencil my next layer. I have lots of stencils, but wanted a band of butterflies down my page, so I grabbed my peel off waste...
Layer #5 stick peel off waste to page and daub paint over it. The sponge sticks cost about £1 from the kiddie craft section.
peel off peel off and VOILÀ ! a butterfly border :D I deliberately put thicker paint at the bottom and faded up the page (honest :S)
I did the same on the opposite page, just using the waste from a flower selection instead of butterflies.

Now it was time to add my Hare. A quick sketch directly onto the page, drawn over with a green inktense pencil, and the spiral coloured with a white Stabillo All pencil.
I picked out a few words from the sub-text, "beautiful/golden/meadow/my" and finished with ANTICIPATION
Still looked a bit flat though....so Layer#6 added glitter to the Hare and the highlighted page elements, and stamped all over with teeny flowers and TH Distress ink "worn Lipstick"
Close-ups of stamping and glitter :D
And remember...it's SPRING!!! Your allowed to get down and dirty in the garden! Enjoy :D XXX