W is for......................

The letter for this fortnight over at the Craft Barn's dictionary challenge is W. Last week I had a wonderful day out with my daughter at Bird World in Surrey. Daisy is just the right age now to adore all the animals and birds there especially the babies.
There was just a complete sense of wonder on her face as she experienced all this excitement.

 We watched a bird display

 and our favourite was this amazing snowy owl who flew silently over our heads

I just loved these 3 photos of my sweet granddaughter, she is just entranced by the birds.

So there are no prizes for guessing  that my W is for wonder. I wanted to capture this wonderful day in my art journal.  I sorted out some of my bird stamps and a splendid sentiment I won from my crafting buddy Di in Pixie's playground.

 I stamped and white embossed the PA bird silhouette to represent the snowy owl and stamped my VI feathers in archival inks. I stamped and black embossed my sentiment.

I chose some summery distress inks and amongst my ink choices were the pink and blue of Daisy's little shorts and T shirt.

I used the greens and yellows to blend a background. I love the way the birds resist the ink and look a little like the snowy owl we wondered at.

I then added the blue and pink through my TH floral stencil to build up some bright layers of ink.

I couldn't choose between 3 of my photos of Daisy so I made a collage of all of them.

Then it was time to put on my creative hat....and here is my finished piece.

Here is my sentiment and you can see I added lots of other little birds too.

 There is such a sence of wonder in these photos.

I would like to enter my art journal page into the following challenges;

Pixie's snippets playground #236 I used snippets of card for my little birdie die cuts.
The Craft Barn dictionary challenge w mine is for wonder
Anything but Cute the birds and the bees
Love to create 1/2 #14
Sweet stampin holidays/summer
Noor anything goes
The Artistic stamper all things bright and beautiful
Dies r us outdoor fun
Live and love crafts sprinkles of summer
Cupcake inspiration flowers #365

I am driving down to Southampton today to pick up Daisy from nursery as her Daddy is working away this week. It's a real bonus week for me as we were only down there on Saturday.

There is something back this morning though......this was my view at 8am from my back door....

yay...summer is back...just in time for the second week of Wimbledon..let's hope we get a flaming July as June was such a wash out. Enjoy the week ahead.

Wishing all my friends across the pond a very happy 4th July.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x