Welcome to Wednesday and today’s MidWeek Muse video where I’m back at it, working on my Creativity Calendar Journal for the months of April and May.

This time rather than stick with the individual blocks and confine those days to one page spread, I worked a bit differently with April, allowing it to spill over to four. I arranged the 30 days so that they fit in those four spreads and I am very happy with the results. Each is quite different, which I really like, and I’m demoing lots of techniques and providing explanations of what I did and how I did it. At the very end you’ll see a glimpse of my May spread, which returns to the regular one month per spread format. This one too is quite different, with flowers being the focus. Pale pastels rule May, with subtle shimmer on the individual 1 1/2″ squares that represent the days. It’s soft, feminine, and really pretty.

Supplies For This Video:

Strathmore Art Journals: I used style #483-7 with 140# watercolor pages measuring 7 3/4″ x 9 3/4″

Daler Rowney FW Pearlescent Inks

Princeton 1″ Oval Mop Brush

Dina Wakley’s Scribbly Birds Unmounted Stamps

90# Watercolor Paper

StazOn Black Ink

Tim’s Detail Waterbrush

Color Wash Sprays

Dylusions Ink Sprays

Uni Signo Broad White Pen

Stampotique Originals Calendar Square Cube Stamp

PITT Pens

Distress Paint

Stickles Glitter Glues

Dylusions Doodled Delight & Fancy Florals Unmounted Stamp

Alphabet Stamp Sets

Gelly Roll Pens

Zig Kuretake White Cartoonist Ink

Gesso

Joggles Dotted Grid Stencil

Princeton #4 Fan Brush

6″ x 6″ Scrapbook Paper Pads

Ideaology Chit Chat Stickers

Aleene’s Thick Designer Tacky Glue