Thursday, March 24, 2016

The Birds

It has been such a long time since I posted anything to this blog!  It hasn't been because I stopped scrapping - far from it!  But as we all know, life frequently gets in the way of things and blogging was one activity that went by the way side over the past two years.  The most significant change in our lives has been a move from the suburbs to the rural life of a 14-acre hobby farm.  The other major change was my loosing my job six months ago but that's far more depressing to discuss than the farm so I'll stick to that for now!  I'll start posting more about the farm in the coming weeks but in the meantime, I decided to post the latest spring happenings - the return of the birds.

This time of year we get literally hundreds of birds out our back of every variety - the typical cardinal, sparrow, and blue birds but also warblers, red-crested woodpeckers, great horned owls, and many more (many of which we have yet been able to identify).  And like many areas, we get the black birds and grackles.  Thankfully the onslaught of these is only occasional as I don't think I could handle the cacophony any more frequently.  Despite the noise, I still appreciate the spectacle - after all, we moved out here to better appreciate all the amazing things that rural life brings, even if it sometimes feel Hitchcock-esque!

The layout for this was inspired by a Sketch+3 challenge at Scrap Our Stash that was a sketch plus three items from a list - I chose Graph paper (the tag on the left), Heidi Swapp (the tiny tags from a 2012 Tiny Tag pack), and Ivory (the background).

Thanks for looking!






8 comments:

  1. I really love the mix of colors and patterns on this page. The whole page looks fabulous and that journaling around the outside is just awesome! Thanks for joining us at Scrap Our Stash!

    ReplyDelete
  2. Awesome work! Thank you for sharing with Scrap Our Stash!

    ReplyDelete
  3. Love all the layering and the natural color palette you have chosen. Also really like the framing of the journaling around the edge. Nice work with the sketch and stash challenge. Thanks for playing at SOS!!

    ReplyDelete
  4. Beautiful fayout. Love the little banner at the top. Thanks for joining us at Scrap Our Stash!

    ReplyDelete
  5. Such a beautiful layout! I love the color combo, and the journaling around the outside edges - how cool!! Great take on the sketch and challenge - thanks for playing along with us at Scrap Our Stash!!

    ReplyDelete
  6. Beautiful page! Love the colours! Thank you for joining us at Scrap Our Stash! Åsa xx

    ReplyDelete
  7. What a wonderful take on the sketch challenge. Thank you for joining us at Scrap Our Stash.

    ReplyDelete
  8. Beautiful page and great take on the challenge! Thanks for playing along with us at SOS! X

    ReplyDelete