June in Janet's World - #SoCS - Escapist Coloring Club

Hey all!  We've transitioned to summer.  I love the warm weather but ours has been in the 80's and 90's which is too hot for my poor hubby.  We got an evaporation fan but of course as soon as we did the temperatures dropped.  Go figure.

The prompt for today's Stream of Consciousness Saturday is "leaves."  Before June "leaves" us, I thought I should post my entries to the Escapist Coloring Club.    Linda, whatever would I blog about if you weren't so good at organizing these?

Most of the time I use markers to color with.  Sometimes I outline first with the markers and then color the inside with colored pencils.  For these two I used metallic gel pens.  I have to be careful to let the ink dry before putting my hand over that part or the ink gets all over and smudges.  The pictures don't show it well but they have a metallic sheen to them. 

Lots of "leaves" in all my coloring.  I like to two-tone them too.  I'm making these to use as backgrounds in cards and things.  I am getting quite a collection though so maybe I better stop coloring and do some card making!  Happy Saturday all.       

Amazing August

August 2 -

I love when things come together so easily.  I'm pretty sure the whole month won't work out this way, so I'll take the easy when I can.

Today's prompt for August Break 2016 is "Leaf."  That means one leaf to me, not leaves, so I didn't want to just go in the yard and take a picture of the leaves (you would not really want to see my backyard it its current state anyway.  We fancied up the house itself; the yard is another story, but I digress).

In my emails this morning, I got one from Michaels that proclaimed it was National Coloring Book Day.  I have always liked to color, sometimes even more than the kids when they were growing up.  I have been coloring in the "adult" coloring books for a while now and have several different ones going on.

How does all this connect to the prompt of "Leaf" you ask?

From my years of experience working in the library as a "page" (someone who puts the books away), I know that a page in a book is called a "leaf."  (You might know that too, even if you didn't work in a library.  Good for you!)

When I color in my adult coloring books, I usually start with the leaves.  I like the varying shades of green and I like to mix markers with colored pencils.

Again, though, the prompt was "leaf" not "leaves" so I didn't want to just use those pictures.  Instead, below is a "leaf" of the coloring book I am working on right now!  

Like the way I did that?  You may have learned two things today, August 2 is National Coloring Book Day and a leaf is a page in a book (three if you didn't know that the person who puts the books away in the library is a "page").

Hope your August is also Amazing.  We are going to see Adele tonight.  So excited.  Follow along with the August Break prompts all month and it's not too late to join in if you want to play as well, just click on the link above.