Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Free Create Day


I LOVE when I have a 
FREE CREATE DAY....
when I don't have a creative assignment...
and I GET TO CHOOSE 
what I want to play with!!

YESTERDAY was one of those days...



I had a package of
(2) Pack of Color Burst
some The Crafter's Workshop stencils
Stencil Folk Art Flower
Repeating Pods
Layered Flower Bits
a jar of Perfect Paints 

....and I let the creative process flow!

For all the cards,
I applied various Color Burst colors
to the Water Media Card.
I love that you can soak these cards and they
stay FLAT!
Then I stenciled over the the colored background

From there I tried something different on each card.
For this card I painted on Yellow Gold ~ Liquid Metallics
over the Polishing Plaster.


For the second card....
I JUST LOVED
how the Color Burst seeped into the Polishing Plaster
to cause a "transparent" look.


....see!
I chose to leave this background AS IS!


For the last card I painted over the Polishing Plaster
with various colors from the Earthtones 6-Pack.


All three of my cards have sentiments from
Impression Obsession / Yvonne Blair Designs
stamped on CCB Kraft Cardstock with
Ranger ~ Archival Ink ~ Watering Can.



For my second card I painted UmWowStudio chippies 
with Gesso, then painted on a bit of the
Earthtone Color Burst.
Added a few Petaloo Blooms!




The last card....



I hope you have enjoyed my creative journey!
It felt AMAZING to free create!!

Friday, July 1, 2016

Do All Things.....

HELLO MY FRIENDS!
It is the 4th of July weekend
and my boy is coming home for 2 weeks
LIFE IS GOOD!

I wanted to share with you
my latest 'TOVER....
I had been working on this project for
and had some unused goodies
I just couldn't throw out!


So, I used them to create this card.
I had applied leftover
to a card created from 


Now the 'TOVERS on my card are....
the paper flower created using
I cut the layers from
and a piece of vintage curtain,


....and Petaloo's Paintable Mini Pearl Daisies
which I had colored with diluted

I stapled on a piece of 
that I had painted black.


When I was manhandling the piece of
 I saved the fibers I pulled and
used them behind my flower!


For the card background
I splattered on a bit of India Ink
and did a bit of ghost stamping.


The whole inspiration for my card is
the tag from the
DO ALL THINGS WITH LOVE!!

WISHING EVERYONE A SAFE AND HAPPY
HOLIDAY WEEKEND.....
I know mine will be!