Inspired by {Ruby Clay Co.}

 This week as the year winds down to the close the last Inspiration Destination that Amy is sharing is heading to Ruby Clay Company. And as I started poking around in the shop, I happened across this tray and started to smile as I had very similar shades of blue on a palette from doing the winter scene color for the watercolor challenge earlier in the week and decided to just roll with it. 

 abstract things do not come easy to me but, from what I remembered and what I did when I actually walked form the computer to the table are slightly different things. I remembered really loose squiggly sprig type things but, what started coming out of my hand was things that started to look like pine trees haha so, I painted over the tops of them making them bigger and more leaf like. when this dried I thought it needed a little more so I hit it with splatters ( very tiny) and more paint. 

I am thinking there may have been one more layer of paint over this before I die cut this twice with some Penny Black stitched nested frames dies. I did line the edges of the die cutting with an gold paint Deco Color paint pen for Calligraphy. ( these seem to last longer for me than the Krylon paint pens) 

It's almost funny how differently the cell phone (top two photos) sees the colors than the DSLR camera ( bottom shot.) The center part of the panel is up on foam pop dots and the little diecut sentiment ( red lead paperworks) was diecut with some circle die ( probably Hero Arts) The base here is some balmy blue from Stampin' Up! finished out at A2 in real life. I intend to use this as a Thank You card. That's about it from me, if you'd like to play along with us you can find this challenge here at SCS. Thanks for stopping by.