WOYWW # 619 {aftermath}

 

Happy desk peeking day, if you'd like to see more spaces or play along 

the link up for this blog hop starts here at our hostess

Miss Julia's Blog.

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So lets see, I did do the paint a lavender field challenge last Wednesday night ( twice) so what you see there was the first panel that ended up looking more like wild lupine than lavender to me, I have not made made the decision to toss it or use it yet so, its waiting for its fate. the card to the right of that was something silly from Monday after work and I kept trying to add a sentiment to it but, it was just not working out so, I shot it as is and put in the gallery like that. ( faded water colored stenciling with a twist of use a silhouette from the CAS portion) the little Precious Moments girl with the type writer came in the mail on Tuesday night and so. this is what it looks like today, which will all have to be picked up tonight since tomorrow is a driving all day day, and I really should make a sample for the IC. and what is in my head needs drying time I think.  The finished lavender card can be seen here.

oh yes, I did get the second Moderna shot last Friday afternoon and by bed time my arm was a little sore and then I woke up during the night with a slight fever that really did continue for just about 24 hours and a little bit of body aches but, not like really being sick because, you feel it but, its not that utter I cant go from the bed to the sofa and back type feeling its more like a cold in your bones thing. and by Sunday I was stiff from all the huddling under blankets I did but, otherwise felt pretty normal. whew. I really thought that since I only had a sore arm the first shot the second one would be more of the same. it was for my MIL. so, who knows. at any rate I still have to get the second shingles shot in a few more weeks and then I can just take a big breath and not think so much about the shots them selves. kwim? it will just be done.  in exciting news my son is back in the states from the last deployment and is quarantined & will be home when that ends. that is something to really look forward to. That's about it from me, stay safe out there and thanks for stopping by. 

Inspired by {Sara Burnet}

 This week Kia has the Inspiration looking at Sara Burnet's pinterest boards and one thing I noticed ( just recently actually) is there seems to be a lot of lacy see-through wedding gowns lately. ( who knows how long this has been going on, I live under a rock remember) and anyways I had to laugh at my self because, I tend to lean towards the neutral boards and I found this lace dress on the book pages background. That she had saved from a free people brand clothes ad.

 So, using that as a jump start I started with a cream sheet of printed K&Co. paper ( its really old ) and then I ran a piece of cream parchment paper through a Crafter's Companion Vintage Venetian lace embossing folder. a while back there was a challenge to rub a black ( dark) ink pad over an embossed panel and it was very WOW looking. which is why I now own a lace embossing folder because, that was what was used for the example. funny how that works right? at any rate I did rub some Linen avery elle pigment ink over the parchment and then went digging in my box of stamps for a a dress to use over the top but, this emerson American Arts Stamps one kept whispering pick me, pick me, so I did. I colored her with a combination of copic, water based & glitter gel pens. the top piece at the top is some kraft corrugated paper that had been previously painted with pale green acrylic paint and I used it to anchor the panels like the hanger for the gown on the sample. You can find this challenge here at Splitcoaststampers to play along with us. Thanks for stopping by.

lavender fields

 This week Kia is hosting the watercoloring challenge and has linked to a lavender field tutorial. 

So, the challenge looked pretty straight forward to me & I jumped right in on that Wednesday evening. this is a break of drying times between panels. the top one with more paint on it was the first and the lavender looked more like Lupine to me. ha ha. so, I started going smaller with the petals on the second one which eventually became the card below. I did add the rock salt to dry on that first layer of hazy blooms in the background but, I did not see the dramatic results the tutorial author did. I did let these sit over night with what you see below and just added on the sentiment (simon says stamp you got this set) panel over the top the next day. The base is some shimmer stardream cardstock and its A7 in real life.

I ended up going back over the stems in the front and adding in some tiny leaves the way the ones in my garden are growing. I don't actually have grass in between the bushes but, I like the hazy dreamy idea of it so maybe the other greens are more like soft focus other plants. I had a really hard time with these colors as, mine is more of a silvery gray ish green on the plant that is very woody. and I had used similar colors shown in the tutorial for this. I think sometimes its easier to learn it following along at what they are showing you that way but, I think I may need other colors to try and mix the colors I wanted this was using the Munygo set I got last week in the mail and it does not have a Paynes gray in it. ( I have that) I think I am nearly to the point of thinking about buying a empty pan holding set and moving paints from this set and that set to get the colors I want in one box but, have not done anything but, think about it so far.

WOYWW # 618 { a litle bit of this and that}

 

Happy desk peeking day, if you'd like to see more spaces or play along 

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So Monday's happy mail was this little roll of self adhesive dots from Amazon that I am applying ink to 

and sticking on the ends of the ink pads like so, ( see below) some are very misleading from the stickers on the top of the pad to reality. for instance the Ranger Adirondack Mushroom index sticker is kind of a grey toned brown on top, the reality has a lot of pink in the ink to my eye. I don't remember where I seen the dots being used but, it could very well be Jennifer McGuire's blog.

 

So, that little pile of DOX on the table when I got home Tuesday was all that was left to do here. and then the pads that had no labels on them written or stickers now have stickers also. My regular Distress pads are all on top of the file cabinet and I think are the only ones left to do unless I do the little tiny 1 square pads and cats eyes. ( not sure about that yet but, I have a few of them now that seem to come in card making stamping kits from either Hero Arts or Simon Says Stamp and I really do not play with them much so, I probably should at least open them up and get a color idea of them. I did find some big pads that were just ruined. ( one Avery Elle mermaid pigment pad the pad had turned into something that resembled a wet mushy marshmallow) tossed it in the trash. not sure I will replace it as some of the DOX are close enough color wise I think. and I really like the DOX best for just messing around with colors. a few of the old SU dye pads the pads are not disintegrating but, they are changing color in a strange way compared to the others. one looks like it has the measles with spots of colors across the pad and the other looks like shoot I forgot. The funny part is the ink colors still look OK. 

Miss Izzy is turning 2 years old today. we spend part of every day walking in the pasture behind the barn now that we no longer have sheep. Drought conditions have already been declared for the county I live in this year ( the only county in this state) and there have already been fires. So, not having to worry about how we will be able to grow grass to feed sheep is a relief. ( hay cost dearly during extended droughts) so, we had fed all we had on hand last year up until the time we sold the herd. 

"Snow" crocus has started peeking up in the flower beds along with Daffodils and lily of the Valley bulbs. but, the gophers ate the tulips again. *sigh* someday hubs is going to make me some metal cage bulb holder things so I can try tulips again.I tend to forget about asking him in the fall when I should be planting bulbs. who knows, maybe this year :) 

Oh, I did play with those new watercolors and there are finished cards in the two posts between this one and last weeks WOYWW that show them. SO far so good, have not played with the brushes yet, one of them rattles where the metal band is near the bristles when you pick up the brush and it distracts me. have not looked at it closely enough to see if maybe crimping it with a pliers or something would stop that.

That's about it from me. I will get my second shot friday afternoon and am looking forward to having it behind me. but, our news has been saying this particular shot ( Moderna) is only good for 6 months. So, it sounds more like it will be something that needs a booster like a flu shot every so often. Stay safe out there and thanks for stopping by.

A silly thinking of you

 This weeks featured stamper is Cara Denise who has this pretty tulip collage card in her gallery that I used as a jump start for mine. You always need changes for that challenge so, mine has less layers and no embellishments. I did place the sentiment on the left lower corner as there was that cluster of butterflies there and I did add more water to this later when it was dry to get that dreamy look between the stems and leaves.

This card was requested by hubs for his older sister ( as they have always traded snarky sentiment cards for years) and he had seen this one ( Riley & Co. ) when it came in the mail a while ago. So, these tulips are actually a Penny Black stamp Tulip Queue stamped with that fade out ink on Strathmore 400 series watercolor paper. I did use that new set of paints from Mungyo again and used the same technique as the card before this one where it was supposed to be loose and abstract impressionist type style. So far so good on these new paints. I have not played with the brushes as of yet but, they rattle. when I pick them up the metal near the bristles rattles and that distracts me so, I probably should play with them soon but, I really need to clean off the table again first. Have been adding little to dots of color to the edges of my ink pads that are in holders so I can tell at a glance that that Adirondack pad that looks like a grey ish brown is really a pink ish brown kind of a thing. And I am feeling like I really want to just have a big purge let go of things that are not bringing me joy anymore too. so, we shall see. in reality that would be a huge undertaking to empty the closet to choose what would be allowed back into it again. Hope you are all doing well, thanks for stopping by.

Inspired by {Design Stack}

 This week the inspiration is headed to Design stack either their blog or Pinterest boards and I was looking through the painting section of the blog and found this colorful animals seen here. The direct link to the blue bird painting is below.

This is just a cell phone shot while it was drying and. So, the finished on a card is the bottom image here. The take-two using this tutorial Lydia made and shared for the Water coloring Wednesday challenge this week found here. The top image was the first try at this and I really liked how it looked so, I tried it again and liked the second one a little more to use as the finished piece for the Inspiration painting I found here as a jump start. I am not sure what I am going to do with the top image as I also like it and will probably do something with it.

I think this one is not so much of an impressionist version but, for the first time ever I am glad I own a fade out ink pad. ( when I bought this, I was more coloring with pencils at that time so my usual was to stamp images and haul them to work and color in the down time... so, when you open the thing and there are a lot of blank sheets of card stock that was too faint for me to see to color them I was not so thrilled with how fast they faded ha ha. so, finding out the ink is more resistant to water and the fact that when I am painting to color I stamp something right now and color right now that is a game changer for me.

I probably got a little carried away with adding brown splatters to this, and this was painted entirely from that new palette of paint I showed you the other day. so, not too shabby. the sentiment is from Hero Arts Many everyday messages set heat embossed with some liquid platinum powder on some blue linen card scrap and the painted panel is up on foam tape over the base. This one finished out at A7 in real life. The watercolor cardstock was cut with a Waffle flower A7 rectangle die and my mind has gone blank on which banner the sentiment was cut with. You can find this challenge here at SCS to play along with us.  I hope this Good Friday finds you all doing well, Thanks for stopping by.