Two-fer Tuesday

Shannon has this challenge to create this background by smooshing acrylic paint in between two smooth non porus surfaces. It's real name is Dendritic and you can find a video of how to do it in the challenge thread here.   I used a CD case that had been pried apart. My first two prints I had too much paint and it ended up blobby looking, the second impressions were better by the time the paint starts drying though it does not smoosh as much. This card follows the rules of what is needed, It has no glitter, metal, anything sharp on it. Its a thank you card and the sentiment off to the left is glued to the inside. the wreath was over stamped over the dried paint as was the sentiment that was then heat embossed over that. ( versafine has never dried over paint for me) so, I just heat emboss it like a reflex now. the finger print doodle is from a Simon Says Stamp set and I did that on a scrap of kraft and cut it out with scissors so, I could pop it up with foam dots.

 So my favorite was on the paper bag paper for the contrast and that is what became the card drive card for the Ronald McDonald house. You can find the address and rules for this drive here.
I really love this one and I am sure I will be doing more of it. 

Bev has a challenge to do masking ( but, to do a type of masking you do not "always" do, and I "always" use sticky notes or papers...
So, out came this Windsor newton liquid masking fluid I ordered a year or two ago online and never opened. sometime after I bought it I read online that this stuff just smells horrible. ( and my mind thought oh Stazon ink horrible you know ice pick to the brain smell) and so, it was not as brave as you would think it would be to open it after all this time... We are surrounded with forest fire smoke again so, I cannot smell anything today.

I had no expectations of what to see when I did this, so what I found is... the stuff is goopy. thick and goopy more so than say tombo mono multi wet glue. so I used an old paint brush (same one I use for liquid glue) and daubed it onto the leaves of the Hero Arts wreath. ( cell phone shots have wonky colors but that wreath is stamped on cream paper) I set it aside to dry and worked on the paint smooshing and when that was all done, this felt dry enough patting it with my finger I did not see anything on my finger so I over stamped this with a background and a juicy pigment pad and I did have some pretty big Halo's around the leaves. I then just rubbed the liquid mask off with my finger.
I am halfway wondering if this paints on a little thinner if you use it when you first buy it, if it is going to just continue to harden in the jar but, really I have no way of knowing until the next time I open the bottle.

So, by this point the paint had completely dried on the cd covers, the paint brush and the other paint brush, but this is the reason why I never just ran down the stairs to wash it all off and do some more. Grace hardly ever climbs up the stairs to the hobby room this last year and I didnt have the heart to Disturb her nap.
but, after dinner I did manage to clean up all this mess that has been growing since Sunday. photographic evidence will be posted and linked to the whats on your Wednesday work desk blog hop tomorrow morning. Thanks for stopping by.