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

  Ken Oliver'sKraft & Water-Media Cards

(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

with Perfect Paints Polishing Plaster ~ Organic Sugar.

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

Everyday Quotes 2

stamped on CCB Kraft Cardstock with

Ranger ~ Archival Ink ~ Watering Can.

For my second card I painted UmWowStudio chippies 

Fortune Teller Mash

Home Grown Mash

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!!

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

UmWowStudio

and had some unused goodies

I just couldn't throw out!

So, I used them to create this card.

I had applied leftover

Perfect Paints Polishing Plaster ~ Cayenne

through UWS ~ Handwriting Stencil

to a card created from 

CCB ~ Kraft Cardstock.

Now the 'TOVERS on my card are....

the paper flower created using

Spellbinder's Oopsy Daisy Die.

I cut the layers from

7Dots Studio ~ Homegrown collection

and a piece of vintage curtain,

....and Petaloo's Paintable Mini Pearl Daisies

which I had colored with diluted

Perfect Paints Polishing Plaster ~ Cayenne.

I stapled on a piece of 

UmWowStudio ~ Hexagon Background

that I had painted black.

When I was manhandling the piece of

CCB ~ Burlap ~ Black

 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

7Dots Studio Homegown Collection.

DO ALL THINGS WITH LOVE!!

WISHING EVERYONE A SAFE AND HAPPY

HOLIDAY WEEKEND.....

I know mine will be!