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Week 30 of 52 Questions…

Monday, July 26th, 2010

Week 30 of 52 Questions asks: Who do you need to thank?

With this card, I glued down a leftover piece of painted paper towel (same as THIS piece) with gel medium. I added the 30, from a bingo card.

Then, I wanted something simple as I liked the background….so digging into the bottom of my pizza box I came up with the little piece of corrugated paper, the embossed punched flower and the THANKS which was probably cut many years ago. The strip of paper was the perfect size, I snipped the end and wrote the question on it.

WHO do you need to THANK this week? Is there someone who inspires you or is always there to encourage you? Send them a handwritten note…..we NEED to do of that in our lives!!!

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Week 29 of 52 Questions….

Saturday, July 17th, 2010

Question for Week 29 of 52 Questions: Do you have a recurring dream?

I am working more & more with many layers of Kroma Acrylics….LOVING it all! I don’t have alot of the colours but will be ordering more as soon as I can save for more. They are FABULOUS to work with!

For this card, I first sanded the surfaceof the card, then started with the Quinacridone Red, spread it with the old hotel card. Its a thin layer so it dried quickly, then I added the Yellow Oxide layer. Once that was dry, I added a light coat of gesso, then with a wet paper towel I rubbed off some of the colour….you can see where I rubbed more than other areas.

I used a pencil to lightly draw the tree (YES, trees are my recurring dream!), then used a Zig Writer marker to colour the tree. I cut all the words except for the “recurring” from the same old book I have been using for other cards. For the “recurring” I happened to have an old receipt on my table, so I tore off a strip, wrote the word with my Zig Millennium marker, then cut the length. I had tried to silhouette the numbers at the top, but it didn’t work out, so I cut the numbers from a catalogue selling stamps.

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Week 28 of 52 Questions…

Sunday, July 11th, 2010

I am still trying to get into a creating mode after the funeral this week (a friend’s husband)…..too many things going on in my head!

I did get this week’s card done for 52 Questions. The question is: What are your favourite days of summer/winter filled with?

Summer to me means sunflowers…..although we didn’t plant any this year, I still associate them with summer. I could smell the hay in the air last night – so haying season is in full swing.

I painted the sunflower with Kroma Arcylics, then spend most of the time making this card, trying to find the words….LOL!

The one page from an old discarded book is looking like swiss cheese. I wish I had a Canadian spelling for the word “FAVOURITE” but this is the only one that popped up.

How is your summer going? We, in SW Saskatchewan, are sure NOT used to humidity along with our heat…..

Hoping for the upcoming week to be more creative….

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Week 27 of 52 Questions…

Sunday, July 4th, 2010

Week 27 question of 52 Questions is : What have you found lately?

I just LOVE this background and will be doing more of this in my art journal….!!!

I put a blob of Kroma Yellow Oxide artists acrylics down on the card, used an old hotel key lock card to spread the Yellow across the card. Let dry, then did the same with Kroma Phthalo blue. When dry, I used a paper towel to rub some Gesso across the card lightly and wet the paper towel a little to rub off some of the blue in places. LOVE IT!

Because I LOVED it, I didn’t want to add anything else….so just the question, which is cut from a magazine & a book. Had to hand write “Lately”. The number is again from the paper tape measure and the arrow is from an old scrapping kit.

I cleaned the key lock card onto a piece of 8.5 X 14 paper, so have that for something else.

And, just a side note – Kroma Acrylics is Canadian and have excellent customer service!!!

HAPPY 4th of July of all my Amercian friends!!!

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Week 26 of 52 Questions…

Sunday, June 27th, 2010

The year is half over!!!

Question for Week 26 of 52 Questions is: On my walls I would write….

I have been experimenting with different painted backgrounds, so this paper started with the sponge roller below being cut at, and painted first with a light blue and then the purple.

I use the plastic bags that cereal comes inside the boxes as my table cover…..I blob the paint right on there and roll the sponge roller back & forth to an even consistency. Then, roll all over sheets of paper (I used printer paper), you can adjust your rolling by putting pressure or lightly, etc. You can see one sheet of paper below. I did 6 sheets of 8.5 X 14 paper with that same blob of paint, so it goes a long way.

For this week’s card, I used a paper tape measure “26″ and the limited edition tab is from an old Stampin’ Up scrapping kit. The large green scalloped circle was in the pizza tote, and the flowers are actually a reverse of an alphabet card set I found at a thrift store years ago….I punched out the 2.5 inch circle – it just fit that width.

So try chopping up a cheap sponge roller and paint some backgrounds!!!