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Hi Everyone, it's Danie here with you today..........for our Peace, Kindness and Love Month. Being kind to yourself is sort of my theme for my creative play today but it started with thoughts that today as this post goes live is Australia Day. For my creative process today I am following my passion, doing what makes me happy and making my mark.  My passion is being creative, getting messy and playing with my Gelli Plate which always makes me happy.  So I chose Australian Colors (Red, White and Blue and Green and Yellow) and created a whole heap of prints on my Gelli Plate.  For these prints I actually did make my own marks which I will share the 'How To' with you all another time.  I then took some of these and added further to the prints with some stamping and stencilling.  I used the circle background stamp to coordinate with the circles already on this print. The prints are perfect to use for a wide assortment of projects....

Hi Everyone it's Danie here again and I am following on a little from my last post which was titled Spring Butterflies .  Mainly because I had the supplies still on my desk; some butterflies cut out, spring colored paints still out, and my Eco Art Board ATCs were within reach. I decided I would use the ATC Art Boards as covers to an accordion style book and teamed all the supplies I had out with a mix of quote stamps with the theme of Dreams. A quote that actually came to mind which inspired me to use the butterflies with the Dream Theme was ‘Until you stretch your wings……..you’ll never know how far you can fly’ I started by taking a piece of A3 Watercolor Paper and cutting two strips from this the height of an ATC - 3.5 inches and then taking one of the ATC Art Boards I folded these around it, back and forth to form an accordion fold each fold being the width of an ATC - 2.5 inches.  There was a smaller piece left on each end.  I cut one of these off one pi...