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Happy Day from Jean to YOU! The month of May is a GREAT month.  It ushers in some of the most beautiful days of blooms and nice weather. This is why we wanted to "JUST RUN WITH IT" for our art.   Create with abandon while the flowers bloom and the skies inspire us. Stop by the store to see all the beautiful flowers, collages and papers for Spring.    Just Run With it!

Today, I have a quick little post about all the options for you at  Alteredpages.com   if you love playing with watercolors like I do.  Whether you prefer  watercolor pencils ,  Gelatos  or a bit of shimmer like these  Niji paint sets , AlteredPages has you covered.  You can even paint right on  vintage music sheet  like I have done with this butterfly.      Or, use a more traditional approach with this  Prima watercolor pad  like I did with my little cactus friend below.  This piece is not quite finished.  I need to decide what this guy is sitting on...maybe a potting bench or maybe in a garden.  We will see, but for now he is just kind of floating around.   I love to make little pieces like these and send them off to family and friends.  They make great little memories for sharing.   So, give our watercolor supplies a try for yourself and make some...

I wanted to go pretty this month.   And since we could just "run with it".... ATC's are one of my favorite things to make as I love to collage. First I found some images I liked. One was a lady image from my old stash and the other was a gorgeous rose tag which I loved the colour of. The rose tag is from the collage sheet  Floral tags  which has lots and lots of gorgeous printable tags. I adore them all. I decided to use some scraps of paper I had too. I painted the ATC base in a rust color and then painted an oval scrap I had in the same color. I scrunched up another scrap of white paper I had left over and then distressed with brown ink then scrunched again and repeated. The effect is lovely and I cut to fit the ATC and adhered it with glue.  I already had the images printed so I cut the lady into an oval shape, applying the rose tag onto the scrunched background. To finish it off I used some watercolour paint to enhance the lady image and ...

Spring seems to have finally arrived for most everyone.  YIPPEE! I have dimensional ATC's for your viewing today. I do like using up older papers for sweet little ATC's. I die cut the flowers on a Cricut, I cut the leaves from one of our papers, used another paper as my background.   I then used a pentel pen to doodle around the flowers and leaves.  I also like to corner round most things, it echoes the rounded flowers. A bit more of the same but with a different background paper.  Less doodling due to the busy background.   Just paper, scissors and glue and VOILA! I also want to share some of our blooms around the house.    These grace our front and backyards and make me so very happy due to the bright colors.  The birds, bees, and butterflies like them too.        The RED Hibiscus is a full 9 inches across! Here's to Happy days of Spring and summer. T...

This old-fashioned sewing stamp set reminds me of the pajamas my grandmother used to make us when I was little.  Unfortunately, the "sewing gene" didn't make it to me!  I think she would have liked my trio of Artist Trading Cards (ATCs) that I'm sharing today. I chose to work with the Prima 6x6 paper stack called Life Time because the distressed patterns played well with the aged look of the Stitches stamp set . Rather than coloring most of the images after they were stamped, I just stamped them in different parts of the papers to get the different colors.  All of the images were stamped with Jet Black StazOn ink . Bits and Pieces

Continuing to play with Bright Colors and my love for randomness and inky mess, I grabbed out my Circle Gel Press Plate and the three primary colors of Paint - Red, Blue and Yellow. I applied the paint in sections onto my plate and proceeded to randomly and not fully lay my pre-cut ATC Cards onto the plate, I then picked them up and picked up more paint in different areas, until most of the paint was removed from the plate. I then took some gold paint and a bottle cap and pressing the cap into the paint then applied some circles of gold to the plate which I then once more randomly pressed my ATC Cards into. Next I took the 6 x 6 Heart and Arrow Stencil by the Crafter's Workshop and with black paint and a stencil brush added the stencil design randomly across my ATC's. I had some let over butterflies and bird collage images from previous projects so I decided to use these and then played around with placement. A bit fun and funky! And I sti...

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