Bright and Cheery

 

 

 Hello Monday, my friends! And welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. Thank you for joining us for the  Fur or Feathers  Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too.

Please join me in welcoming back the very talented, Ann Chuang, who is joining us for the month of March. Welcome back Ann! I am looking forward to your wonderful creativity. 

It's the first challenge of the month, so we are highlighting the awesome array of products and designs from Paper Artsy! We look forward to seeing your creations this week, and if you have Paper Artsy products. we would love to see how you use them!

This week the challenge is: BRIGHT AND CHEERFUL

...a little bit wonderfully WEIRD... 

Well, I do think that describes me quite well!

This turned out to be a make that had a mind of its own. I had an idea in my head and started with bright colors of paint that I smoothed out with a baby wipe after. 

I was going for a rainbow look, so next I rubbed in my cool colors and blended with the baby wipe again. Once dry, I covered the page with clear gesso. Now, my idea was to cover this with black paint, then scrub back some areas to let the colors come through. So, I painted over most of it with the black, but I had unintentionally dried it, so the scrubbing idea was an epic fail.  Or maybe glossy clear gesso or gel medium would have been a better choice. Always learning!

So, mu next idea was to cover part of the black with white, and work on the rainbow of colors again. As I ran the bottle around applying the paint, I noticed that I really liked how it made a frame. I decided to leave the frame and just fill in the center. Then, I played with adding dots of paint around the edge of the frame and really liked that look. 

Once the background was dry, I rubbed in a rainbow of paint colors just using my fingers. 

Now, it's time to stamp some images onto my rainbow. I thought the weird stamp was darn cute, and I often feel a bit wonderfully weird myself. Tracy Scott has some fun mark making stamps, and I added a few of those to my page. 

I added a bit of detail with gold pen, and sprinkled on some Paper Artsy Green Man and Magenta Infusions. Spritz them with a bit of water, and pick up any extra with a paper towel. 

Details... 

I thought I was finished, but decided to smudge a bit of white around the figure to make her stand out a bit more.

I do love working with bright and cheerful colors, and had a lot of fun creating this page in my art journal. The make certainly had a mind of its own, but I really like where it took me. 

BRIGHT AND CHEERFUL...and a little bit WONDERFULLY WEIRD

As always Simon Says Stamp will be giving away a $25 voucher to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store 

Supplies:

Paper Artsy Joy JM70 stamp

Paper Artsy Tracy Scott TS085 stamp set

Paper Artsy Infusions - Green Man and Magenta

Dylusions 8x8 Creative Journal

Simon Says Stamp Intense Black Ink

Dina Wakley Acrylic Paints - White, Black, Lemon, Magenta, Tangerine, Lime, Ocean, Orchid

Signo Gold Pen

Ranger Mister Bottle

Ranger Heat It Tool 

Prima Marketing Clear Gesso

Dina Wakley Paint Brush

So now it's YOUR turn, Happy Crafting! Maura

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