Happy Birthday

The SCS color challenge today is Indigo Island, Lost Lagoon and Pear Pizazz. I had this background piece already done from a few weeks ago when I was playing with my Brushos and stencils. This is a mono print - created using the ink left on the stencil after "stenciling" with the Brushos.  I used the sketch from Match This Sketch challenge blog:

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Imagine

It's been a week since I've been able to get time to make anything! I used a watercolor panel that I created last week when I was playing with Brushos:

I sprinkled Leaf Green and Turquoise powders onto water color paper and spritzed with water until I liked the coverage I got.  Before it was completely dried I used a Heidi Swapp stencil with butterflies and dabbed a wet baby wipe to remove some of the color.

I used the panel for the SCS Inspiration Challenge. I was inspired by the panel on the right of the three of the Blossom Painting.  I used the outline image from a Rubbernecker 2 step stamp set and then painted the flower in with purple Brusho mixed with water and a paint brush.  The white highlights were done with a white Sharpie paint pen.  The sentiment is from a different Rubbernecker set - I colored the sentiment with a black Memento marker and then stamped it onto the card base.

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So Very Grateful

Here is another piece using Brushos for the background and gold embossing for the leaf and sentiment. The sentiment is NBUS - from WPlus9 latest release. I love the font! After creating the panel I used SSS stitched rectangle die to cut it out and then mounted it on fun foam onto the card base.

Submitting this to Darnell's NBUS #5 challenge:

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Playing With New Schtuf! Brushos

I finally am brushing up on Brushos!  I saw on Sandy Allnock's blog a site of the artist who authored Brusho Secrets. I bought the eBook this morning and I have been playing today - the first day in weeks where I didn't have something I HAD to do.  So I used this new eBook and went through the first 6 lessons learning how to use the Brushos in different ways.  This is a freehand apple using 3 colors of Brushos and 3 different techniques.  It was so much fun.

I will sneak this in under the wire to Darnell's NBUS Challenge #5.

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Visual Art Journal Days 4 and 5 - Shabbat

Our fourth day was Friday, July 3 and the camp gets ready for Shabbat (Sabbath) which starts at sundown.  We don't have work or classes on Saturday because the Sabbath is a day of rest.  But after services on Saturday morning we had free time so I opened up the art room to those campers that wanted to relax and play.  Their journal prompt for Friday's journaling was to display through watercoloring and journaling how Shabbat makes them feel. Another prompt was what colors represent how they feel about Shabbat or how Shabbat makes them feel.  Below are my journal entries:

The first page was watercoloring with markers directly onto a Penny Black stamp, misted with water and then stamped.  The next page was watercoloring with a stencil - I applied distress inks right onto a stencil, misted it with water and then "stamped" with it onto the page.  The two pages with the Clearly Besotted tulip image was demonstrating watercoloring in the lines and then no line watercoloring.  Lastly I created a background using Color Bursts and Brushos and then stamped the Rubbernecker flowers with Versafine Onyx Black ink and used washi tapes to adhere the panel to the journal page.

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