The Lord Bless you and Keep You

Changes are always hard for me to deal with. The youth pastor and his wife that I have been working with at my church with the youth program are moving on. I am excited for the opportunity that they are heading to but sad because I am going to miss them. I was asked to decorate the book of memories that they would be presented with. I decided to make a water colored replica of one of the stained glass windows in the sanctuary. 

As I worked on this water colored replica of the original art, I pondered about the stain glass artist. As this window was installed over 100 years ago, I don't know if anyone knows anything about the artist. I plan on asking the oldest members of the congregation to see if they might know anything about them.  What I have always loved about this window is the colors where the teal and brown blend into eachother. 

Stab Bound Gel Print album

Yesterday I made some nature inspired gel prints on my gel plate. I put together an album using Japanese Stab Binding. 

My challenge for the Splitcoaststampers MIX-Ability challenge is to do Japanese Stab Binding on an album or car. 

Happy Spring- Spring Fling Blog Hop and Linky Party

It is not too late to join us for the STAMPlorations SPRING FLING Blog Hop and Linky Party.

I made a quick fun little tag. I used

ARTplorations Doodled Tulips

STAMPlorations Spring Time Clear Stickers

CUTplorations: Tag O Coffee die

I used the tulips stencil with my gel plate to make a monotype on black cardstock. I took another scrap of a different monotype and added a sticker. Added a layer of burlap and 3 different fibers. 

Prizes:

- THREE (3) winners of $10 gift code drawn from comments left on the main blog and designers' blogs

- TWO (2) winners of her choice of STAMPlorations product with a value of up to $10 drawn from comments left on the main blog and designers' blogs

- TWO (2) winners of her choice of STAMPlorations product with a value of up to $15 drawn from entries in the linky party

- ONE (1) winner of $25 gift code drawn from entries in the linky party

Commenting and linking up end on Sunday, May 31, with winners announced on June 10 in the May winners post.

If you would like to add this stencil, stickers or dies to your crafty stash, you can use my discount code to get 20% off your order. 

  If you buy from the SPRING FLING section of the store you get and additional 15% off combined with my discount code making them 35%. 

2020 Spring-Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop - You are my sunshine

2020 Spring-Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop

I have been attempting to teach myself how to watercolor and how to hand letter.  I painted these beautiful sunflowers (one of my favorite flowers) with my coffee cup. I didn't use any fancy paints and I just used white cardstock but I like how this painting turned out. 

Garden Angels and Spring Summer coffee lovers blog hop 2020

2020 Spring Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop

 I had fun painting today. Today I painted little garden angels. I believe that  they must be little angels, because compared to a cup of coffee they are rather small, or they have found some really big coffee cups. Maybe I could use a proportionately large sized cup of coffee for myself.

Coffee Lover's Blog Hop Spring Summer All Blooms

Coffee Lover's Hop SPRING-SUMMER

STAMPlorations  Is a Super sponsor for the hop and has been for several of them. Shery is very generous and has amazing products. 

I used ARTplorations Stencil called ALL BLOOMS

I used white paint and my gel plate

 Here is how the white on white looked before I watercolored it.

I watercolored the flowers. With the watercolor paint going over the acrylic paint.  I used Japanese stab binding to make a little art journal.

 Next project I did the white on white again but this time I left it with just the white on white

I had a scrap piece of cardstock that I had printed with my gel plate. I used that piece with CUTplorations Zen Coffee Cup Layering Dies

I love how the rainbow look of the monotyped dic cut coffee cup and the white on white background. I did stab binding on this little journal. 

My third project used the same ALL BLOOMS stencil and my gel plate. 

How the gel plate looked when I pulled up the stencil after I had put the white acrylic paint on.

Unlike the first project I did where I added the water color after I printed it, This time I put the paint right to the gel plate. I  sprayed it with a mist of water before putting on my white cardstock.

Doesn't it make an amazing cool abstract floral print? Again I made this into a little art journal with the stab binding.

If you would like to add this stencil or this die to your crafty stash, you can use my discount code to get 20% off your order. 

  If you buy from the SPRING FLING section of the store you get and additional 15% off combined with my discount code making them 35%. 

Hello Spring- Spring Fling Blog Hop and Linky Party

You can still join us for the Spring Fling Blog Hop and Linky Party. 

I made this fun spring card. I used 

ARTplorations Doodled Tulips Stencil. 

and 

STAMPlorations Spring Time clear stickers.

I used the stencil and my gel plate to make a monoprint. I added the sticker, I doodled stiching lines and added a black mat. This was a super easy and quick card. It took longer for the paint to dry than it did to make the card once the print was made. 

Prizes:

- THREE (3) winners of $10 gift code drawn from comments left on the main blog and designers' blogs

- TWO (2) winners of her choice of STAMPlorations product with a value of up to $10 drawn from comments left on the main blog and designers' blogs

- TWO (2) winners of her choice of STAMPlorations product with a value of up to $15 drawn from entries in the linky party

- ONE (1) winner of $25 gift code drawn from entries in the linky party

Commenting and linking up end on Sunday, May 31, with winners announced on June 10 in the May winners post.

If you would like to add this stencil or these stickers to your crafty stash, you can use my discount code to get 20% off your order. 

  If you buy from the SPRING FLING section of the store you get and additional 15% off combined with my discount code making them 35%. 

Take captive every thought

 Outside my door this morning. This lilac bush is in bloom and has such a lovely fragrance. I thought it would be a challenge to water color it.

The other day I told my friend Susan that the reason I think I struggle with painting leaves, is I put them on the page after the flowers. They are an afterthought and I probably rush them too much so I decided to do them first on this painting. I painted them and even added some abstract green in the back for the leaves that are beyond my focal point. The flowers looked like they would be pretty easy. Just lines off of a central line, but it was harder than it looked to make them seem random.

I ended up putting 3 layers on the flowers with 3 different shades of purple. I added more shading to the leaves.

 I used a pencil to sketch in the portion of scripture.

I then went over the pencil marks with a fine point sharpie marker. I did reshape a couple of letters on the go as you can see some of the ghostly pencil marks outside of where I used the sharpie. 

I erased the pencil marks and thickened the down strokes. I used a straight edge and markers to frame it before putting it in my bible art journal.