How is it the weekend already? Sometime the week goes by in a flash, and sometimes it drags, but the weekend always seems to go fast. I hope you're enjoying your weekend and doing something fun. A big part of life is filling your tank. I don't mean gas for your car, but kinda. I'm talking your emotional tank. Doing something fun, being with people you care about and who care about you, and maybe enjoying some outdoors. Breathing fresh air, there's just nothing like it.
Now I don't know about you, but I like to play. Paint, stamps, stencils, there's no end to the glory of art supplies. They're all so awesome! But sometimes I get stuck. I want to just put everything together, but I don't always have the patience. Sometimes I freeze up because it's not going the way I thought it should. And I have to remember there's no should. It's something I'm always practicing, because there's really no end to playing.
Case in point, this ATC. It did not go as planned, but I was inspired by a video I saw on YouTube, only in the video it was a tag. And while I didn't have everything in the video, I used what I had, including a stamp from a stamp set I had never used before this.
I have a bunch of ATCs and tags that have bits of paint and gesso and all kind of media on them. This ATC is one of them. I had put Liquitex Gesso through a TCW's Ledger stencil and it had some Liquitex Bright Aqua Green, neon yellow and neon orange paint. I added more paint in a couple other colors, then used a Sharpie to trace ABC down the side. After that I used Reeves Watercolor Crayons to add some color in the letters and used a waterbrush to spread the color around, going outside the outline on purpose. It's not all about coloring inside the lines. I have a few waterbrushes, all the same tip style. You can get all the same or assorted tips. Here's a set with different styles of tips, to allow for different effects. If you want to dip your toe in, here's a single, fine tip waterbrush to play with. I'm not sure if you can find Reeves crayons, but there are several other options, such as this set from Staedtler, a Faber-Castell set, and this set from Prang.
There's a couple different stamp sets at play here. I have a bunch of small ones in my stash, and I'll have to start using them, I guess, right? Most I used my Archival black ink, but the "NO LIMITS" was stamped in Distress Ink Peacock Feathers. I also used a dark purple marker to add dot doodles in a few spots, and a Uni Posca white paint marker to trace the triangles. The sentiments are from my stash. The feather I stamped on white cardstock with the same black ink pad as before. Then I used the Reeves watercolor crayons and waterbrush to spread the color, and added some bits of darker color with markers. I cut them out with Tonic scissors and used Alene's Tacky Glue to attach the feathers and thread that I bunched up for a little extra texture.
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