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Monday, February 28, 2022

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I'm not joking - I just heard a guy on a YouTube video very carefully explaining that "pasteurized" eggs and "pasture raised" eggs were not the same thing, and for just a minute, I questioned everything about my reality. 

I decided not to dwell on that though, and share a little art instead.

I hope you enjoy it, because for most of it, I was cracking myself up. And not in a pasteurized vs. pasture raised way, either.

First up, one of my long-favorite art subjects, the humble pear from this very arty and modern stamp set.

I'm not very good at painting, but I enjoy it immensely, and so I take a lot of painting classes. In many of these, I have painted pears. The reason for this is the pear is a simple shape that is easy to replicate for beginning painters, but also can have a lot of nuanced light, shadow and color for more advanced painters. Perfect for a class setting.

So I thought I'd get a little arty with this beautiful image

I stamped it on a piece of masking paper and cut out the center of the pear. Then I put acrylic paint dots all over the opening and scraped it with a credit card - so easy! I re-masked the pear and the stem and stamped the super graphic background from the set over it - when stamping a solid image like this over a mask, a tool like this really helps you not get a halo.




Now here's where I went super rogue. I LOVE the Forest Friends set where you could have animal heads poking out of a tree - adorable! But when I got the addition set, where it had the bodies  - OH YOU KNOW WHAT I DID. Did I cackle the whole time? PERHAPS. The sentiment is from this set. The stencils are the spots, the sunburst and the leaves. I love the opportunity to create surreal art. 


Forest Friends Additions
[ GNK ]
STAMPS- Forest Friends - Gina K Designs
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STAMPS- Scripty Encouragement MINI -...
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STENCIL- Sun Spots - Gina K Designs
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STENCIL- Sunshine - Gina K Designs
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STENCIL- Leafy - Gina K Designs
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Sweet Sentiment Es-Press-o — Sweet...
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Understand Blue Card Making Bundle #3...
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Understand Blue Card Making Bundle #1...
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MISTI Stamping Tool
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Rotatrim Professional Series Cutter -...
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Teflon Bone Folder - Ellen Hutson LLC
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Crafter's Companion GEMINI...
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Scor-Pal MINI SCOR-BUDDY Scoring...
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Storage Envelopes, Medium 25pk,...
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CheckOutStore Stamp & Die Clear...
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Extra Large -50 pk, Avery Elle Stamp...
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Lawn Fawn STAMP SHAMMY Cleaner LF1045
[ SSS | CST ]
Airtable: Organize your stamps & dies
[ ART ]
The Ink Stand White MINI is354 at...
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The Ink Stand White RECTANGLE...
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One Day at a Time
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Hope your week is shaping up well.

Loveyameanitbye.

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3 comments:

  1. Holy Smokes Lydia! I just love all of these cards. LOVING the mod look of the pear. You rock! Thanks so so much!

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  2. Okay, those are pretty funny (and I'd have done that, too...now can you make them into zombies, please?

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  3. Absolutely love what you did! Can't wait to get the stamps.

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