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A few of the MISTI peeps and I decided to get together today and share a little love for my friend Dawn from WPlus9. This lovely lady is officially on my zombie apocalypse team, in addition to being a lovely and talented artist.
So I have a social distancing card and quick video of the background for my little blue bird today.
I'd love it if you had a little crafty budget left this month if you spent it with Dawn - her small business is one I care about deeply!
I created the background using this technique and Hero Hues water reactive ink. Then I outlined the stencilled portion with a white paint pen. I cut the bird pieces out of watercolor paper and then painted them with Daniel Smith watercolor, and glued them all together. The way this die is engineered is really cool. I cut through the card front with this miss you die and then perched the birdie on top of the negative space letters. Who doesn't miss everybody right now? LOL.
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Can you be creative in a group? Or do you craft alone?
I can do work like coloring or repetitive stamping or background stenciling etc. in a group, but I can't design in a group.
So when I go to retreats, I really don't bring much to work on. I bring Games magazine and do crossword puzzles and talk to people. I used to bring so many supplies, but then I figured out I'm incapable of actually doing anything productive in that setting, so now my suitcase is much lighter on those trips.
At the retreat I go to twice a year, there are tons of people who work really well in this environment, and two of them have a hand in today's card - Gina K and Dawn from Wplus9.
Gina came a few years ago and I was lucky enough to sit next to her and watch her do the amazing things she does with colored pencils. I was telling her about a pencil blend I really like because it's not toxic, and she asked me if I wanted to test out her Artist's Choice cardstock, which is designed for colored pencil.
I LOVE the cardstock, btw. It's a bright white and has enough tooth to grab the pencil, but still smooth enough for crisp stamping.
But that's not the point.
The point is, I tucked these little guys into my luggage, and when I got home put them in my UFO bin (unfinished objects) and all these many years later, finally made a card with them. Life is unpredictable, and so am I.
But I love them so. Big enough to color, but not so big that they take hours to color - I'm super slow anyway.
Dawn has such a wide range in her stamps. Cute to elegant and everything in between. Plus she's a great human.
The sentiment is this one, and that lovely lavender background paper is from this soothing pastel plaid stack. Perfect complement to the warm oranges and bright green in my foxes.
What's in that one little guy's basket? Cookies maybe.
Or maybe I just want a cookie. Hard to say. Stay tuned below for an interview with Dawn, in case you missed it! She's a gem.
