I’m going to type this blog post and get it all finished and completed within 15 minutes. Yeah … and pigs might fly!
I got out my paints this afternoon (Sunday) with the intention of painting an Angel … but then a stray little ticklish memory came to mind and I found myself pencilling a flying pig, and so I went with it.
P ‘And Pigs Might Fly’ ~ an ATC sized painting for ~ #WorldWatercolorMonth
It was quite a quick painting project, the longest time was waiting for colours to dry so I could move onto another colour … but my heat gun helped with that just a tad.
Again, painted to the ATC size of 2.5inches by 3.5inches. You can see the exact size in the photo above – the pencil marks around the sides – but I always leave an ‘over-hang’ so that I can touch/hold the painting and move it around without getting mucky finger prints on it and spoiling it.
‘And Pigs Might Fly’ ~ an ATC sized painting for ~ #WorldWatercolorMonth
I tried a white mount around it and quite liked that. But then tried the blue mount and …
‘And Pigs Might Fly’ ~ an ATC sized painting for ~ #WorldWatercolorMonth
… I quite liked that too. One moment I love it with the white mount … and the next … well … what can I say. I like them both.
What about you? Which one do you prefer?
This really was an enjoyable make. Watercolour paper. Watercolour paints. Some brushes and some water … and VOILA! One teeny pig with really tiny teeny wings. Somehow I don’t think those wings would carry the pig … but hey… who am I to judge? I have no training in these things! 😇
Happy Monday!
I know, I know,you’re not overly impressed with Mondays. Lots of people aren’t. So let’s break the system. Let’s paste a smile on our faces and wear it at every opportunity today. Why? Because it makes everyone wonder what the HECK you’ve been up to. You’ll look like you’ve been up to something or know something. Keep ’em guessing. When they ask you just say “Aw, nothing, really” … but say it in *that* way which makes them think that … you might not be telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. And that alone will keep ’em smiling. lol
Have a truly blessed day my friends, and wherever you go today, may your God go with you.
A ‘Shabby Chic’ look to a warm, uplifting, loved filled card with a nod to spirituality.
Shabby Chic – anywhere – can sometimes go too far or in the wrong direction and end up looking a miserable mess of things which don’t have any relation to each other – but this card, I feel, found the right place and it almost made itself.
I started purely with that bit of rambling rose backing paper which I had left over from a scrapbooking project. I decided that I’d make a card with what was left over. This pretty, uplifting, warm hug feeling card was the result. I love this card and actually wish that someone else had made it and sent it to me.
For those who wish to read the details of how to make something like this, here’s the ‘recipe’:-
Ingredients(I used):-
Craft Card, cut to the right size, scored and corners rounded off.
Red/brown ink pad – but any colour you want would be fine
A length of rayon seam binding – but any ribbon you choose to tone with your own card
Creamy white paper rose and paper rose leaves
One large(ish) pearl for the centre of the rose (and some glitter, to drawn attention to the pearl.)
A die cut frame (behind the rose, but you don’t necessarily need if you don’t have one)
Two flat back pearls for either side of the die cut frame
Method
In a large mixing bowl ... oops, wrong type of recipe. Let’s start again . . . .
1. The first thing I did was to distress the edges of the paper by scraping down the edges with a scalpel to rough them up and make that lovely ‘furry’ edge which I love.
2. I then used a rosy pink ink pad and a cheap make up sponge to further distress the paper but this time by blending in some ink around the outside edges, as I wanted to ‘antique’ them a little, but not using the usual browny shades. I wanted to really warm the card up and make it blush.
3.Choose your cardstock: Although I have tons of white cardstock, I felt that I wanted a more vintage feel so used Craft Card to make the card itself; Cut it to size; scored it; rounded the corners and then gathered together some Rayon seam binding, a bit of left over lace, a rose and some leaves.
4.I attached a bit of the lace to the bottom of the card.
5.Rayon Seam Binding. It was the right colour but I felt it lacked something – so decided upon using the word stamp saying ‘Strength’ from the same Divine Inspiration. Using a reddy brown ink pad, I stamped the word onto the rayon seam binding, and then fixed the ribbon to the backing paper.
6.I then stitched the background paper (with the attached lace and ribbon) to the card, using my cheap little £12.99 sewing machine which I think is meant as a childs introduction to sewing machines – which I bought a few years ago specifically for sewing paper and card stock (didn’t want to use my big sewing machine as I a) didn’t want to have to drag it out every five minutes to sew a card, and b) didn’t want to mess up the mechanism of my big machine with paper and card ‘fluff’). It’s the same as –> this one <– from Hobbycraft – but I bought mine from Aldi (one of their Thursday special offers) about three or four years ago so was cheaper. Works brilliantly for sewing on cards.
7. I stamped the Sheena Douglass words stamp saying “Your Wings Exist, FLY” onto a square of creamy white card and then ‘aged’ the card by using the same reddy brown ink pad that I’d used on the roses backing paper. using the sewing machine again, I fixed the sentiment to the card front.
8.Distressed and then, using foam dimensional tape, I mounted the die cut frame to the centre of the card, and added the flat back pearls to each side.
9.Using the hot glue gun, I fixed the rose into the centre of the frame, and once dry, I added the rose leaves, which I tucked under the lowest petals of the rose.
10.The PVA came into use next, and I used it to add a large brown pearl to the centre of the rose, then sprinkled a tiny pinch of brown glitter into the glue where it had risen up the sides of the pearl – so that it helped to drawn attention to the pearl.
11. Finally, I used a glue pen and added a few curves of glue here and there and added a tiny pinch of glitter to the glue, just to make the card catch the light and sparkle. Added an insert, cord tassel and ‘signed’ the back.
It was a really easy, quick card to make. Tapping out the steps to making it to share with anyone else who wants to make one the same as or similar to it, makes it look complicated. But take another look at the photo, and you’ll see that it really wasn’t difficult at all.
I really like this card.
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