Sunday, February 14, 2010

Enjoying challenges

Michelle Ward of Green Pepper Press Street Team hosts monthly challenges and provides wonderful information on the topic. This month's topic is LOVE Letter as in oooxxx, why of course!

The task is to create a journal page but since I am a card maker I make a full background sheet following the challenge details and then make it into cards. The backgrounds were created with Ranger dabber acrylic paints over a textured gesso base.

I am also playing in my friend Anne's February challenge is posted on her blog, Gaal Creative. I loved playing with wet acrylics with a spring & butterfly theme. Oh so fun to play with wet paint and stamps...and finally adding some embellishment with stickles and dimensional paint. I will have just enough time before Anne's deadline to get these in the mailbox with few surprise notes to family and friends. Thanks Anne and Michelle for great theme ideas!







14 comments:

  1. Brilliant! Jan, I just love these. Absolutely beautiful!

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  2. Hi, Jan! These are terrific! I love that you used acrylic paints to make your background and on your stamps! Love the golden Stickles, too! Thanks so much for playing my challenge! :-)

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  3. Aren't you a clever girl! Thank you for telling the crusaders that you don't journal but instead chose to make a full page as backgrounds for your cardmaking. Very inventive way to play along. Thanks for sharing Jan.

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  4. Oh Jan these are gorgeous! I love the colors and the paint! love it xox

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  5. Hello Alaska. I love butterflies as they are the bearers of 10,000 happinesses. Come on Spring! Thank you for visiting my blog. I am now following yours. Keep creating...

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  6. What fantastic butterflies - they make me happy just looking at them.

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  7. Love your colors and the gesso background is great. I am curious how you make cards from them.

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  8. Oh, your butterflies are so pretty. I like it a lot.

    Stopped by from Michelle's Street Team

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  9. Hi Jan,
    Wow! I love the butterfly-just in time for Spring too.

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  10. Beautiful way to amend the challenge to your art. These are all gorgeous cards.

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  11. Purple - my favorite. Lovely pages

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  12. These are so cute and creative. Would love to get one of these in the mail:-)

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  13. Lovely colors and texture, your pages sure do make gorgeous cards. I never thought to use my daubbers over gesso, what a great idea!xoSusan

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