Happy play with my Gelli Plate and Stencil Girl stencils today!  Jessica Sporn’s Jump for Joy stencil made me so happy as I experimented on envelopes from a huge stash I found buried in a cabinet recently.

You  know when there is a test drive there are going to others playing too!  Stop on by Jessica Sporn, Maria McGuire, and Michelle LaPoint Rydell !

You can watch the video directly on YouTube here.

Here are the 3 envelopes I made.  I love that each has a different look even though they were all printed with the same supplies.

Here she is only stenciled with Posca Markers.  I found out about these markers thanks to Maria McGuire and now I am in love.  They are so opaque. So juicy.  So much fun with a stencil!

Grabbed some words off the stencil to create my own phrase that matched how I was feeling.

I have some wonderful news coming on Monday too.  I am living my joy in so many ways right now!  What joy do you have in your world today?
If you need more joy stop on over to Summer of Color and  Paint Party Friday!

Supplies Used:

Gelli Plate                  Stencil            Posca Marker     Stabilo Pencil

Polymer Gloss    Amsterdam Paints    Stencil

Crazy, crazy, crazy week.  Some good crazy. Some necessary crazy. And some completely useless crazy. A normal week.  But I hadn’t had enough art and paint time so it felt so much crazier.  Thankfully, I made it to the studio to play! Of course, I should have been working on the new workshop or the article I need to get done or the proposal that needs to be finished, but that will all be waiting for me after I play!

Started with an old background in a journal.  Made this so long ago and just let it sit because I liked it so much.  Well, I was feeling just crazy enough today to use it knowing most of it would be covered up…the sacrifices I make!

Grabbed a bunch of stamps and randomly stamped.  Stamping on a bumpy gesso’d surface in a thick and bumpy journal made for some perfectly imperfect impressions!  All of the stamps are by Tangie Baxter except the umbrella woman (darned if I can’t remember who that is by- sorry).

I glued on a fun, colorful map from one of my trips somewhere.

Having a stack of Gelli prints is very handy.  I needed a bright color but just plain paper didn’t work with this page.  The Gelli print made with rubber stamps a while back gave me the jolt of bold color on a unique paper.  Perfect for my hand cut 911.

The vintage children’s dictionary gave me the urgent feeling to go with my art 911.  Let that white bus take me to my studio ASAP!

Out came the Stabilo pencil to write over damp paint and the urgent.

I finger painted white paint over the map. The map is still peeking out but it is now another layer in the page.

The plain black art just didn’t feel right so I added streaks of blue on top.  Ahh, that felt so much better.  That crazy feeling is fading into the background.  A little scribble journaling and I feel human again.  The kind of human that my family prefers- happy and calm.  What brings you to that place of calm?

Linking up to Creative Every Day, Mandarin Orange Monday, Simon Says Stamp (transportation- the ambulance), Artful Times (maps), Be Inspired and Be an Inspiration, Inspire Me Monday, Create Daily, Make It Monday, Glue It On Tuesday, Dictionary Challenge (U), Art Journal Every Day and One Little Word(crazy).