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Christmas preparations are consuming so much of my time that I had to work hard to find time for art today.  But I found it!!!

I’ve been playing with my spatula for spread colors.  It has more control than a credit card and makes less mess than a brayer.  To do this one I squirted the paint onto the spatula and then smeared it around the piece of textured wallpaper.   Since I used cheap craft paint I had to let it dry every now and then so the colors didn’t mix into mud.

 

 

 

 

I cut a triangle out to make my tree.  Then I used all sorts of colors of various glitter glues & put some sparkly ribbon around the edges.  The glittters don’t show up well but they add a nice sparkle. The rest

 

 

 

I relearned one of my life lessons – don’t stop too soon.  I put a touch of glitter on and it just looked ho hum.  I decided to  add more glitter glues that I smeared with my fingers.  It started to look good – glad I didn’t stop when I felt the resistance.  Have you ever felt that way?

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My family thinks I’m off my rocker since I really want to spend a night at an ice hotel.  It might be chilly, but what an amazing sight these places must be!  For now, it’ll just be a wish in my journal…There was to be one in the USA but I read it was closed due to the fire code.  Hmm, makes me wonder….You can read about it here.

The blue people are printed on tissue paper from a digital image by Holliewood Studios.

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Do you ever look at something and know you must cover it in paint?  A cardboard box spoke to me.  Once I had the painted the cardboard the tree die cut started whispering that it was just what I needed. Once I had the tree things just started jumping out at me. Oh, my, this makes me sound a bit unstable…Good thing you understand about things talking to me…

I had such fun painting the cardboard, I thought I’d share the process with you.  I cut a box apart so I had big flat pieces.  I had just been to the dollar store and bought this pack of spatulas – for just a $1.  I knew they would be be stiff and that is what I wanted!

 

 

 

 

 

I squirted 3 colors of paint onto the cardboard.

 

 

 

 

I used a spatula to spread the paint around.  The spatula was firm but not quite as firm as a credit card so it allowed me to spread the paint but it didn’t blend all the paint the way a brush would have.  The spatula is my new painting friend.

 

It was still dark so I added a few drops of white while the green paint was still wet.  Once the paint was dry I ran it through my die cutting machine to create the trees.  I experiment with different colors and types of paints.  A bit of metallic paint adds a fantastic shimmer.

 

This tree was dressed up with some green glitter and vintage gems I bought at Tinsel Trading Company.  This let me get a vintage feel to my painty tree to go with the photo.

 

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