It’s been a slave shop here getting ready for Christmas.  I had this crazy idea to paint the gift boxes (okay, amazon boxes, old book boxes, any fun box I’ve found).  Why bother with so much wrapping paper when I could paint them.  Out came my stencils, stamps, and paint.    I had boxes everywhere and I was so careful not to get paint on my shirt.  I wore my apron (which I often forget).  No paint, or so I thought.  I ended up with paint on the side of my pants near my ankle.  REALLY?  Arghhh.  I feel destined to have paint on every piece of clothing I own!!!

While checking out the creativity on blogs I found several people sharing their rainbow work.  I was so bummed that I missed the week of color over at Daisy Yellow.  Luckily, I learned she’s doing another week – so I jumped on it- especially since this is one of my favorite colors!  Check out all the other chartreuse art here.   I made a journal page  -no real time to do the journaling today but I am able to join with Just Journals!

A little gift wrap from Target, washi tape, and a tag I had painted a long time ago made the base.  It felt too plain still for my taste.

I am working on overcoming my hoarder mentality and I used my sacred glitter butterfly rub ons.  Having one color to focus on limited my choices since not many rub ons are green.  That limit actually made this a very easy decision – perhaps I need to explore limits more (I am sure my husband would agree).

Using Pitt pens I added some highlights to the tapes.  Used a fine tip Sharpie to outline the pattern on the gift wrap just to add those little touches that make it more me.