Still loving my raindrop stencil from Julie Fei-Fan Balzer – this time I used it on denim then stitched the raindrops with a bit of batting inside them.  I guess rain does bring flowers.  I am so happy I have this for Friday, since that means Paint Party Friday!

This was a canvas I wasn’t in love with so I glued a bunch of left overs from my die cutting with both the Silhouette and my Sizzix.

I slathered paint on and then paused – okay I was stuck.  Grabbed some dimensional paint and wrote large words across it.

After the paint had been on a while I decided it wasn’t what I was looking for so I wiped it off.  Then happiness struck – there was this great ghost of the word. Oh, happiness!  This was also late a night so the lighting wasn’t the best.

Here’s the background in the morning light.  I liked this so much I debated leaving it just as it was, but those raindrops just called to me.

I’m into Christmas – especially trees.  Now that all my trees are up at home I decided to make a canvas of trees.  This one is 18×24 and it came together faster than I ever imagined.  I’ve been making lots of papers – just experimenting so there was a nice stash of choices for making my trees.  Something unexpected happened while I was going through the papers – I used some of my absolute favorites that I had been saving for the “perfect” project.  You might have guessed that I am an art supply hoarder – we all know the perfect project rarely comes along.  Yeah- I might be letting go of perfect!!!!!