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Do you remember the old Reese Cup commercial when two people bump into each other which causes the chocolate bar to fall into the jar of peanut butter?  That was almost what it was like at my house when I was picking up my daughter’s jeans and then I saw one of my new stencils.  What if I put them together?  This is what happens!

 

Here are the steps:

I used Julie Fei-Fan Balzer’s stencil put the first layer of paint on (this was just craft paint – I figure it will wash just fine since any time I spill paint on my clothes it never comes out).  Here it is with almost all the raindrops on it.

2. Outlined the shapes with a Sharpie.3. Used 3 colors of craft paint to paint swipes of color inside the shapes.
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I had to buy this 12×12 stencil by Julie Fei-Fan Balzer the moment I saw it! Didn’t know what I was going to do with it until I was purging my home of stuff.  I ran across a bunch of sequin things and it struck me – sequin hair!  After I had the face in place I needed to make the eyes and mouth pop a bit – so my almost dry bottle of modeling paste came off the shelf.  That didn’t give me the look I expected so I had to try something else.  A bit of bright pearl paint and gemstone eyes created the look I had in mind when I started.

 

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I have been purging stuff from my home to make room for my life.  It is freeing!  I found the box of audio cassettes (it’s an ancient form of recording for those young people) that had recordings of family members.  Relatives that are no longer with us.  Children who are way too old to be cute singing “I’m a Little Teapot”.  The sounds of a young family sharing a story.  These sounds take me back in time and bring such joy.

These recordings inspired my art journal page and my take on Michelle Ward’s crusade #55.  Here are some of my pages I made – of course I was so wrapped up in my art journal page I forgot to take a photo of the background I used before I used it.

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