Thriving Art

What can I say?  These two pages contain left overs from other projects and a try art some ink resist with glue.  I do like the bright flowers and the stamped quote on the banner, the rest????? well it is in the journal, so just turn the page and come back next Monday.....LOL This is a scheduled post as I am at the beach for the 4th of July week.........eat your heart out..LOL Inky Hugs Krisha

This will be last live post for the next 10 days, I will have a few scheduled for your entertainment, but the chances of me getting back to anybody who comments probably won't happen until we get back form vacation.  I will check in with my cell phone, but returning comments s just to technical for me LOL!   This week Krishtin has the colors gray, lavender and plum for the Summer of Color ( or SOC) challenge.  Personally, I think these colors are gorgeous together.  I actually came into the craft room to gather a few items I want to take with me on this trip, and there set this challenge, right in the middle of Betsy!  Well, I HAVE been busy loading the Playhouse, and I REALLY did need a break... So I reached for some acrylic paints and began.  I did end up using markers for the sentiment I found in a book of phrases.  ALL VERY loosely painted, but it was a lot of fun to create. Thanks for coming by Inky Hugs Krisha

So what's in the glass this week?  A great mix of Watermelon Mint Chiller and Berry Mint classic, made strong and iced down.  Makes a beautiful red tea and I am showing it off in my Mom's OLD glass pitcher.  I am not an avid tea drinker ( as you all know by now ) but I do like iced tea in the summer, but flavored teas I like sweetened.  I didn't want to add sugar, or sugar substitutes, but I wanted a little sweetness and some kind of fizz, like a wine cooler.  So me, being me, I poured in some of my diet flavored carbonated water and waaa laa!  Just what my taste buds were craving.  I know this sounds too obnoxiously outrageous to most, but it REALLY is good, and I have been drinking it everyday.  It is great for the late afternoon pick-me-ups. Since I used all that was left in both tins it made quite a bit of tea, more than pictured, so I put it in a container and stuck it in the freezer.  It is going to come in handy next week when we...

Some of you (long time followers) might remember last fall when I was taking an on-line class on how to draw and paint in a loose manner.  This is one of the pictures I drew and then colored with water colors, and I decided to (finally) mount it on a card.  I did put a layer of green cs between the picture and the base.  The sentiment is a stamp.  There are still a couple more of these "little" painting hanging around, don't know if they will make it onto a card or not. I'm truly NOT hording them, I'm unsure if the others are really good enough to put on a card..........or anything else.....LOL I am entering this in Less is More  challenge of watercolor: to use watercolors somehow/where on your card. Thanks for popping in for a look. Inky Hugs Krisha

Today I am linking up with the Inkspirational challenge  which is blue with white or cream. I used blue ink to emboss the image from Stubby Stampers, then blue markers to color it in.  I used the same ink and embossing powder for the background and the sentiment, with everything layered onto a solid blue cs. I've been doing a LOT of art journaling and this weekend I just felt like some card challenges.  This is one of four cards.  So buckle-up there are more post coming your way. Thanks for stopping by Inky Hugs Krisha

Happy Monday, and welcome back to the Monday art journal posts that I have been doing. This is one of my favorite double page LO!  Modeling past, and colorful inks running all over the place, a couple die cuts and a stamped quote (and of course  some doodles.....grin) Hope the cheerful colors brought a smile to your Monday! Inky Hugs Krisha

Only a few more days left in this month, but still time enough to join the Unruly Paper Arts Reader Art Quests. And here is my entry for both RAQ prompts.   (sorry about the crooked scan, that horizon makes me dizzy LOL) This is one of those pages, the page is ok, but not what I had pictured in my mind. I tore, and tore, and tore some more, little strips of paper, solids and prints.  Then glued them down, to semi form the setting sun and the waves washing up on the beach.  I did do an acrylic wash over the colors and painted in the clouds and a few white caps on the water.   It is pretty primitive, at best, but it really was therapeutic to just tear and glue while listening to some soft jazz.    Inky Hugs Krisha