This post should have gone out yesterday, but it didn’t because I failed…no, I’m kidding, I was working.  I have two new canvases going at the moment and frankly I got lost in the paint.  I’ll show pics later of their progress cause I am excited.

I also spent like four hours working on my Prismacolor colored pencil 9×12 spirit animal piece.  Anyone who works with colored pencils know that kind of work takes FOREVER.  Here is a sneak peak of the tiger I spent so much time on.  I think he is finally taking shape, even though his tongue sucks right now.

But I do have some super cute cards to show you that I have been working on while the paint sets and the pencils are put away.

The first card I have this morning is from Colour Q who have a great color palette this week with kraft, pool party, melon mamba, blushing bride and of course white.  The colors felt so fresh and girly, I knew I had to do something sweet.

I pulled out a My Favorite Things Sassitude stamp pack and and stamped out the sassy girl image in Memento tuxedo black.  I haven’t really touched

my Spectrum Noir alcohol markers in a while so I dug in and pulled colors that felt close to the challenge colors.  Now I love this little stamp set, because this is exactly how my five year looks when she is at home, so I sort of tried to color her in a way that reminded me of my kid, minus the blonde hair, coloring it a ‘kraft’ color instead.  I think she is sweet, and I know I missed the mark on the blushing bride, but what are you going to do.  I added some glitter pink paper behind the image, and I pulled out a piece of kraft paper, but it it looked dull with just the image on it.  So feeling daring, I pulled out an old pigment ink pad in light blue (it was a free pad with generic stamps pack from like five years ago, but it still works and I like the color).  I pulled out the Inkadinkado Sketchy Flourishes stamp pack and repeatedly stamped the image in different directions.  I like the subtle color.  Finally I took the sentiment from the Sassitude stamp pack and stamped out the image in Archivial cobalt blue.

Next we have another great color palate from Color Throwdown. I love color challenges because it allows me to do what ever I want image wise.  And these colors are so not my normal reach for colors, I was excited.  They were looking for aqua, orange and light grey.

I pulled out my Art Impression His and Hers Flying High stamp pack.  I will have to admit, Art Impression are my favorite hands down stamps, because they are so detailed, and really inspire you to just sit and color when working with them.  I don’t need an adult coloring book, just more Art Impressions.  Now, the question to ask, is why did I work on

such a detailed card with just three colors, I will never know.  Sticking to the challenge colors on this stamp set was a bit of challenge but I think it came out well.  I used my Derwent watercolor pencils and my water brush, and think I was pretty successful.  The dog however is my favorite part of the card.  I did pull out my Distress salty ocean stamp pad and watercolored in the background.  I like how uneven the sky was, but still uniform.  This may be one of my favorite cards I have made in a while.

Now I get to go back to my workstation to pour more ink into my canvases.  I love being excited about new work and right now I am really excited.