Happy Tuesday! Today’s card was inspired by today’s daily SNS challenge word: ART. I’ve had this fun Craftiness is Happiness stamp set by Taylored Expressions and hadn’t played with it yet I love all the artsy images in it, but the sayings are a bit too craft focused for my taste. When I found this sentiment by Picket Fence, I knew they would be perfect together!
I played around with images from the set, combining a paint tube, brush and pen with some squiggles & splats for a colorful design on a white die cut circle. I then dig through pieces from the Dina Wakley class again and after trying some of my faves, I chose an ugly one to work with. Lol. Since I’ve gotten some new gloss sprays since class, I added a bit to my ugly background. I sprayed, splattered and poured little bits of gloss spray until I had tons of colorful bits that would peek through on this card. It’s pretty much a hot mess, but sometimes art is messy!
Since there is so much going on in both my background and my focal image, I kept the card design very simple. My layout was inspired by a sketch I had saved a while back, though I rearranged the flag event to work with my design and give better balance to the colors I was using. It’s taken me a few days, but this card is growing on me and I like it more now than I did at first! Maybe my brain cells are growing? Lol
inky, painty hugs,
Tara
