It has been awhile again since I participated in a Crusade lead by the incredible Michelle Ward. I read the prompts every month and plan to do them but sometime life gets in the way.
Today, I was supposed to be packing for my Cape Cod trip but I decided that I couldn’t have all my favorite supplies packed up on this grey and quiet Sunday. I needed to play !
The Green Pepper Press Street Team Crusade #44 – In A Scrape was a great place to start.
Michelle shared techniques using an old credit card or a paint scraper to cover your pages with paint. No paint brushes required ! I did get my fingers in there in a few places…
Michelle also suggested using stencils and masks and dragging the paint with the credit card over top of them. You can see a circle flower stencil in this one…
I certainly didn’t have as much success as Michelle did with her masks but I did have fun trying…no critics in the Queen of Arts Studio!
I saw something in this page as soon as I smeared that purple on with a circular smush of the credit card…
Do you see it ?
Yep ! A Bird !!!
This is is Irving, the Homing Pigeon and his home, who came into being with some additional painting, some black ink and a collaged house on a pole.
I love him…
One more benefit of playing with paint like this is you end up with fingers that look like this :
I think I can see these shots played with and added to a journal page in the future as well.
Painted fingers are a definitely JOY to me !
So a big thank you to Michelle for the great inspiration she provides every month. Head over to the GPP Street Team blog to see some more great scraping !
Come on, Irving, let’s fly away home…
Happy Sunday, Beautiful Ones !
43 comments:
I love this Kim, how different, but just as beautiful as ever, My Queen! xoO
woohoo! LOVELY. I am working on Michelle's crusade too :)
I love this....what a great technique! I love all these beautiful colors and your painty handie pandies!
LuLu♥
You ended up with some wonderful backgrounds!
I really like the first one (I kind of see a long-necked cat or a giraffe on the left... the orange spot) and your bird is so fun to look at.
Hugs,
Sophie
Wow, these are fabulous - love the colours of the second, and the third one with the hears is just magnificent. And Irving, what a bonus! Wonderful work, Kim.
Yay! She's back on our street ;)
Love your effects - and your colors. That heart page is fabulous! Love that your *eye* saw a bird and you went for it. Super cool to see the before and after. Thanks for coming back to play with us - especially while procrastinating!! Have a great trip. xo
Yep, my fingers were like that too - and my face!!!
I didn't spot Irving till he came out of hiding but it made me relook at your lovely backgrounds and I can definately see a fish with its orange eye really looking at me in the second one down!
I love what you've done and that you loved doing it so much!
Karen
awesome results, kim! i love every one of them! your birdie is perfectly delightful too! i loved this challenge!
I love these Kim they look great. Thanks for sharing the technique, I will try it. I'm looking forward to getting equally messy hands!
nothing better than colorful joy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You are sweet. You love your fingers painted. And there I was wearing gloves. ;-)
Love getting the hands painty! Have a wonderful time, I hope you have good weather, good talks, good wine and great art making!
Wow! amazing pages. :) Just love Irving. Arh, messy fingers.. always a sign of joy to me too. Happy crafting. Gez.
Love the colors, Kim!!! and every page is stunning...have a happy trip!!!
have a wonderful time, your art looks fantastic. I liked the bird too. have fun.
thank you for your early morning visit. i have missed this cyber family while enjoying an unexpected heart warming visit from a dear friend.
love the beauty i find here....
and always your radiant heart.
What great pages Kim! Love your color choices and how the scraping blended them together. Thanks for sharing! Oh yeah, the bird is fabulous!
Kim, I love love love the second page. I feel like I could dive right into that page and probably find a mermaid!
These are inspiring! Love the hearts, and loved seeing you take one through the next step. -Kim
Glad I'm not the only one who wears her paint! My husband can always tell when I've been creative cause I can never seem to find it all to wash it off! LOVELY work - I think your heart masks worked great! I see a cityscape in the first one....
Cindi
You went all the way with your scrapings! The colours are great!
very cool work! I love the stenciling your incorporated, such interesting pieces!
Yay, glad you're back cruising! I too think the months just pass so quickly, it's amazing how many days there are and yet sometimes the crusades can't be fit into them!
I like the heart page a lot, you really see the hearts even though they are subtle and in the "background", nice!
Hi Kim,
So glad you came to play! I love all of your pages the one with the 'rip' effect is a fave. Also your bird is too cool. Have a great trip my friend.
i love your pigeon too!!!
your backgrounds are dreamy
& i'm sending much love
to you this good morning!!
xox
Beauty, imagination, and willing to do the work!!! That's what creating is all about. You are a great creator!
Love you precious one.
Mom
Oh I love your scrapings, especially the found art one. Such a cute bird. Maybe he will have future stories to tell. The hands look so fun, I love seeing painted hands pictures. I had never thought of throwing them into an art journal page, that is really putting yourself into your art.
Have a wonderful day my queen.
Kate
i love all these pages, and the colors are great! So cool that you took it further and did the bird. Thanks for sharing!
I really love the third one - the hearts and colours are gorgeous!
Oh! A use for those pesky old credit cards! I wish I had one right now.
I love the effect.
I love the scrape too. YOur bird is so wonderful, so Kim...and the hands too.....xox Corrine
these are gorgeous! I love how the last image led you to Irving.
xo
I loved the hearts hidden in the pages! I really loved seeing Irving come to life right before my eyes :)
These are so BEAUTIFUL, Queen of My Heart! Don't you just love to use masks? And hearts, of course? My all-time favorite of my abstracts has a mask of a heart in it too. Makes me think of you! Your lime green and plum-colored painting with the hidden bird is just divine; it reminds me of one of Katherine Treffinger's abstracts (check out her out in my blog roll). I'm also loving your "I Am" journal spread. I am dying to do some journal pages, but what with being back and school and trying to get enough paintings ready for a festival in early November, I've had to cast aside my first love for a while. YOu've inspired me so much today, though, that maybe I can manage squeeze in a few pages, if I sleep less.....
Gorgeous papers and I love your bird! It's a good thing you found him hiding in your paper ;-) Thank you for sharing !
WOW! Is that enough? WOW!
Your pages are great! The colours are so vibrant and clear!
Rachel
You are right; that heart mask is a cracker. Love the bird too. I'm like you, I wear my art on my hands LOL
Hi Beautiful! i love the 5th one. I see a fairy or nature creature of some sort there. And--of course, i really love the bird. As my husband says-- always a bird for Terry. :)
What great pages you've created! Love the colours and textures.
Painted hands, a sure sign of a fun time. Love the page that "birthed" the bird!
Love what you made, beautiful colors and the stencils worked out fine.
I love the blue and purple page. It looks like rain to me. And it's so cool how the bird came to be... happy creations from germany! tj
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