Circles You Say?

Well GOOD Friday all my crafty friends!! It has been a HUGE gap of time since I have posted! It has been crazy for me for the last several weeks. We went on vacation and then when I came back it was, catch up and then after catch up its been budget, budget, budget at work!!  So needless to say, it has been busy for me and I haven't had a whole lot of spare time! But as has been my norm to "ssskkkiiiidddd" in at the last minute (that was for you Zsuzsa) so today I will be FINALLY sharing my Tag It Tuesday challenge tag from over on Cards and More By Sheri blog!

Sheri's challenge this month involved us using the Pantone colors of Serenity and Snorkel Blue. Well since I didn't have either of those colors, it allowed me to get out my paints and go to town mixing and playing! I came up with the closest I could with both colors.  Then we were to use circles in some way. As a rule, I don't like things like polka dots, but since doing mixed media, I have grown to love using circles in projects in any fashion. They have become FUN!!!

I began this tag with a coat of gesso and then laid down a few pieces of book page and washi tape.  I then took my mixed version of Sheri's Pantones and just started layering down with brush, fingers and art knife. I love seeing what kind of texture I will come up with. I then knocked it back a little bit with a little bit more of watered down gesso.                                                                                                                                I then took one of my favorite stencils, which is a bubble stencil from Donna Downey and put some of my homemade texture paste through for some texture and the required element. I then took some of my all time favorite Daler Rowney Pearlescent Ink in Galactic Blue and some Inka Gold in Steel Blue and dripped scraped and shaded here and there.

I had some emphemera, scapbook papers and gelli print papers that I used to make further circles and the took the cute little wooden element, and metal heart and added as well. I added the stick on "Hope" with some ribbon and voila!

This was a quick tag this month, BUT I guess it had to be huh? LOLOL  I feel terrible because I didn't get to do my Pick A Stick Challenge, but I've got a whole other month coming to me....they just keep coming! LOLOL

I feel very blessed because I had a lady at work that commissioned me to do a large canvas for her son and soon to be daughter-in-law's wedding! I'm so excited and I hope I do it justice. I will be posting some snips from it or at least the finished project. 

I will be flying home next month.....YIPPEEEEEEE.....to see my family in Santa Fe, NM and I am so, so excited. It's been three years since I went home so I am about to bust something! LOLOL I have been working on some projects that have been taking a lot of my time as well to take home to my stepmom. I did her a piece a couple of years ago and at that time she wanted me to do three more and I was like, oh sure, no problem! Well.......that was three years ago! LOLOLOL So I am making it good and going to take them home with me when I go! I will be posting those soon as well!

I hope everyone is gearing up for summer! It's full fledged here in Georgia! It was 92 degrees when I went out earlier! Yikes!!! Imagine what the dead of summer will look like???? GULP!

I hope you guys have an AWESOME weekend filled with lots of fun! Blessings