Wednesday, July 13, 2016

WOYWW #371

Hey, hey, hey it's Wednesday all my crafty friends! I feel like so many others whose blog I've read this morning...IS IT ALREADY WEDNESDAY AGAIN!!!! LOLOL That only comes from folks who have done minimal crafting and know that they have to give a peek of what they aren't....ummm...ARE doing! LOL  Fortunately for me, I have been doing a little, just not anything to get a Pulitzer for! LOLOL
So here is the state of affairs on my work desk this morning after I finished a project last night that I will share in a minute!  I LOVE ATC's and I am currently working on a couple for a new Mid Month ATC Challenge that is being held in conjunction with the Pick A Stick Challenge that I participate in every month over on Facebook.  I was so excited when Shel, who picked the sticks this month, announced this new challenge because I used to do ATC Swaps and had gotten out of it and had been missing it, so yay me, I'm back on the wagon! LOLOL Any excuse to have art fun!

Shel, as the stick picker this month, picked three sticks from the ten that were pulled for the Pick A Stick Challenge for us to use as prompts and guidelines. She will then post her ATC's reveal on the 15th for all to see and then at the end of the month, on the last day of the month, the Pick A Stick crew will pick four winners to receive the ATC's that Shel made.  Three of the winners will be someone who participated in the Pick A Stick Journal Challenge over on Facebook, because that is the main challenge, and then the fourth winner will be someone who participated in both the Pick A Stick Journal and ATC Challenges. Woo hoo! I love it! :)

So the project I finished last night was my other monthly challenge, which is also over on Facebook, which is Tag It Tuesday from Sheri Whitfield! Truthfully tags and ATC's are my fave things to do, but let's be honest ANY mixed media project is awesome sauce to me!! LOLOL As I said earlier, I don't need ANY excuse to have art fun, but we all have our faves!
Sheri usually gives us prompts, but also this year, has been giving up Pantone color prompts to use. This month, Sheri only gave us Pantone color prompts which were:
Yow!!!!! Is what I said! What is that Lilac Gray????????? LOLOLOL You can fudge Fiesta, but Lilac Gray????? Well as it were I DID fudge Lilac Gray because I don't have Pantone colors in my hip pocket! LOL But, fudge I did! I just took about three different cheapo acrylics and did my thing! And.....I think I did pretty good, LOLOL!

I love getting goodies from online buddies and when you get in different swaps, you often get the cutest things from your partners in crime! I had actually bought some goodies from Peg over on Facebook's Peg's Craft Supply last year and in her box she gifted me some lace that I have used in quite a few projects and I decided to use some again in this project since the lace had flowers on it and I knew I wanted to use flowers on this tag. So I cut some patches out and adhered them down with some Aleene's and then I gesso'd all over the big 4x8 size tag (a HUGE stack was gifted to me by one of my other sweet online buddies) and then painted on my Lilac Gray concoction in the areas around the lace.

I then took out a couple of Tattered Angels Glitter Mist sprays that I thought, when sprayed together, would make sort of a "lilac color." It did ok, but whose keeping score? I then took a fave stencil from Wendy Vecchi that I had on my desk last week and stenciled through with another acrylic paint from
PaperArtsy that I thought would be close to Fiesta and then sprayed another Tattered Angels Mist over top of that. I fussy cut my flowers out and then found some scrap papers to cut some stems from.

I did a bit of texturing on the background and some splatters along with distressing the edges and edging with Distress Ink. I decided to put a little Stickles in the middle of my flowers and then popped up my sentiment, added some ribbon and voila! I did it Sheri! LOLOLOL

I had fun, no doubt! It WAS a challenge on those colors, but that's what it's all about! I'm hopping over to some other WOYWW desks and see what you are all up to!

Here's to a FABULOUS Wednesday! :)

30 comments:

  1. I'm all about fudging colours. Great job! Lovely work!
    Sheila #45

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    1. LOLOL, me to as it were! LOLOL Thanks Sheila! Blessings

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  2. Hi Felicia, I love your projects, and I think you did great with the colours.Have a great week, Hugs, Shaz #6 xxx

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    1. Awwwww Shaz, thanks so much! What a blessing! You have a great week too! :)

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  3. Beautiful! The colours go really well together. Swaps are fun!

    Have a great week
    Sharon K #34

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    1. Thanks Sharon! I have to say, in the end, I thought they did too! Wasn't sure at first! LOLOL Yes, I do enjoy swaps! :) Blessings and thanks for stopping in! :)

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  4. Wonderful stuff Girl! and how you are making me want to join in on these two great challenges... you never know, maybe next month - grin Scrapbooking Artist Lynne Mizera WOYWW #42

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    1. Thanks so much Lynne! Come on and join us! We have fun and the ladies that participate are so creative and fun as well! Thanks for stopping in! Blessings

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  5. That text stencil is one of my absolute favourites. They have just brought out another with a slightly different style but about the same size lettering. I love ATCs too and I'm pleased to see that they are becoming more popular again. Happy crafty woyww, Angela x 23

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    1. I KNOW.....I love that stencil as well! NOW you have made me want to get the other one! LOLOL It would seem you are an enabler! LOLOL Thanks for coming by and many blessings to you! :)

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  6. Great tag and your post was so funny. I never really gotten into ATCs, but I can see how giving and receiving them would be a lot of fun. Have a great week! Dorlene #40

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    1. Thanks Dorlene! ATC's are fun, you should give them a go! They are just the right size because they aren't so overwhelming like a blank page or a bigger tag can be sometimes. So I like to do them when I may not have a lot of big ideas going on and I just want to pop something out! Too fun! Thanks for dropping in and you have a GREAT weekend as well! :)

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  7. I really enjoyed your cheery tag. Those colors look great.

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    1. Thank you sweet Peg! Many, many blessings to you my friend! :)

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  8. The tag is gorgeous and you've done a great job with the colours - that's a really good combination. Thanks for stopping by earlier, hope you have a great week,
    Diana #19

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    1. Thank you so much Diana, I felt good about the colors when I got done, so that's a plus (you know we are our own worst critic! LOL) You are very welcome, I LOVE stopping by your blog, you are so very talented and creative! Thank YOU for stopping in and blessings for a great weekend! :)

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  9. Oh, you did really well with those two colours!! I love the tag with the bog bold flowers, clever you! I also like the gold circles on the ATC in the first pic, they really caught my eye, love em!
    Hugs, LLJ xxx

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    1. LOL, thank Jan! I really enjoyed doing this tag and was happy in the end.....AFTER....I debated the color! LOLOLOL Yea, I like the starts of that ATC as well...not sure what it will become, but it's so much fun doing them! The gold circles are with Finnabair's crackle texture paste! LOVE that stuff! :) Thanks for stopping in and have a great day! :)

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  10. What a lovely tag!! You made the colors work!
    I'm going to have to check out the FB pages your mentioned, not that I need to add any more challenges to my project list.
    ~Blessings,
    Carmen #9

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    1. Thanks so much Carmen! Yes, check them out! LOLOL I know what you mean! I had to pair it down last year because I was involved in so much, but now I want to pick a few back up again...I miss it! :) Thanks for stopping by! :) Blessings

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  11. I love what you do with that lilac gray. I look at it and see a smokey lavender. I love doing ATCs as well. Someday I'll get back into swapping. Thanks for stopping by my blog this week. I can't work unless I'm organized. Why I'm way behind in a lot of my crafting/ blogging LOL Creative Blessings! Kelly #33

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    1. Thanks Kelly, that was a hard one to mix! But I did have fun trying to get it fine tuned though....any excuse to mix stuff around and make a mess! LOLOL Thanks for coming by! :) Blessings

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  12. lovely tag, thank you for sharing. donna #16

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    1. Thank you so much Donna and thanks so much for stopping in! :) Blessings

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  13. Hopelessly late at desk hopping this week - it will be Wednesday again if I don't get a move on!! That tag is really gorgeous! x

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    1. Jo, I sooooo know what you mean! I will be late to my funeral....or so my mother says! LOLOLOL Thanks so much and thanks for stopping in! Blessings

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  14. Coming in a bit late this week - eeks! Loving the beginnings of those ATCs already! The inky stamps tell me that you don't clean your stamps either? I never do! Unless I use acrylic paints, of course. Loving your take on the colour challenge - it turned out wonderful! Those two colours actually go well together - who would have thought! Again, the sentiment looks like it's floating above the tag - amazing! One of these days I'll have to steal your secret! Enjoy your Sunday - our is coming to an end here soon. xx

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    1. Hey, as I told Jo, I KNOW all about late!! I think it's my middle name! LOLOL No, I don't clean my stamps (unless I use acrylic, like you) and I am sure that some of those stamp police out there were horrified when they saw my stamps! LOLOL I usually am in a hurry....remember the late thing....so I don't have time! I just work and move on! LOLOL Thanks for the sweetness concerning my tag....yes all said and done, those two colors didn't work too bad together! I would have never picked them, which is why I love doing the challenges. It gets me out of my box! I would love to swap "secrets," just wish we lived down the road from one another and we could have play time together to swap! As it were, oceans divide and we STILL have to snail mail swap and then we could slip in little secrets across the divide! LOLOL I have some crafty bits and bobbles that I have been working on here and there that I am planning to send you....I just have to finish them all, in between all those challenges I signed up for! And....the unfinished canvas for my girlfriends sons wedding! Eeeek! I got to get a move on! LOLOL Thanks for stopping in my friend, late or not, I love you coming round! :) Blessings

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  15. Gorgeous tag. I love the way you mixed your paints to match the lilac gray.

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    1. Thanks Karenliz! It was crazy, but it worked! LOLOL Thanks for coming by! Many blessings to you!:)

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