Friday, April 5, 2013

Little Scrap Pieces Fun Friday - April Showers

Happy Friday!! I hope you are having a great week!! My nieces are still here so I haven't had a chance to visit your blogs, but I will be by on Sunday night when they leave. It's time for a Fun Friday Challenge at Little Scrap Pieces :) Our theme this week is "April Showers" - we want you to use an umbrella, cloud, rain boots...


For my project, I wanted to use an awesome new rain stencil from The Crafter's Workshop, so I created a journal page.


The watercolor paper was spritzed with water and then sprayed with Dylusions sprays in Cut Grass, Fresh Lime, Dirty Martini, Calypso Teal, Vibrant Turquoise and London Blue. A Darkroom Door script stamp was stamped with Ranger Aquamarine Archival Ink. Stamps from Paper Wings Productions' Art Textures stamp set were stamped with Jet Black Archival Ink. A toothbrush was dipped in white acrylic paint and flicked across the page. The raindrops are a Crafter's Workshop Rain stencil, sponged with white acrylic paint and outlined with a black Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Pen. The grass along the bottom is a Dylusions On the Edge stamp, colored in with Dylusions Cut Grass in a Tim Holtz Waterbrush. The border along the sides and top are from a Dylusions Further Around the Block set, colored in with a TH Waterbrush filled with Funky Fushia and a white Sakura Gelly Roll Pen. The edges of the page were outlined with a charcoal pencil.


April Showers was cut from a scrap piece of watercolor paper sprayed with Dylusions sprays in Squeezed Orange, Lemon Zest and Pure Sunshine. The letters are from TH's Wanted die and were scribbled with a white gelly roll pen.


The girl and umbrella are from Dylusions Ruby Rainbow stamp set. The umbrella was colored in with TH Distress Markers in Barn Door, Fired Brick, Dusty Concord and Walnut and a waterbrush. Ruby was colored with TH Distress Markers in Barn Door, Fired Brick, Spiced Marmalade, Wild Honey, Peeled Paint, Broken China, Dusty Concord, a waterbrush and a white gelly roll pen. Her hair was colored in with a waterbrush filled with Dylusions Lemon Zest. She was outlined with charcoal and then white charcoal. The bird is from a Dylusions How Does Your Garden Grow set, colored in with a waterbrush filled with Dirty Martini. The sentiment is a Tim Holtz Good Thoughts stamp set, colored in with waterbrushes filled with Postbox Red and After Midnight, and a white gelly roll pen. It was outlined with white charcoal.


I'm entering this in the following challenges:
  1. Simon Says Stamp and Show - Anything Goes
  2. Inspiration Emporium - Masks and Stencils
  3. DL.Art Thankful Thursday #106 - Spring
  4. Sunday Funday #8 - April Linky Party
Now it's your turn!! Head on over to Little Scrap Pieces to see the amazing projects my talented design team sisters have created for today's challenge. Then link up your April Showers project...I can't wait to see what you create :)

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48 comments:

  1. Awesome Card Lisa I just love the direction you are going with the artI love it.
    Thank you for joining my DL.ART Thankful Thursday Anything Goes April Linky Party
    DIANA L.
    http://dianamlarson.blogspot.com

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  2. Gorgeous!! Wow, how do you keep pushing these fabulous designs out? They are seriously amazing:) Such a work of art:) Hope your having a GREAT time with your nieces! I can't wait to here about all the fun!
    Have a great wknd!
    Sherrie K

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  3. Adore that sentiment! Hope you are having fun with your nieces how much fun that must be to spend some quality time with them. Okay seriously my middle daughter graduated from Alfred university with a BFA degree and at the senior show this would have been at the top of the class...think you missed your calling...should have been an artist...oh wait...you are an amazing one! Karen

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  4. WOW!!It's AMAZING! Absolutely GORGEOUS!!
    Your Creativity goes far and beyond!!I LOVE it!
    Enjoy your time with your nieces. You deserve it!
    Have a wonderful weekend my friend,
    M'
    ♥ Crafting With Creative M ♥
    ♥ 2 Creative Chicks ♥

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  5. Wow Lisa, what a gorgeous creation!! Love the funky look of this card and love the sentiment.

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  6. Fantastic Lisa. Love the design, colors and the image is TOOOO CUTE!!! you are amazing my friend. Have fun with the family. We miss you and will be here when you return.

    Have a creative day.
    Hugs Nana
    ♥ My Crafting Channel ♥
    ♥ 2 Creative Chicks ♥

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  7. Amazing! I love the bright, vivid colors and that fabulous image. You are doing such amazing work with all these incredible inks and images - love it all and always look forward to seeing what your creative mind will come up with next! Enjoy your visit with you nieces!

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  8. Lisa, what a fun, beautiful, and beautifully colored card!!!

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  9. Great looking page! Love the colors!

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  10. Wow fabulous Lisa, I love the fabulous colours the image and the verse.
    Kevin xx

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  11. Lisa my friend, you manage to make my mouth drop everytime you create. It's amazing, you are so talented my friend!

    Hope you are having a great time with your nieces. I was just with mine and I love Auntie time :)
    Shelly

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  12. OMG Lisa - this is such a fabulous journal page. Love those vibrant colours and image. WOW! Have a fabulous weekend.

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  13. Love how you've become more created with this type of art on your cards... love all the colors and distressing... So pretty!
    Enjoy your wonderful time with the girls but be fun have some girly time with them....

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  14. WOW Lisa! I love how artistic this is!!!! Just beautiful - the colors are gorgeous! Enjoy your weekend with your nieces!

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  15. wow...amazing mixed media artwork...love all the coordinating colour and it is very vibrant too!

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  16. Gorgeous!!!! Love the rain stencil and how you outlined all the drops, as well as the cute little girl :) Hope you are having an awesome week girl!

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  17. WOW Lisa, another stunning mixed media creation!! Love all the beautiful colors. So creative.

    Have a great weekend!

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  18. Love the cute girl. Her hair is so cool. Those tights are fabulous. have a great weekend.

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  19. I love this. I love the quote and fun girl.

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  20. Well, you did it: you made rain fun. :)

    Great card and the colors are totally awesome. Love the technique!

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  21. This is so pretty, Lisa! I love the bright colors and the image of the girl is adorable! Great sentiment too! :)

    Karen
    craftedwithlovebykaren.blogspot.com

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  22. Great job, Lisa. Those colors are so vibrant and exciting. Love the raindrops.

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  23. Great idea to use acrylic paint with your stencil and outline the rain drops... what a great look that gives. Your page is so vibrant... these inks are amazing... bright and bold! FANTASTIC, Lisa!
    Have a wonderful Sunday!

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  24. Wow Lisa, this is so artsy! Just love all the details on this! Carri~Abusybee

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  25. Lisa..your "Dylusional" card is really cute! Love the colors and your design! You are very clever...how you altered Ruby to raise her arm and hold the umbrella! Thanks so much for sharing your art with us at Simon Says Stamp and Show. <3 Candy

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  26. Lisa you even make rain look exciting. This is so beautiful. Hugs Polly x

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  27. Lisa, This is absolutely stunning! I love all those bright colors!
    {hugs}
    Indy

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  28. Hi Lisa. This is as always sooo beautiful!! I love, it!! Have a great week,
    Hugs Gerda

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  29. Stunning Lisa the delusions stamp is fab and you have used such a great colour palette

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  30. I keep saying the same things whenever I pop in and see a new journal page...but I am going to say it again....THIS is gorgeous my friend! You are talented busting out of the seams....I LOVE LOVe LOVe this!!!!
    Another gorgeous mix of colors and textures and overall creativity!
    Thanks for sharing and hope you had a GREAT weekend!!

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  31. WOW! super beautiful my friend and I love all the color!! Thank you for stopping by today!!
    Hugs,
    Norma

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  32. LOL As you can tell I am stalking a bit. So sorry I haven't been by in awhile but just wanted to let you know that I am always inspired with your creations and I just LOVE this. The colors and Textures seriously looks amazing. Awesome Details. Hope you have a wonderful week.

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  33. That is great! I love all the vibrant colors. Thank you for joining us at Inspiration Journal this month. =)

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  34. So pretty, love the colours and the fantastic image and the sentiment is my favorite
    Lindsay xx

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  35. Good afternoon my dearest friend, I'm back from a short holiday in the mountains^_^
    This card is really wonderful, very beautiful image and colors used^_^ A very happy card with rain^_^
    Have a lovely end day^_^
    Huge hugs,
    Sonia

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  36. Oh my gosh Lisa is this Fabulous, girl you have the mixed media down for sure!! I love the rain and the totally fun image ;)

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  37. This is so totally cool! I can't wait to start playing with my new stuff!

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  38. Love it.All of those colors just blend so perfect.Fab mixed media page.

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  39. Amazing journal page Lisa! Just love how you mixed everything.Sorry I am so late catching up.
    Hugs
    Jayne x

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  40. Wonderful use of this stencil, Lisa! Those colors rock my soul, too. You continue to amaze and inspire. Thanks a ton.

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  41. Ohhh, love all the Dylusion goodness, love it!
    I've been eyeing that raindrop stencil! ;)

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  42. Where do I start? The colors of this page - amazing. I love how bright it is and how the colors flow together. The umbrella, the texture on it, simply amazing Lisa. I really love seeing all of this art journaling you are doing. It is so inspiring. Keep up the FANTASTIC, AMAZING, and INCREDIBLE work!

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  43. Simply gorgeous and oh so fun!! Love what you are doing with the Dylusions stamps and spray inks!! ~ Blessings, Tracey

    http://gracescraps.blogspot.com/

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  44. OMG!!! LOVE this!!!! So bright and fun!!! Just love her hair :) You do wonders with the dylusion stamps :)

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  45. Great, colourful and bright journal page! What fun!

    Thanks for joining us in the masks and stencils challenge at Inspiration Emporium!

    Hugs

    Spike

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