Lagging on Posts

 

Sure, I’ve gotten behind iin updating my blog.  Life happens and we all seem to be playing catch up.  I’ve still had a little bit of play time but have also taken in a few rescue dogs with their puppies.  At one point, we had our 3 dogs plus 12 add-ons!  One mama and her 3 pups were transported to a rescue group in Colorado so we only have 8 extras now.

Got this gesso which was significantly discounted but then when I opened it, it was already about 2” down from the top of the bucket.  That’s okay, I think what is left in there will last me a long time as I’m not gesso-crazy like some art journal/mixed media crafters.  I did pages without and then with to see the reaction of the color mediums I work with.

These were the pages without the gesso:

Then a few shots adding gesso to some blanks – and over colors already there:

I just continued to play and have fun.  To me making a mess and enjoying the process is what I like about crafting – losing myself for hours in pure fun:

I believe where the colors are similar above, the first image was without gesso and the second image (where the water beads up a bit more) is with the gesso.  I like both so I can’t say whether I’ll become a gesso maniac or not.

Now onto some cards I made:

I think that’s it for this update.  You may have seen that butterfly in another shot when it was created – but now it’s become a card front.  For a HUGE card, that is.  I had to go buy some A7s and then cut the image down to fit onto it.  The paper on the rooster card was in that same blog post – but I added the rooster stamps and sent it to my boss for his birthday (they have a mini-menagerie including about 8 chickens).