love

Let love fill your heart instead of hate.

When hate is in your heart,

There’s room for nothing else.

But when love is in your heart

There’s room for endless happiness.

Our next letter in the alpha/dictionary challenge over at The Craft Barn is L, which stands for love in the alphabet of happiness 

I wanted to use a resist technique with crayons and Distress stain (a newly rediscovered art supply, thanks to Carolyne Dube, more details of me rediscovering distress stains see here) to color the background. But unfortunately it didn’t turn out as expected, as these heart shapes 

didn’t really appear once I went over it with crushed olive Distress stain.

Oh well, no time to linger about. 

I typed out the definition on my typewriter (several times I must add as there is no backspace on a typewriter arghh),

Fussy cut this cute doggy in 3D and added some washi tape with hearts. Because the page was still a bit bare I started stamping (stars, doodles, butterflies) and doodling some myself.

Now it’s starting to look like it’s finished.

neglected art supplies - distress stains

Another supply that can use some dusting off are my distress stains.

Why do I suddenly think about neglected supplies? Well head on over to Carolyne Dube's blog and she'll explain you everything.

So I cut some tags and grabbed my stains and was all set for some play time.

This is an overview of the results

And here are the details

watercolor technique = applying distress stain (DS) to craft mat and swiping tag through it.

watercolor technique and stamping with DS

from left to right:

watercolor technique + DS blown with air can

drawn pattern with crayon (acts as a resist for the DS) + watercolor technique

watercolor technique + dauber dots

some textured tags
left: glue down crumbled up tissuepaper and add some DS 
right: scrunch up the still wet tag after the watercolor technique,
then add some DS to the crunches.

these ones didn't really turned out as hoped.

left:watercolor technique + watersplatters

centre: watercolor technique + placing a babywipe for a while on top

right:apply layer of babyoil, on top watercolor technique

I turned the tags in a little booklet for further reference by simply putting a bookring through the holes.