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We can do no great things,
only small things
with GREAT love.
Mother Teresa.

Finally crossed the half way mark of the 365 challenge,

although be it with babysteps,

I will get there in time.

Wonder where my inspiration came for this series? 😉

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Can you guess the theme of this week's icads?

These Valentines icads were so much fun making,

the backgrounds were done very quickly,

no thinking involved there,

then came the process of looking for the perfect elements for each one of them.

I honestely can't tell which one is my favourite.

what about you?

I am very glad I choose the icads as format for this challenge,

manageble but yet so much fun and so much opportunities.

DPP1 rainbow

The last couple of months my creativity has been on a very very low level, actually almost non existing.

In order to reignite it I searched for some ideas and stumbled across Daisy yellows daily paper prompts:

a series of 67 techniques-based creative prompts to learn, practice or otherwise interpret a variety of techniques that could then be components or lead to new ideas for art.

It is a little nudge to help me commit to a recurring creative play date.

Prompt 1 is rainbows.

I started out by selecting all the colors of the rainbow in panda oil pastels and colored the rainbow in the shape of a heart, no thinking just doing.

I felt like creating a sunburst so I took a babywipe and wiped  stripes from the inner heart outward.

Next I punched out a whole bunch of butterflies in the same colors and glued them on the corresponding colored heart.

However I seem to have issues keeping them glued down on the oil pastels, should I have sealed it first? Or use another type of glue? (I now used Rangers glossy accents)

The prompt did the trick because I did 2 pages in one go.

On the second page I sprayed Dylusions spray inks over the page in the colors of the rainbow, on a separate page I colored the rainbowcolors diagonally with oil pastels,cut out hearts in different sizes and glued them to the page.

I created some drips on the top with white ecoline, only to realize that of course the Dylusions react with waterbased products, oops.

Not sure whether this page is finished or not, but for now I call it finished.

JAM#6 hobbies/use inktense

Hello and happy Valentinesday everybody,

I worked on my 6th JAM page today, for which we needed to use Inktense and tell about our hobbies.

because it is Valentinesday and hobbies is something you love to do and are passionate about I started out by cutting different sizes of hearts out of booktext. I aslo added some texture paste through a dotted stencil.

Next I used three Inktense pencils which I rubbed with a wet paintbrush to color my page with.
I used tangerine around the hearts, sun yellow inside the hearts and sienna gold for the rest of the page.

Inside the hearts I did some stamping.

Next I fiddled a bit with my silhouette to cut the clock butterfly stencil, but am pleased how that turned out.
Typed the quote 
Time spent with family is worth every second.
and made 3 little tags with my hobbies on which are creating (of course), reading and family time.
I attached them to the page with these cute little heart shaped paper clips. 

I just read that this forthnightly challenge over at The Craft Barn is hearts and we are not suppose to use red on them, so this fits in perfectly.

canvas hearts

While sitting with my son helping him sorting the colors of iron beads for his project he suddenly gave me an assignement. I needed to make something for him with hearts and glitter.
So I made this for him

I started out by prepping the canvas with some gesso and scribbling some yellow and green gelsticks on it

which I smooshed out with a wet babywipe. Love the magic of seeing the dry crayon-marks turn into paint. I sprinkled some salt on to the canvas while it was still wet and let it dry, but I didn't achieve the desired effect. O well, so be it, it did however add a glimpse of glitter so that was good as that was part of my briefing. 

I cut some hearts out of bookpages which I also colored with the gelsticks and added a black border with a babywipe which I rubbed over the black gel stick. Some washitape and text stamping and I was pleased with how the background turned out.

I knew the focal point would be the hearts my son had made with the iron beads but it needed something more, while browsing my box with collage material I found these cute birds thorn from a kids book and another bird from a magazine add.

I like how it appears that they are looking at each other or even how  it seems that the bird is serenading the 2 birds up in the tree.