We're welcoming our first Guest Artist at Jingle Belles this week ... the amazing Gina Cunningham of tyggereye arts. For 2011, Gina has embarked on a medium-per-month play-along called Use, Practice, Create ... and this month's medium is acrylic paint ... so we thought it would be fun if the Jingle Belles played along.
I decided to try a new-to-me technique from page 37 of A Compendium of Curiousities ... Paint Dauber Resist. Here's a close-up of one of my fun little holiday tags featuring a cute little owl sticker (I love using up things from my hoarded holiday stash), Distress Inks, and Hero Arts Fabulous Flourish.
Click on over to Jingle Belles to see both of my finished tags, as well as amazing cards from Gina & Lauren.
I hope you'll break out your paint ... brush it, brayer it, splash it, splatter it, stamp or stencil with it, dab, drip, or drizzle it ... whatever you do, have fun with it.
I have two precious memories that will stick with me 4ever from 2010.
First, I took my family to Florida. We had several stops: Chicago, DC, then Ft. meyers. In Dc we were having a time getting to our gate. We had 30 minutes. We saw red, white, blue balloons and lots of fanfare at a gate. Assuming service ppl were coming home, someone over heard our inquiry and said it was an honor flight from MN. My heart stopped when I realized my 94 yo grampa was going to be on an honor flight...and he is from MN. They let us up to the gate as the people got off the plane, each one escorted by a well decorated vet. I took a guess that he was there and SURE ENOUGH he was! Wheelchair and all he came off the plane in DC as my family and I cried, as did the others waiting to recieve him there. We could not have planned this meeting if we tried!!!!! It was so amazing...flags music, ballons, screaming. We caught it on video and took pictures. He had never met his youngest great grand child which made it that much more sweet.