Hello readers! Yes, it is me again. I will post once in a while, I guess. Right now, the only reason there will be a post for Tuesday Tea Party, is I am actually scheduling it ahead of time. It is Saturday afternoon, and I am playing in my craft room. I was inspired by a mixed media challenge on SplitcoastStampers and by Viki Parson's Keep it Light February Challenge over at **ART*JOURNAL*JOURNEY*
Actually, it all began with me earlier in the week looking at my mixed media supplies and finding some had dried up. I had a large jar Teresa Collins modeling paste, but it was hard as brick. That took me down a rabbit hole on You Tube looking for how to restore it. I really couldn't find anything but decided it would not hurt to put water in it and try. So, water, mix with popsicle stick, twist, still hard; added more water and did it some more. I did this off and on for a couple of days. Finally, I got it so I could use it.
When researching on You Tube, I did find some good advice: Buy smaller jars, and when you use it, make a lot of tags, papers, whatever, while you got it out. Next time it might be dry! I thought that was very good advice. It might be more expensive buying smaller jars, but in the long run cheaper, because you aren't throwing out the jar of hardened stuff!
Once I got the paste workable, I began playing with my favorite colors of TH oxides, and fun stencils. Since the challenge I was doing called for a napkin, I then looked through my napkins that I have received in swaps. Imagine my surprise and joy when I found a napkin with not only the colors I used, but some same shapes that I used from my stencil! I used some various TH stamps, faces, & Bible Verse stamp. I sprayed the whole thing with some white glitter mist. I added the punched dove by the Bible verse. I dated it, because that is what Elizabeth taught me to do!
Here is my art journal page in an 7x10 Canson 98 lb mix media book.
Now for my ticket to the tea party:
This is a photo from 2018 when we visited Maine.
