Steadfast and resolute....so not me!

First I want to wish everyone a Happy New Year and secondly, no resolutions that cannot be kept!

I feel so strongly about that, that even my cards for New Years reflect my laid back attitude this year, AND you can read about my "maybe" resolutions for the New Year HERE.

My feather stamp is handmade and I used acrylic paint to stamp on some inked up goodies I had laying around...ok, they were stored and hoarded. lol

The first one is from the sheet of wax paper that I keep in the bottom of my spray box.

 I just love how the ink sits on top of the wax paper and dries then gets layered with more inks. Over time you can truly create some beautiful papers this way.

 Next is a paper towel. We all know about blotting up inks from our Dylusional journals and those paper towels can become works of art as far as I am concerned.

I do keep seperate towels for blotting up colors that look good together and make sure to stop when they are saturated with just the right amount of color. I also pull the layers of paper towels apart for a more translucent look.

This is a bit of tissue paper, crumpled up and used to blot inks colors.

The key to good colors here is to not overdo it, the tissue really absorbs the ink.

Last, is not my favorite I admit. It's a dryer sheet. Maybe I don't like the muddy colors?

It does have great texture but even the acrylic paint soaked into the sheet too much. I'm still trying to find uses for these sheets.

I love the play on the authors name. Did you know a feather is a symbols for a new beginning? Very appropo for a New Years card I think.

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And for my friend Tamiko, who wanted to see the stamp I made, here it is, in all it's painted goodness.
 It's drawn with Puffy Paint on cardboard.

 I use it on my gelli printing, this is the first time I used it to make a card with it. I rather like it :)