Funky Cat Studio

So I’ve finally got around to ‘forcing’ myself to do some weekly art challenges :) Nah, not really forcing. I want to do these. The motivation to do them is the hard part :-p

For Created Byhand, this week’s challenge was Watercolor Backgrounds:

Yup, I did the plastic wrap background. 2nd time ever. I’m going to use this background in the Inspire me Thursday’s Peace challenge. HopefullyI’ll get that done before tomorrow when they’ll prolly put up a new challenge lol

So watch this space to see if I complete any other challenges from my list!

*eta* My goal was to do the Peace challenge for Inspire me Thursday before midnight. Here it is!

And here’s what I did:

1. Went through all my pre cut out word stash and picked out the words I felt were connected to Peace in some way, shape or form.
2. Arranged them to fit in my glueartjournalthing all on one page. Had leftovers. It was difficult, but like Tetris ^-^… then I used my Elmer’s Gluestick to glue them down.
3. Did the lightest layer of Gesso I could do without watering it down. I wanted as much of the words readable as possible. It… went okay :-p Had to get a cloth out to whip words clean.
4. Used a ColorBox Fluid Chalk ink pad in Blue Lagoon and Versa Color in Royale Blue to ink up the Gesso.
5. Grabbed a random light blue colored pencil and filled a bit more of the white space in.
6. Cut that “The Center of it All” graphic into a peace sign, wove my tree through it (made by my handmade paper above) and glues some bits down with Elmer’s Rubber Cement.
7. Rubbed some Ranger’s Distress Ink in Dusty Orchard color on the edges of the tree.
8. Inked up the peace sign with ColorBox Fluid Chalk ink in Lime Pastel and Versa Color in Tropical Green, and inked the “blank” space with the Blue Lagoon again.
9. Glued the peace sign tree unit down with Rubber Cement again.
10. I had to get some of Portfolio’s Water Soluble Oil Pastels out of my system so I used a light green and light blue in places. Thinking back on it, I should have used those instead of the ink pads, but eh…

And, that’s pretty much it!