It's funny what can inspire someone (me). Rhys's second birthday party was last week (see the painted magnetic party favors in the previous post), and, as expected, he received gifts. Therefore, I needed to make thank you cards. I was immediately inspired by the tissue paper in one of the gift bags. I've never been inspired by by tissue paper before! Half of the paper was a bold blue, and the other have was wonderfully green and blue striped.Anyway, the cards above are what resulted.
I've been wanting (desperately!) to make a potato stamp and play with it, so I cut a simple fish out of half of a potato. I used acrylics to stamp the fish. Finally, I added the ol' grade school favorite: tissue paper "painted" on with water-thinned white school glue. I had so much fun! And, I managed to get a dozen of them done in the hour when I had a mother's helper here to play with Rhys, so I even have extra.
Not only can inspiration be unexpected; the materials with which to fulfill inspiration can also be surprising. While garage saleing (I'm verbing a noun...) this weekend, we stumbled upon a huge fishing tackle/art storage box with about $150 worth of new acrylic paint tubes in it. The seller just wanted to get rid of it, so I got it for $15. Now, I have to paint just to use up some of the stuff!!
