Nature

Happy Friday everyone. Welcome to the rain forest and some more of the little critters who  live there.
 It is time for Paint Party Friday. Thanks again to Kristen and Eva for hosting; I love being able to stop by on Friday, and if you want to see some great art stop by too.

I'm also linking my journal page for Art Journal Journey. The theme this month is "Don't Go Into the Woods. Thanks to Chris of pearshapecrafting for hosting.

And for the next week and a half Try It On Tuesday is being hosted by Elizabeth of Altered.Book Lover and the theme is Nature. I am also linking up there too.

Wow, that's a lot of places you should go check out!

Here's a close up. I love these little lizards.

By layering SILKS paints I was able to create this cool lizardy looking color.  Now I am not sure what lizardy looking color actually is, but I like the multiple tints they have, which of course doesn't show up really well in the photo.

So here's how my page started. I cleaned a tree bark stencil on it, and then I stamped these shapes (kind of like leaves) using some Dina Wakely stamps.

I colored with markers, painted, die cut, painted, and glued things to finish my page.

So the spring cleaning urge has over taken me. I have a little list of things I want to do around my house. Hoping this weekend to knock off one or two of them. I wanted to do one the other night, which was painting around where the missing baseboard in my bedroom is, with the hope that when I hire myself a handyman this summer (and I think I might have found the right guy at the right price), I can get the baseboard and closet trim replaced.  However, I found it impossible to open the can of left over paint, which is hopefully good since its several years old. So maybe this weekend I can convince the hubby to use his brute strength to get the paint can open. (And hopefully he won't be rushed back to the emergency room either.) I've got some drapes to hem and a couple of cabinets which desperately need cleaning. A few books need to be put away too.  Not too bad of a list, and I am leaving  the BIG project of cleaning my basement laundry room off my little list, because I know that will have to wait until some other time. Not spring.

Plus I have a little play time scheduled Saturday morning which I will tell you more about later.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone! Hope its been a good week.