Try It On Tuesday

 Hi everyone. It's once again time for a new challenge at Try It On Tuesday. 

 Before I get to that, I want to introduce the 2 new members of our design team. First I want to welcome Pia who you might recognize from her blog  Papir og Perler (Paper and Beads for those of us who don't read Norwegian). Secondly I also want to welcome Viv who you might recognize from her blog Viv's Visuals. It's wonderful to have them join our team!

And I also want to thank everyone who joined us for our All You Need Is Love challenge. I also want to say thanks to Lorraine for being our guest host for our last challenge.

And now for the new challenge, which is right up my alley, but also a little tricky too.

Let's Get Messy

I stepped out of my usual journaling mode and made 2 cards for this challenge. This first one you see is the one I linked up to the Try It on Tuesday blog because I thought it was a bit messier.

I used some pre-cut card sized watercolor backgrounds and bright watercolor paints. On my first card I used various colors and watercolored the entire background before outlining with a pen, stamping the smile word and also adding some tiny white flowers that are meant to be used in a shaker card. I think they work great as a little embellishment.  I didn't photograph the inside of my card before I sent it out, but I wrote in, when life gets messy, be sure to smile.

My other card had a monotone watercolored background with stamped images. I then used my watercolors to paint in the flowers and leaves. I did use a white paint pen on the center of the flowers. The words came from a stamp with lots of words on it, and I also added more of those little shaker card flowers.

I used to make a lot of cards, but that was years ago. It can definitely be  a different process from art journaling, and I should make more of them because it forces me to think  about what exactly I want to say .

And for more messy art (grin), be sure to check out what the other design team members created for this challenge. 

Thanks for visiting my blog. I hope you'll get messy and join us at Try It On Tuesday for our latest challenge.