Don't Just Dream It, Do It!

"Just by putting one foot in front of the other, you can climb any mountain."  Manorama  

 I got so many comments on "Embrace the Rain."  Thank you to everyone who left a kind word.  So more on this theme.  

First, I used stamped white gesso into this great gears stencil from StencilGirl:

Then I washed periwinkle, blue and white acrylic paint into it, sprayed it with water, and rolled a paper towel over it to lift off a lot of the paint.  You can see how the gesso did not grab the paint as well as the watercolor paper, and this created a cool texture.

 

I glued down some torn dictionary page scraps, and finger painted them with green and gold fluid acrylics:

I traced Balzer Designs' Blazonry stencil to create tops of trees: (I've also used this stencil to make surfboards!)

 Glued them down using some Glitz paper strips for tree trunks!

 

 Carved a cute chickie stamp, wrote out my text on card stock and cut it out, stamped and doodled, and voila:

Hope you like this plucky chick -- walking bravely to "Yes I Can, Yes I Will!"

Here's Samy talking to one of the ghouls in our front yard!  (Our house is really blue...)  Trying to get into the Halloween Spirit around here.

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Linking up to Mandarin Orange Monday (in honor of my orange chicky), Art Journal Cafe (handcarved stamp),  Inspire Me Monday, and Creative Everyday.