thanks to our Veterans...

this sentiment seemed appropriate for today...

thanks to all our veterans & to those currently serving & working hard to keep us safe...

we appreciate YOU so much...

this was a quick card to put together...

the diagonal stripes are the yikes stripes stencil, just used on an angle and stenciled with

 sky blue archival...

the floral collage is

 a favorite stamp-it stencil-it...

the flower is the gorgeous

forget-me-not archival & 

the leaves are stenciled 

with fern green & leaf green...

I had intended to stamp

then stencil & keep it completely flat,

 but I had a scrap of clearly for art already covered with newsprint, so I added another layer, with just the flower...

that little extra makes a big difference...

the sentiment and floral collage were both stamped with jet black...

you can see that t's a

simple & quick card...

I've had lots of requests for tutorials doing more art journal pages...

I KNOW...

it's been a while...

so...

I have one done & I'll be back on Friday with a ton of step out photos to show how I add multiple layers to the background 

with stamps, stencils & inks...

AND...

there's also

  a fun NEW technique...

here's a peek...

I'm really liking the tea rose, 

sky blue & leaf green archival trio of colors...

using jet black makes them all pop...

that's it...

time to edit the photos & write the tutorial...

see you back here on Friday...

enjoy your day &  

I hope you can...

make art!

wendy