I Enjoy You

Some people cook when they are stressed or eat. For me when I'm stressed I create or clean. In this case I've been doing both. I decided to experiment with oil pastels, regular colored pencils and cooking oil since I don't have any mineral oil. After a couple of days of experimenting this is the card I came up with.

Downloading Dover samples for the week there was this image. I already had it on my computer and remembered that I wanted to do something with it. I turned it into a print and cut. I first printed it on gray cardstock. After coloring it with regular colored pencils and oil pastels I took a cotton swab dipped in olive oil and rubbed it over the image. Alas the black ink smeared giving it a really gray cast.It was aweful but I didn't feel bad as it was relaxing doing the coloring and I need the practice.

 I then went and reprinted on white cardstock. I meant to color with my regular color pencils but picked up the watercolor ones instead by accident. I wasn't pleased with the pink so went back over the flowers with my regular colored pink pencil. I did use my aqua brush on the center of the flowers as I didn't mind the black bleeding a little bit there.

For the butterfly I first tried vellum and oil pastels. The cooking oil remained on top and didn't look like it was going to dry. I found a scrap of white cardstock and cut out another butterfly. I doodled with blue and pink oil pastels. Then took my cotton swab dipped in olive oil and rubbed it over the butterfly. I love how it turned out. For some reason the antennas always seem to tear when my Cameo cuts them. I double knotted a piece of scrapper floss in the middle and glued the bottom knot to the back of the butterfly.

I often agonize on how to do a sentiment and have it look like it wasn't just thrown on as an afterthought. When I saw the banner in the library I knew it would be perfect. I cut the bottom layer of the banner out of glimmer cardstock. The top was cut out of a scrap of white and then I stamped my sentiment.

I am running out of choices of colors of blank cards. When I saw this black textured blank card I knew it would be perfect. I don't normally do black cards but I think this ended up being elegant looking. I love it and I'm not as stressed out now. :-) I might have to do coloring therapy more often. ;-)

What do you do when you are feeling stressed?

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