Do what makes you happy . . .

Happy Saturday everyone!

Tracy here today, I am sooo excited to be sharing . . .

" What makes me HAPPY "

For me it has to include a lot of splatters and splodges with Paint, Ink, Sprays,

 chopped up pretty patterned papers

and a smattering of stamps!

Apologies in advance for the longish post.

Now first I have a confession to make . . . my project was going to be " 3D beach huts " but while rooting around my shed I came across some cardboard packaging and before I knew what I was doing I had grabbed a pallete knife, cracked open the gesso and splattered it all over . . .

lovely lumpy bumpy texture!

Now being an impatient kind of girl . . . I grabbed my heat tool to speed the drying up, I love how it bubbles up and adds more texture.

Still thinking along the lines of beach huts at this point, a little snipping and chopping up of pretty papers by Fancy Pants - Down By The Shore Papers  along with some old book pages was required . . . sticking in place with Multi- Medium

Did I mention how I love to splodge and splatter?

I used a mixture of  Tim Holtz Distress Stains, Distress Re-Inkers and Ranger Perfect Pearl Mists .

I already started to outline and scribble here with a fine black liner pen but it did get lost along the way with more paint, inks and sprays added!

Okay another confession, at this point I had NO IDEA what so ever about what I was going to do next and went into a frenzy of paper cutting, inking, adding more paint, background stamps, stickers, washi tape . . . on and on until I ended up with this. . . little rickety shabby beach houses and seeing as I live in Scotland ... we do need chimneys to keep us warm, lol.

The frenzy would be like a You Tube video on fast forward!

Still Iwasn`t finished . . .

 Some sentiments from Donna Downey`s  Art and Possibility stamp set, chopped up and fixed in place with Glossy Accents and the the raffia . . .well you can imagine the mess I had created by this time and while moving things around the raffia fell ontop . . . kinda liked it, so spread more out and fixed in place using a hot glue gun.

Here are a few close ups . . . can you see I added more of the papers for a door, a heart and to stamp the sentiments on.You can see more of the splattered colours here and lots of scribbles along the way.

 Washi tape for chimneys and random alpha stickers for the smoke whirling out.

 I didn`t like the reddish roof this one had so I added another roof from a book page and blended it in.

Ooops forgot to mention that I have the Pan Pastels mixed media 1 set, I used the Black, Titanium White,

Permanent Red and the Turquoise from the set.

The finishing touch was to take a clear embossing pad, randomly apply, sprinkle with Utee and heat.

It hasn`t really shown up in the pictures but it sure does add another texture.

So now you know what makes me happy ... inky,painty splattered hands,lol.

 I hope you aren`t too disapointed at not seeing any 3D Beach huts, but instead my Scottish Shabby ones.

Take a little time and do what makes you HAPPY this weekend.

Till next time

Tracy x

List of materials from eclectic Paperie Shop, just click on the links -

 Claudine Hellmuth Studio - Multi Matt  Medium, Gesso

Tim Holtz Distress Stains -Weathered Wood, Walnut Stain, Peeled Paint, Fired Brick,Picket Fence

Tim Holtz ink Reinker -Tattered Rose, Tea Dye, Brushed Corduroy

Perfect Pearls Mists - Perfect Pearl, Bronze

Pan Pastels Mixed Media set 1

Inkssentials - Glossy Accents, Foam Blending Tool 

Mini Misters

Fancy Pants - Down By The Shore 6x6 paper pad

Unity Stamp Company - Art and Possibility stamps { Donna Downey }