Love Me Some Wacky Holidays!

I think wacky holidays are really fun.  I have an ATC collection of wacky holidays that I've traded for over the years.  I joined a swap that requires the use of spray inks and for some reason (perhaps because I live near Seattle???) I decided to go with a wacky holiday for January 11th - Jump In a Puddle and Splash Your Friend Day.

The background was created with shimmery blue spray inks and the puddle with a chrome pen.  Trying to capture the shimmer is tricky...can you see it here?

Okay now, no excuses...put January 11th on your calendar and don't forget your rain boots!

Bizarre Holidays ATCs: February

I think the wacky, unusual holidays are fun to celebrate.  For over a year now I've been participating in monthly bizarrre, wacky holiday trades on ATCsForAll and now I've started playing in the same swap over at SwapBot too.  I don't need an excuse - love making these!  In addition to the one I showed in my last post, I made these for February.

These images are from Vera Lane Studio.  I can't get enough of these - so fun and cute without being over-the-top cute.

I splurged and bought a big box of watercolor crayons recently.  I used them on these ATCs.  I think I'll be playing with them a LOT.  I had to choose this holiday because I'm a wee bit of a coffee addict.  :)

After my dad passed away, we found a box of stamps that he must have collected when he was a wee lad.  I nabbed it to use in my art and that's where these stamps came from (except the butterfly).

I always seem to gravitate to Umbrella Day for the February holidays.  Maybe it's because it's my sister's birthday or maybe it's because I live in Seattle!  This first one is made from a gelli print that I had in my stash.  I also used my watercolor crayons again.

For this umbrella card, I whipped out the raindrop stamp set that I've had forever but hardly ever use.  I think it helped that the last few days have been excessively rainy around here.  I used my Distress markers to color the umbrella.

Pretty pleased with myself that February isn't even here yet and my cards are done.  Woot woot!

VLVS June Challenge

Love these colors for the VLVS challenge this month.  I participate in a monthly bizarre holidays ATC swap and decided to use this challenge as inspiration for one of my July ATCs.

Looking at the inspiration piece from the VLVS blog you can (hopefully) see how I used it above.

The dog in a dress image makes me chuckle.  Hope you have a great day and thanks for stopping by!

Please Take My Kids to Work...

Feeling a smidge guilty about this ATC but it did strike my weird sense of humor.  When my three kiddos were younger my husband worked at one of those cool start-up companies that had scooters and skateboards to get from place to place in the building.  They also had loaded fridges full of soft drinks and junk food.  It was a big treat for the kids to go into work with him and, quite frankly, in those days I was a stay-at-home mom and sometimes needed a few hours alone to regain my sanity.

There is a monthly swap series over at ATCsForAll with a bizarre/unusual holiday theme. I purposely looked for June 26th because it is my 'baby' girl's (turning 18 next month!) birthday. I thought it would be nice to have a little tribute ATC for her.  (Enter the reason I feel a smidge guilty about choosing this particular holiday.)

I admit, I tried to justify my choice with the thought that taking my children to the workplace could expand their knowledge of the various employment opportunities available to them in the future.  That's nice, isn't it?  And that's true...kinda.  Thankfully, I bequeathed to her, via genes or environmental factors, my odd and snarky sense of humor.  Just in case though, I don't think I'll share this particular bit of my creative genius with her this time.  ;)

I'm entering this in the Wicked Wednesday ribbon challenge (the 'road' is a ribbon.)

Happy arting.  Thanks for stopping by today.