Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

I guess I have succumbed to the fact that spring is

in full bloom. Early, but blooming none the less.

I seem to keep reaching for bright, girly colors to

use on my projects. It's like Mother Nature is sending

me subliminal messages or something. I wish she'd quit

doing that.

I do have to admit that when I saw the freebie image for

the Smeared and Smudged Freaky Freebie facebook challenge,

I was hit right away with this idea.  

I immediately knew I wanted to make her gas mask

into a watering can to water the blooms of the apocalypse.

I dotted the background  using Copics to look like falling ash, 

ala Silent Hill.  

This ended up way prettier than I had imagined, 

but it is nice to see what's in my head come to

fruition.

I'd like to enter this in the following challenges:

Left of Center - LOC Anything Goes

Shopping Our Stash - I Made This - make your own background

Marker Pop - Anything Goes #64

Monday Morning Challenge - Think Spring

Smeared Ink Facebook challenge - Freaky Freebie

Wicked Wednesday ATC challenge - Spring is in the Air 

Thanks for stopping by today.

Wednesday's child is full of ...

... poisonous gas and pirouettes. 

I never did care for that whole "Wednesday's child is full of woe" deal.
Since I was born on a Wednesday, I hated to think that my fate was sealed,
and I was doomed to walk the earth full of woe for all of my days, based solely
on the day of the week I was born. And yet, maybe I am rather woeful...
Whatevah!

I've kind of been on a corrugated cardboard kick lately, and I had a piece

already distressed and cut to the perfect ATC size lying around....

So I made an ornament or a hanging of sorts.

I used some new pearlized crackle paste, and some of my favorite mica flake medium.

I also added good ol' Stickles to the perimeter to match her glittery ensemble.

I like the contrast between all of the textures on this piece.

  Such a fun image!

I used the strange, yet delicate 'Ballerina' image from the 'Toxic Ballerinas' set.

She just adds more glittery texture and bizarre contrast to the entire piece.


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