Hello!! My oh my, it's been quite the long time since I've blogged but it's time to blow the dust off and share up some creations again - wahoo!
Today's creation will give you a little insight as to what has been keeping busy over the past several months and let me tell you, it has been so worth it!
Meet Penelope, she is one of the Nigerian Dwarf goat kids we brought on to our little farm we started up this spring. Yes we started up a farm! Super exciting and a whole lotta work - phew. It only seemed appropriate one of my first creations after being away from my crafty space for what seemed like foreva' would be to showcase one of my farm cuties - showing off a cheesy grin too, ha!
I started constructing my little country scene by adding in some stamping using my ScrapFX stamps. The cloud stamps are hand carved ones I made using the Clouds and Raindrops stencil as a template and the flower stamps are the foam ones available in the store. The chipboard piece here is one of my favorites, it's a fairly new release and there are a whole bunch of pieces similar to this one but using different large words and smaller phrases below. The font is so fun and I love the perfect print below, don't you?
To create the background of the canvas I worked some layers and added my
various acrylic paints. I love being random and messy during this
stage. No real plan just slapping on the mediums. I also knew I wanted to use one of the little mini suns here but it just wasn't cutting it on it's own, worked out perfectly inserted in the paperclip sun though. Love it when I can seek out layering tidbits on my table like that. The leaves were also stamped from ScrapFX foam stamps and then colored with various shades of Neocolors, watered down to blend, then fussy cut to be added to the canvas.
Don't you just love Penelope's cheesy grin? She is such a little sweetheart! Definitely worth the time away but am so glad to be back. Still feel like I need to find my full creative again but it'll come. I've got more things to share and am slowly finding my way in to routines between 34 chickens, 5 goats, one of which is in milk so I milk twice a day, gardening galore to try and replace a good amount of my family's food, and oh did I mention piglets will be coming to the farm in November?? Ahahaha! I love this life and can't wait to share it with you through my art.
Take care dear friends, be blessed.
Wow, a farm, what an endeavor! Congrats to you and good luck with it! Such a beautiful canvas to share too! That goat is a cutie and you've made such a fun scene! Can't wait to read more about your farming adventures!
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