Memories...

Can you believe it? Spring is here (lets hope)!!!! Put away the touques, mittens and winter jackets....lets hope mother nature doesn't make me a liar now! I can't even begin to explain how wonderful it has been to be able to play outside again. This weekend especially; we had Raydns  play-date (11 kids) in our front driveway with all the summer toys (chalk, bikes, quad, games and bubbles) , it was amazing!! Raydn had such a great time. I learned in the last week  though that my little man is a little puddle jumper...and a pro I must say. He was soaked head to toe because he would sit in the puddles..needless to say his outside attire now consists of rain pants, rubber boots and a rain jacket. What a kid!

On Thursday night I also had the "Year in Review Class" for March with the lovely Roxanne.  I must say the layout was amazing and there were some really cool techniques. We used Rangers color wash and boy oh boy is it a messy product. Ya stained fingers...not really great for the gel nails ;) Color wash reminds me of glimmer mist but without the glitter and it is more concentrated in colour. Such an amazing product though, we sprayed it on the corners of the paper and also on all the flowers. It gave the flowers a antiqued look, depending on how close you spray it, you could have concentrated areas or just by spraying water makes the colour bleed and lighter. When it dries it looks amazing. No 2 flowers looked the same. We also used a product called Mya Resist which was pretty cool. With this product you draw it on your paper, let it dry then spray over it (in this case we used color wash). After your paper is dry you rub off the mya resist and viola...you have the design in the colour of the paper below...pretty neat stuff!!
It just amazes me to how Roxanne comes up with these neat ideas.....pretty talented lady!!

Did you notice that these pictures weren't of Raydn....lol. There is a first for everything! These pictures were taken at Pierce lake and a lake way up North in the Canadian Shield (I can't remember the name of it though). Such a great feeling to sit on the fishing boat and watch the sunset....breathtaking!! The bottom picture (below) was of my first shore lunch...another great memory...ahhhh the taste of summer!

Below is the color wash sprayed over the mya resist. Very cool look!

Designed and created by Roxanne Olsen

Put together by Rhonda Witzke