May 31st Weekly Post

 Hello again!

Hope everyone is doing well.

This past week, Nature decided it was finally time for us to start Summer.

Temps have consistently risen, nights are becoming sultry.

Aside from the occasional blessing of a cool front, we won't have a break until Fall.

I'm thankful we lasted til almost June with pleasant weather.

They are saying we may get a few more relief fronts in June, so one can always hope!

😁 Heehee 😁

I'm guest hosting this coming week at Sunday Postcard Art and my chosen theme is FAVORITE QUOTE/SAYING. I have long loved the quote "We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own". But I was surprised to learn the author is some self-help author named Ben Sweetland. I've never heard of him. I thought for sure Ralph Waldo Emerson or even Zig Ziglar was the author, but no. Well, it just proves that brilliance is in all of us.

For the illustration, I used a Deep Red stamp called Courtyard Stairs. It stamped horribly uneven on the cold press watercolor card I used. So, I took that as a challenge to make it my own! I got out my Platinum Carbon Ink Pen and traced over the stamped lines, then got a bit bold and embellished it with some more. So at that point, it only sort of looked like the stamp, so I have really diverged somewhat from the original image. Then I got out my watercolors, Promarkers and colored pencils to fill it with color. I decided to make the stairs the "brightened path", so I used shimmering gold watercolor on top of yellow Promarker. I stamped the sentiment and then traced over it as well. I *think* that stamp came from Stamp Magick a long time ago. Anyway, I liked the result and will frame it to hang in our art gallery room at the new house.

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Honey and I celebrated our 39th wedding anniversary this weekend and this is the card I made him.

SU card base, Kraft card, DCWV designer paper, Impression Obsession and Amazon sentiment word dies, Amazon donut dies and gel penned sprinkles. Just a quick card using scraps and what was easy to access.

Here is the inside, created in PSE and printed out.

And the sketch I used.

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We are going out to eat tonight with our across-the-street neighbor friend couple, so it should be a fun evening!

Hope you have a fun rest of the weekend as well.

Thanks for stopping by.

Stay cool and hydrated!

XOX