Buzzing with Happy

Today, as part of the {ippity} Fabulous Feature, I decided to roll up my sleeves and get my hands dirty (literally) with a fun mixed media project.

The featured set is:

Quotes a'La Happy

I HAD to use bees. So, I grabbed a couple more {ippity} sets for the bees..."Bee Better Together" itty bitty and "Your Frendship-My Cup of Tea".

And to finish it off, I used some hand-dyed crinkle ribbon from 3 Girl Jam. I'm telling you...you HAVE to get some of this. Such a great assortment of colors.

This has so many layers that the canvas now has probably doubled in weight. It started a little pastel in color, then went dark...and ended bright and cheerful. Thank goodness, because how can one correlate HAPPY with anything other than bright "and cheerful".

I really just put my whole self in a project like this. When I paint kitschy stuff like this, I tend to use my hands just about as much as I do a brush...Whats worse, sometimes I smear by licking my finger and then smearing...or even far far worse...cleaning a finger before touching the canvas by sticking them in my mouth.

YIKES..I know.

It's a good thing the acrylics I use have few, if any, CL (caution labels) or CAprop65 warnings (cancer warning)....and NO LEAD. I'd be a dumb fool by now if that were the case!

But anyway, enough about that. I had to hum along while working on this. Well, last night anyway. I have been working on it over the few evenings, and finally...with a deadline approaching...just had to say "DONE" [for now].

I will probably add a little more bling. If I do, I will throw in another picture tomorrow. I just ran out of time!