Turn on the Light + TCP Tuesday Reminder

Hi friends! It's time for your friendly reminder about the TCP Tuesday challenge. The April challenge is "Share Hope" and you have through the end of the month to play along for a seriously cool prize!

Here are the challenge details...

Each month a new challenge is posted on The Cat’s Pajamas blog and Facebook page.

• To play along, upload your design to the Inlinkz link up on The Cat’s Pajamas blog
• The Cat’s Pajamas products are NOT required, but we do LOVE to see them!
• Winner is announced the first Tuesday of the following month and will receive a $50 gift voucher to The Cat's Pajamas store.

Last week I cleared out the last remnants of the Verve office (aside from my desk) to make room for two little boys to do their school work.  Our little one room school house is working pretty well.  In the process of moving things out, I relocated an entire cart filled with watercolor supplies back into my craft room.  Since I hadn't used my Caran d'Ache Neocolor II crayons in ages, I decided to dust them off and play.

I did a simple technique of scribbling onto watercolor paper, spritzing with water, and then smoothing out with a wet paint brush. After it had dried, I laid a stencil down and removed color with a wet wipe.  I kept the first card pretty simple, just adding the sentiment and arrow stamps from the Big Word Basics set.

For the second card I used the same technique, but tried layering two different stencils.  I matted the panel with black and stamped the Dumbledore quote from the Snapes Alive set. It seemed like a really fitting sentiment for these unsettling times. When I was pulling the set out, I noticed I had this little panda from the I'm Not Fat set colored and cut out, so decided to add him, tucking a little light bulb that I turned into a torch behind him for the light.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Click on over to the Cat Pack links on my sidebar to see what my other teamies are sharing today. Then create a little handmade kindness and link it up to the challenge.

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