March 4: I is for Ink/Color Mediums

Hello Stamplings!

And welcome, March! A month of hope and new beginnings and religious holidays and spring breaks and sometimes snowstorms! It's a lot for one little month and we all can admit, a lot more dramatic than Ms. February! 

Here at the Playhouse, a new month means a turnover of I.D.E.A.S.* and for this first Monday of the month, I am featuring inks/color mediums, specifically Lindy's Magical color powder. Lindy's is like Brushos, only schparkly!

Onefer

This is not the first thing I did with my Lindy's, but it's my favorite, so I'm putting it first. While I had the powders out, I did some smooching because I haven't done that in ages and I love how the little vases turned out. 

They looked great on a white card, but Hammy suggested I try black and then the whole crew swooned. After smooching and swooning, the only thing left to do was scoring, so we did a little of that to add a little Jenna Saykwa. I may add a sediment, but for now, I'm loving the simplicity.

Twin Twofer

I wanted to try something new this month and ages ago I heard that it was possible to paint images with powders using water and a paintbrush. I tried it and I have to say, it worked a treat!

I had a couple of stamped bathing babes in my stash from the last time I used the image, so I pulled them out to paint. 

Why am I showing both of them? I was curious, given my personality, about how the image painted with the Lindy's powders would compare to the same image painted with my Ziggies. I did simple painting on both, no shading.

Can you tell the difference? Because you can't see the schparkly from the Lindy's Magicals, they look very similar. Lindy's is on the left, Ziggies on the right. Or is it the other way round? Just kidding!

After wards, I put them through an embossing folder and for once, I'm sorry I did that ... at least with this particular e/f. Is it just me, or does it remind you of the designs that companies put on paper towels or the like. ('The like' being a euphemism for toilet paper.)

Never mind the e/f; this was a fun exercise and I tried something new! I have a few stamps and dies with a stained-glass look and I think they would be fun to paint with the Lindy's Magicals.

Christening

Hammy is very busy having a good time getting acquainted with the new little guy, who now has a name!

Thank you to everyone who suggested a name for him! Some of you thought it would be fun if the new buddy was a girl, so Hammy could have a girlfriend, but he went there, did that years ago while on vacation! As far as pets, hamsters don't get along like that. They are very solitary and if you do want to own two of them, it works best if they are the same gender. 

So I narrowed the names down to masculine names and added a few names that Hammy and I came up with. We ended up with names of English origin with an "an" in them, as a tribute to Annie. After about an hour staring at the same seven names, the little guy pipes up and says, "Why don't you ask my Mum?" Well, duh!

So I asked Annie and all of us were delighted when she picked STANLEY! It fits him!

*New Month of I.D.E.A.S.

Here is your calendar for March if you'd like to play along! Please let me know in your comment if you do play in any week, so I can pin your design to the Pinterest board for inspiration! 

Reminder: you do not need to use your NBUS to play with the I.D.E.A.S.schedule. 

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Enjoy your day! No, seriously, enjoy! LITS!* 

As always, thank you for coming by to visit the Playhouse and special thanks to you if you take the time to join as a follower! 

Mwah!

*Life is too short!
Vases linking to: Color Hues and Just Us Girls.