Last Day of Kathy's 30 Day Coloring Challenge :
Kathy's gorgeous butterfly card + video
Have you ever been so mad you want to cry?
Well, I'm that mad.
The luck page has had a couple of days to dry
and I worked on coloring it in with my colored pencils like always,
but noticed when I took the eraser to a small mistake, oh, oh,
the paint disappeared and I wasn't erasing that hard. It crumbled into dust
and the white paper showed underneath. I continued anyway, got it all colored in,
and got it ready to attach it to my divider to mat it and the double-face tape
on one corner snagged the divider paper too early and you know,
you have to catch it quick before it gets bonded to the paper, so I went to roll it back
and put it down correctly, and wiped almost all the coloring off that corner.
If I had known that watercolor paint was going to crumble away like that I
would have used spray fixative before coloring it in with the pencils, however, I didn't
know and hadn't had that trouble before with my other cheapie watercolor paints
and therefore had to fix the smudged letters.
So then, I wasn't sure how fixative would work on waxy colored pencils,
so I decided to laminate
the page after I carefully matted the rest of the divider.
It got stuck in the laminator.
Now, mind you, this is my last coloring project for the challenge
and my last divider for my Documented Faith notebook
and would you believe what it says? It's almost laughable, but not quite.
I'm uploading it anyway to prove all what I say is true.
And by the way, I'm not recommending that "paint" to anyone,
especially not to kids or adults with allergies to dust or asthma, like me.
I bought that 24 cake count tray of watercolor chalk
in the fine art paint department of Hobby Lobby --
all I got to say is, if Hobby Lobby wants to continue selling it,
it should be sold in the kid's section with a warning label --
"Persons with allergies take note: This paint turns to dust when dry.
It is not a permanent coloring agent."
The end!
