A sunbeam of the soul

Hello all!  Another quick sample post today from my latest stamp launch at PaperArtsy, and this time we're celebrating the third of the three sets, EAB14 The Happiness Edition.  I don't know about anyone else, but I'm experiencing the world as a fairly troubled, fractious place at the moment, so I wanted to add a little joy to the other side of the scales with this stamp set.

My colour palette for the Happiness edition was one that makes me happy... blues, greens, turquoises and yellows.  Yellow isn't that common around here at Words & Pictures (barring the occasional daisy or two), but I have to confess that it does give a lovely touch of warmth to my much-loved blue/green combination.

This trio of coasters combines some of the Happiness quotes with the glorious bubbly leaves of Courtney Franich's ECF06 set.

The leaves make me happy too, so it seemed like a good combination!















Just like the backgrounds for yesterday's The best thing you can do... tags, these started with some watery brayering.










I put blobs of Summer Sky, Aquamarine, Lawn and Haystack Fresco Finish paints on my craft mat, spritzed well with water, and brayered onto a piece of ivory white cardstock.

Any leftover paint is then available for extra splattering if required!











Once I had cut up the cardstock, I made sure one piece was the other way up, so that the brayered rainbow would be reversed for one coaster.















I applied Olive and Leaf Green Archival inks to the leaves and stamped them at nice jaunty angles.
















The quotes themselves are stamped in Olive Archival.















It's one of my all-time favourite stamping colours.














Regulars around here may have noticed I hardly ever stamp in black!
















There's a little bit of extra spatter in Cloud 9 (a lovely warm white) with maybe a touch of Cheesecake mixed in.










And I finished things off with some white pen doodled frames before mounting the coasters on some plain white card.  I hope this trio made you happy too... some warm sunshine colours and the last of the green leaves before they start to turn.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I'll be back with that promised autumn tag very soon - and what can I tell you?  If you thought Tree Poetry was a nice autumn tag, just wait until you see this one... it makes me extremely happy!

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso