Don't Wake Up to be Ordinary

I have a few statements that I like to use and live by and "Don't Wake Up to be Ordinary" is my new favourite. Another favourite is "a year from now you will wish you started a year ago", that one had a great impact on my recent life change. The one that I live by everyday is "do unto others as you would have done unto you", sooo important. Anyway, creative time for Altair Art - this time I wanted to do something off the page and this new favourite statement seemed like a good match with a garlic cutting board thing I had found and put in the "future off the page" cupboard. I started by covering it with white gesso and then got out some Ranger Perfect Pearls and painted it blue and then I had a little play with my new Distress Oxides and got some groovy effects going on, but nothing that you will be able to see. I then smeared some texture paste over the top and using Altair Art papers I laid a yellow and white check to the inner backgr...