Creative Time

Good morning.

I hope you are keeping well and safe in these uncertain times.

I am so very grateful to have a hobby that distracts me!!

I've been watching a few videos now that I have some time and I've been playing around with some new ideas and techniques.  That's how this card came to be.

Before that, I have to say if my picture looks a bit weird, it's because my camera hates purple.  No matter what I do, it will not photo purple and turns them into blue.  Well for just this time, I wanted purple and not blue! lol  I ended up having to take the picture with my tablet so this is what I got.  I love creating but the picture taking and the editing is truly my most disliked part of the whole process!

So here's what I did.

I wanted to create a card with a textural background.  I took a piece of heavy white cardstock and spread some white Gesso over it as though I was buttering a piece of bread.  Not too thick, but just enough to roughly cover the surface.  It dried so quickly as well because the layer was thin.  You don't need to get every last inch covered, just a rough skim coat.

When that was dry, I applied some acrylic paint using a brayer over the top using a light hand.  Before the paint was dry, I rubbed over it with a paper towel, removing some of the paint.

The Gesso will act as a resist leaving behind some white areas.  The background resembled a woodgrain which I love.

I made 2 panels at the same time.  Here is a picture of what they looked like after they were dry and before I cut them into card fronts.

Then it was time to add some interest. 

 I stenciled some circles using the Messy Dot Grid stencil from A Colorful Life Designs using some Peacock Feathers DOX ink, then added some black stamping randomly along the edges to help ground the design.

I placed the piece into my Misti and stamped the sentiment from Rubbernecker then glued the flowers onto the front and then onto a heavy white card base.

Thanks so very much for coming by and taking a look.

Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs

*Just use the code KarenFan10 to get a discount on stencils and masks.*

Supplies

Stamps- Live, Laugh, Love (Rubbernecker); Bitty Grunge (TH); Faded Type (TH)

Inks- Versafine, DOX

Paper- heavy white

Accessories and Tools- Messy Dot Grid stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); Gesso;

Acrylic paint (Dollar Store); Wildflowers (TH); Misti (My Sweet Petunia); 

paint palette knife; Speedball Brayer