Sorry my photography skills are so rubbish but you get the idea! I have had the MDF blanks for ages, I can't remember where I got them from. I covered them first with white Gesso then with a mixture of pink and lilac acrylic paint. I did the same on two small mount board plaques cause I figured it would be easier to stamp on them! When dry, I did the stamping on the mount board - for Freya's I used Clarity Stamps - Wee Folk Fairies and Meadow Grasses, re-stamping the flower heads on snippets of paper for the flower heads, colouring them in and sticking them on. On Millie's, the trees are Clarity - one of the stamp club stamps, I cannot remember where I found the branch and the owl is a free stamp that came with Craft Stamper magazine. The owl was stamped on a snippet of card, coloured in and glued to the mount board so it looks like its sitting on the branch.
Freya's butterflies were made using a Tim Holtz by Sizzix Strip die and snippets of card which I coloured with Distress Inks and the stars on both were cut from snippets of yellow card with a stars die. Millie's moon was made using a very old punch again from a snippet of yellow card. Their names were stamped on snippets of card painted with the same paints as the backgrounds. I used a Clarity alphabet set, then cut out by hand. I forgot to say that all of the stamping is done using Archival Ink which works well on acrylic paint and I used my Misti to get good coverage especially on the silhouettes. When everything was finished, I added several coats of gloss Mod Podge with some added glitter for sparkle. For all the items I glued on, I had previously used matt Mod Podge.
I would like to enter the following challenges:
Pixie's Snippets Challenge - Lots of the elements I have used are snippets!
Penny Black and More - Anything Goes.
Bizzy Becs - Anything Goes.
Try It On Tuesday - Letters or Numbers or Both - I am linking to this challenge a day after I did my blog post as Chrissie kindly let me know about the challenge today.
These are all fabulous challenges. definitely worth a peek!
Thank you again for visiting me and have a lovely weekend.
Take care. Christine xxx
