That's Crafty!: Choose Happy by Nikki Acton

We’d like to thank Nikki very much for all her fantastic projects while guesting on the blog for us in September. We’ve really enjoyed having you Nikki! :-)

Hi everyone, Nikki here with my final guest post. I have used more That’s Crafty! Surfaces today – 3 whiteboard ATC’s and a 4.5 x 9inch MDF panel to create a colourful and cheerful piece.

What I did

I started with some ATC’s which I cut to size out of card – in hindsight I could have worked straight onto the whiteboard but I wasn’t sure where this was heading when I started! I took three colours of Dylusions paint and randomly painted them. I stamped three Scribbly Birds in Archival ink.

Initially the yellow/blue was going to be a background but I liked how it looked inside the birds so I decided to paint around them using red/purple Dylusions paints. I blended the 2 colours together and added a little dry brushed blue in places to bring it together.

Next I stencilled some more yellow through the ‘Bubbly all Over’ Dinky stencil – using the smaller areas of bubbles. I added a little black Distress paint with my finger around the edges.

I also painted the outer border of the whiteboard ATC’s in black and mounted the painted cards onto them.

Next to the MDF panel – I used the same three colours to paint this – with the yellow in the middle, blending into green and finally blue around the edges. I then took the bubble stencil again and added a contrasting colour – this time using the larger bubbles.