If I had a Flower by Amanda Southern

Hi Everyone

I’ve been playing again with my favourite, That’s Crafty! MDF board
which is the 9” x 4.5” piece.

Here’s What I Did:

First thing to do is give the MDF a light coating of gesso, I do this using a piece of Cut and Dry Foam to avoid it not only going on to thick but also avoids brush strokes remaining. 

One that is dry I then blended, in stripes, 3 colours of Dylusions paints using a wide flat paint brush. Using 3 colours actually creates a finish of 5 colours as the colours blend beautifully where they overlap each other (lime into the teal and pink into the teal).

I then stamped onto the board using the flowers, the centre of the flowers come empty put you can stamp into them using an available coordinating stamp set, which I have done. I then painted out the background with black paint, I used PaperArtsy Little Black Dress paint for that as I wanted a totally matte finish. To finish the flowers I highlighted parts of the flowers using a white paint pen.

The last touch was to add the sentiment which I heat embossed, to ensure I got a crisp finish I first tap over the area with the anti -static bag before stamping and embossing it.

What I Used:

That’s Crafty! Surfaces MDF Panel - 9” x 4.5”

Gesso

Cut and Dry Foam

Dylusions Paints - Bubblegum Pink, Calypso Teal & Fresh Lime

Large Flat Paintbrush

Carabelle Studio Stamps - Flower Garden, Flower and Borders & Round and Round

Black Archival Ink Pad

PaperArtsy Fresco Paint – Little Black Dress

White Paint Pen – Dylusions or Posca or similar

Anti-Static Bag

Versamark Ink Pad

White Embossing Powder

Heat Gun

Thanks and see you all next Tuesday

Love

Amanda X