Take Time To……… by Amanda Southern

Hi Everyone

I have been creating again on one of the MDF substrates from That’s Crafty! and
again I have used the largest MDF tag.

Here’s what I did:

Starting with the large MDF tag I added texture paste through a section of the That’s Crafty! 8”x 8” clock stencil. When the paste was dry I began an experiment with Distress Oxides, I knew they worked well on dark card but wondered what they would look like added directly onto the MDF. I dragged some of the colours across my craft mat and spritzed with water, I then dragged the MDF through the Distress ink, dried with a heatgun and then dragged again and dried, this I repeated several times to build up the colour, and the oxidised effect. 

I then sanded back some of the texture paste to remove some of the colour. Over a darker surface I love how the oxidising stands out. I have added some Distress inks around the clock face to add some shade.

I have kept this quite simple in order to not cover up either the clock of the Distress Oxides and simply added a small bunch of flowers. The daisies were stamped and coloured with Distress Oxides using a water brush and fussy cut out and added to the tag.

I added the sentiment by stamping it out using a small alphabet stamp on some card that I had coloured with Distress Oxides and Distress Ink.

Here’s What I Used:

That’s Crafty! Surfaces MDF Tag #10

DecoArt Modelling Paste

That’s Crafty! 8ins x 8ins Cog Clock Stencil

Distress Oxides – Vintage Photo, Walnut stain, Cracked Pistachio, Broken China

Distress Ink – Vintage photo, Walnut Stain

Sanding Block

Tim Holtz – ‘Flower Garden’ Stamp Set

Water Brush

Tiny alphabet stamp set from my stash

Hope you like it and I’ll see you next Tuesday

Love

Amanda X