Funky Flowers by Amanda Southern

Hi Everyone

If you are regular followers of this blog you will have already seen posts from other members of the design team using many of the new That’s Crafty! products that launched on Hochanda TV last Friday. You can currently still catch the 2 shows aired last Friday using the Rewind facility on Hochanda’s website, 

https://www.hochanda.com/Cinemas/16881/2017-06-16/08/Thats-Crafty

and

https://www.hochanda.com/Cinemas/16887/2017-06-16/14/Thats-Crafty

That’s Crafty! have launched a fabulous range of grey board products and the Gigantags in MDF and grey/whiteboard. My make for you this weeks uses the MDF Gigantag and the greyboard Funky Flowers.

These GiganTAGS are just that, Gigantic!!!! Measuring 7.5” x 15”, see I told you they were huge.

Here’s What I Did:

The first thing I did was cover the MDF tag with a light coating of gesso, That’s Crafty! also have just launched their own gesso in black and white, this started with a coat of white gesso. 

I then wanted to create quite a funky background to work with the feel of the funky flowers so created a marble swirled paint effect background. 

I started by pouring cheap bottled water based paint (I think they are kids ones) in large pools onto the tag. You would normally do this pouring technique with acrylic fluid paints and pouring mediums but this was just me experimenting. The water based paint has a very dull finish so to add some sparkle I poured in some of the new shimmer paint in purple again launched last Friday by That’s Crafty! This paint has a wonderful shimmer finish which sadly the photo doesn’t show up. The paints have all been swirled together using a cocktail stick and then left to dry, the drying took 3 days.

Hopefully you can see the purple shimmer better here before I covered it up.

I then painted a selection of the funky flower shapes, including the waste parts which I painted in contrasting colours, the stems were coloured black and white which adds to the funky look I think. 

I added one of the greyboard butterflies that I also gave my paint swirl treatment. I added a sentiment to my tag which is from Lynne’s Affirmations Set 2, stamped each word cut out and added to the tag.

Here’s What I Used:

That’s Crafty! Surfaces MDF GiganTag

White Gesso

Coloured paints from my stash

That’s Crafty! Shimmer Paint – Purple

That’s Crafty! Bits & Pieces Greyboard Large Funky Flowers 2

That’s Crafty! Bits & Pieces Greyboard Large Butterflies

Black and White Posca Paint Pens

That’s Crafty! Stamp Set – Lynne’s Affirmations Set 2

Black Archival Ink Pad

White Card

Cocktail Stick

I hope you liked it and that you’ll check out the rest of the new launches on the website, there are some fabulous new things that you’ll not be able to live without!!

Until next time

Love

Amanda X