Bentley’s Dreams by Fliss Goodwin

Hi there, I have a rather girly tag to share this week as I’ve dug out my rather under used shades of pink and purple and challenged myself to do something with them. The end result was a very grungy background so a simple stamped image was all that I needed to pull it together.

Ingredients:

That’s Crafty! Surfaces White/Greyboard Tag – Size 10

That’s Crafty! Clear Stamp Set – Bentley by Donna Gray

That’s Crafty! Dinky Stencils – Long Hearts Background, Bubble Wrap Background

PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Acrylic Paints – shades of pink and purple

Archival Jet Black Ink

Watercolour Pencils

Mixed Media Paper

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Clippings Stickers

Bakers Twine

Recipe:

Prepare the tag by swiping on the shades of pink and purple acrylic paints with an old store card until the surface is covered. Work roughly horizontally first with the stronger shades, then vertically with a couple of toning lighter shades.

Use the hearts stencil with deep pink paint to add a pattern in a couple of areas then repeat with the bubble wrap stencil and purple paint in other areas. I then dry brushed on a little of the palest pink shade (Sherbet in my case) to knock back the stencilling a little.

I next stamped Bentley directly on the tag with black ink and again on mixed media paper. I then painted the image on the paper with the lilac acrylic paint, adding details with watercolour pencils. I then cut the image out, chopping off the whiskers and glued this over the image on the tag. This saves fiddly cutting out of the whiskers.

I finished off with a clipping sticker and some baker’s twine tied through the top.

Have a great weekend and see you next week.

Fliss x