Shine Brightly by Amanda Southern

Hi Everyone

For this weeks Tuesday post I have worked with a That's Crafty! MDF #10 tag 

I love working on MDF especially as it's a great surface to really throw everything at.

Here's What I Did:

I started with the MDF #10 tag and I wanted to give it a look of really distressed and worn paint, to do that I had to build up several layers of different coloured paints. The first layer of paint I laid down was Black paint then White paint and then the Teal paint. I left the paint to totally dry before the next stage. I then sanded back areas of the paint to reveal the colour beneath in places sanding right down to the MDF surface this was to make the paint look really distressed. Onto this surface, and using a Stamping Platform, I stamped several AALL & Create stamps in black Versafine ink to build up the background design. I then heat dried the ink, Versafine is quite a slow drying ink on a painted surface, but I have found gives the best impression. Once the stamping was dry I then sanded back the stamped images to make those look distressed as well.  I added some red marks of Christmas Red paint with an old credit card and added some red shading to some of the stamped circles using a Distress Crayon and blending the crayon with my finger. I also added and blended Vintage Photo Distress Crayon around the edges of the tag.

I added the stars by stamping them onto a piece of card that I had coloured roughly with a brayer using the same paints as I had for the tag. I added touches of red and white paint. To tone down the white paint on the stars and make them tone is with the tag I blended in some Vintage Photo Distress Crayon blending it all over with some water. I then added them to the tag with 3D silicone gel glue.

I added a Tim Holtz quote chip that I had sanded the edges of and distressed again using Vintage Photo Distress Crayon.

Here's What I Used: 

That's Crafty! Surfaces #10 MDF Tag Pack of 6

That's Crafty! Multi Surface Paints - Black, White, Christmas Red and Teal

AALL & Create Stamps: 

#60 Lacy Grafitti 

#61 Mandalion 

#80 Lined

Versafine Black Ink Pad

Tim Holtz Stamping Platform

Speedball Brayer

White Card

Distress Crayons - Candied Apple & Vintage Photo

3D Silicone Gel Glue

Sandpaper

Old Credit Card

Tim Holtz Quote Chip

Have a great week and I'll be back next Tuesday

Love

Amanda X