Break the Rules... by Amanda Pink

Hi Everyone

Welcome to my weekly post as a Guest Designer here at That's Crafty!

Though I am a grungy girl at heart this week I am bringing you some colour, lots of colour! Its bold. its bright and kinda funky!

I cut a piece of mixed media paper to size (6x6 ins) and covered it with Dina Wakley collage paper using matte medium to adhere and seal. I then coloured the white areas of the design using both Dina Wakley Acrylic paints and Tim Holtz Distress paints. I pretty much 'freestyled' with my application of paint using both my finger and brush breaking all the rules of 'keeping within the lines' as I knew once the colour was dry I would rework the black areas of the design with black acrylic paint.  Don't know about you but at this stage it made me think of Liquorice Allsorts!

Using a white pen I then added some highlights and scribbly marks which really brought the painted design to life

and I couldn't resist adding a few paint splatters

The centre circle is a That's Crafty! MDF Round which I covered with another of Dina Wakley's collage papers. This time I kept the colours much lighter by watering down the paints and applying and blending with my finger. The script is highlighted with a white pen.

Dina's scribbled silhouette is stamped onto speciality stamping paper using Archival ink and a Stamping Platform

as are the words 'Break the Rules' which I very lightly distressed the edges of and mounted on to black cardstock.

The Stamping Platform enables you to repeat stamp to achieve a really dense black image that may otherwise be hard to achieve it you were using an acrylic block, especially so if you are troubled with dexterity/arthritic problems and lack in upper body strength.

All the elements were adhere in place and the panel was mounted onto a white and black card mount before finally being adhered to a panel of mountboard cut to size. A That's Crafty! MDF 8x8 square would be a great alternative to use instead of the mountboard.

Products used:
That's Crafty! MDF Surfaces . Rounds 2.5ins
Dina Wakley Collage Paper
Dina Wakley Stamps - Scribbled Silhouettes
Dina Wakley Acrylic Paints : Peacock, Magenta
Tim Holtz Distress Paints; Twisted Citron, Spiced Pumpkin
DecoArt Matte Medium
Archival ink: Jet black
White Card Stock
Black Card Stock
Ranger Speciality Stamping Paper
Mixed Media Paper
White Highlighter Pen
Tim Holtz Mini Snips
Heat Gun
Stamping Platform

I hope you have enjoyed your time here with me today and that maybe my funky art panel has offered you some creative inspiration.

Thanks for stopping by. 

Have a great week 

Take Care 

Amanda
ink-a-pink

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