Hi Everyone

This weeks make came about as I was sorting out my craftroom. I am rather partial to plastic storage boxes and organising all my stash into these said plastic storage boxes. I am very OCD about this and all the boxes need to match, neat straight lines when they are all stacked on their shelves which also match (I think that's the retailer coming out in me, my day job). It's even worse if I find a new box that I think is better than what I currently have as I end up changing them all, this is one of those such occasions. I was moving my collection of That's Crafty! Bits & Pieces greyboard sheets to their new box and I came across the Funky Flower collection, which were one of the first in the range that That's Crafty! released, I had forgotten how fabulous these are and just had to use one for my make this week. 

Here's What I Did:

First thing was to make my background, I had yet to play with a recent purchase of this new stencil from Stencil Girl and I thought that it's modern look would work well with the funky flower that I had chosen to use. I took a piece of mixed media card and randomly blended on several of my favourite colours of Distress Ink using an ink blending tool, again these inks are something I haven't used for a while as we all seem to be using the Distress Oxides at the moment. Once the ink was dry on the card I lay on the stencil and stencilled through with That's Crafty! 3D Gloss Gel Medium. Don't do what I did when using this and stir it vigorously as it will add bubbles to it which you might notice in the finished piece, I tell myself that it adds to the look!!!! I left this several hours to dry naturally. Once it was fully dry I then blended black Distress ink all over the piece to block out any of the colour that surrounded the stencilled gel which adds as a resist. When the ink was dry I buffed up the gel to remove any traces of the Distress ink. It is really shiny with raised dimension that unfortunately you can't see well on the photo.