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Hi Everyone

I'm back with you this Tuesday playing once again in my small, That's Crafty!, 3" x 5" greyboard art journal. This time my pages feature Carabelle Studio stamps designed by Kate Crane.

Here's What I Did:

I began by building my background colours by choosing a selection of That's Crafty! Multi Surface Paints and blending them onto the pages with a broad paint brush, I don't let each colour dry as I like the brush to blend together some of the colours.

For this project I chose the colours Teal, Bright Magenta, Light Blue and Yellow. 

Next stage was to add some stencilling using a That's Crafty! Dinky Stencil using the Light Blue paint and applied through the stencil using Cut & Dry Foam.

I then added further stencilling in yellow and teal on top using parts of a Carabelle Studio stencil.

Over that I stencilled the clouds from a That's Crafty! stencil using heavy gesso and when that was dry I added a little Broken China Distress Crayon.

Next was to add my stamped images using a selection of Kate Cranes stamps. To colour the house I stamped the house onto a scrap piece of white card using a stamping platform. Leaving the stamp and card in place on the stamping platform I added the same coloured paints that I had used for the background and then stamped the image again over the top of the paint. Using a red coloured pencil I coloured the hearts.

I then cut it out.

I painted some more scrap card with That's Crafty! paints and stamped the flowers onto it and cut out the flowers. I stamped the flowers directly onto my background and then pieced the flowers onto their stems. The stems and leaves were painted using Lime That's Crafty! paint.

To finish I added a lot of doodling using a white gel pen and went around the edges with a black fine liner pen.

My sentiment I found on the internet and typed out on my old typewriter and doodled around again using a black fineline pen.

Here's What I Used:

That's Crafty! White/Greyboard Journal 3" x 5"

That's Crafty! Multi Surface Paints 

That's Crafty! Dinky Stencil - TC003

Carabelle Studio Stencil - For the Love of Layers

Ranger Cut & Dry Foam

That's Crafty! 8"x 8" Stencil - Hearts & Clouds TC8045

Finnabair Heavy White Gesso

Carabelle Studio Stamp Set - Home Sweet Home by Kate Crane

White Card

Signo White Gel Pen

Uni Ball Black Fine Liner Pen

Tim Holtz Distress Crayon - Broken China 

That's Crafty! Multi Purpose Craft Adhesive

Wide Paint Brush

Type Writer

Have a fabulous creative week and I will see you all next Tuesday

Love

Amanda X