I worked on white card that I later mounted onto a panel of That's Crafty! greyboard. It was the leftover piece from last weeks project.

I created with a stamp and paints. 

The stamp I chose was a Carabelle Studios Art printing plate (letters) and the paints were randomly selected from my stash. I simply went with whatever my eye and hand went to first which were 2 PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Acrylic paints (China, Steel Grey) and one Dina Wakley Heavy Body Acrylic Paint (Eggplant). 

The art printing plate is actually designed to be used with a gel plate but as I'd limited myself to the use of only one tool and I'd already used a paper trimmer to cut my card to size I couldn't use a gel plate.

So I hand stamped with the plate instead. I stamped repeatedly with each of the three colours of paint, one at a time, finishing with black. This built up layers of colour and stamped detail.

Heres a few close ups

So that covered the one stamp, one medium, three colours part of my challenge, now it was time for the elements/ embellishments part. My desk had quite a few of those lying around but what exactly they were and whether they would work with my background remained to be seen!

I guess I got lucky as I think on the whole they did! 

The 'bits and pieces' I used to create the focal feature were some die cuts (Seth Apters/ Spellbinder dies) , some die cut circles, a circle embellishment and a That's Crafty! Greyboard clock hand. 

The circle embellishment was created by stamping into a triple embossed painted circle using just the circle part of one of PaperArtsy Mini stamps (EM52) designed by Seth Apter. It was actually blue so I simply painted it with black acrylic paint and then caught the raised ridges with white paint. 

I also came across a couple of 'words' which I added to the top left....

...and bottom right of the panel.

Ok, you may not think the words 'Creative Freedom' are the 'perfect fit' given that I limited the amount of products and tools I used but I actually found that creating with fewer products and tools was (for me) quite liberating and I found I was still able to create freely inspite of the limitations.

Why not have a go at setting yourself your own creative challenge or maybe get a friend or family member to set one for you. I'm sure you'll have fun. 

Take care and stay safe 

Amanda

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