In the depths of a grey and very chilly Winter, my thoughts turn to warmer times and I long for some colour which is how this sample I created for this week's One Day Special on Hocghanda came about. I love how nature always seems to reappear especially on sites where places have been abandoned and green shoots soon start to grow.

My chosen substrate for this is an MDF Chunkie which I assembled first using That's Crafty! Multi Purpose Glue. I then took the new mandala stencil and used this with texture paste to add partial patterning on the surface.

I then painted the surface with slightly watered down Green and Lime Multi Surface Paint followed by a little Green Satin ink.

I used the plain Craftyboard sheet to cut 3 strips which I cut with scissors to create old, distressed fence panels which I Then decorated using the Tree Bark stencil with texture paste.

Once the paste was dry, I painted my fence panels with watered down Multi Surface Paints using Chestnut Brown, Black, Grey, Orange and Green. When they were dry I gave then a rough brush with Acrylic Wax.

 

I stamped lots of sweet peas on smooth stamping paper with black ink and coloured them with Satin Inks and cut them out. I also stamped a few leaves from Melina's Tree and Leaf set on a scrap of inky paper and cut these out too.

I then assembled my Chunkie, gluing on the flowers to wind up the distressed fence panels and adding in a few leaves for colour contrast. I finished off with the text which I stamped on another inky scrap.

 

I hope you caught the shows with fab demos from the lovely Lou Sims but if not there's always rewind and worth a look to see the gorgeous new goodies in action.