I painted some pieces of canvas with both colours of reinkers, sprayed the inks with water, pressed the inky side of the canvas down onto my square of  mixed media paper and dried with a heat tool. This process was repeated numerous times to gradually build up layers of colour, inky drips and splotches. 

... and some textured stenciling using Tim Holtz Distress Texture Paste with AALL & Creates "Lotza Squares' stencil. 

Additonal extras were some white pen circles that I drew with the aid of That's Crafty! round Dinky stencil 'Bubble Circle', a few white pen marks and of course some of my much loved paint splatters!! (white). 

 

The background panel was adhered to a That's Crafty! white/greyboard panel cut down to size.  

The focal feature. 

This was the sum of a few parts.  

A That's Crafty! greyboard clock painted white.   

This framed a couple of greyboard circles adhered together painted white and crackled with Seth Apters Aladine Izink Crackled Textures. 

I applied the medium lightly so the crackles were only small. For larger crackles a thicker application would be necessary. 

The crackle circles served as an ideal resting spot for my stamped and embossed butterfly which is from Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous 'Moth Study' stamp set.  With 15 moths and buttterflies on the stamp set I was spoilt for choice selecting just one! 

Some wire antennae for the butterfly and a couple of hardware heads to embellish the cracked circle completed the focal feature. 

 

All that remained was the addition of a few words/quote courtesy of a Tim Holtz Small Talk sticker.

'Great Things'

'Take Time' 

Products Used: 

That's Crafty! White / Greyboard Panels 4.5" x 9" 

That's Crafty! Greyboard Small Clocks 

Mixed Media Paper

That's Crafty! Multi Surface Craft Adhesive

Tim Holtz Distress Texture Paste (currently o/s . Other texture pastes can be found here or here )

Seth Apter Izink Textures: Crackled

White Paint

Tim Holtz Distress Reinkers: Picked Raspberry(o/s), Prize Ribbon

Archival Ink: Jet Black, Cobalt Blue

Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Stamps: 'Moth Study' (CMS436)

AALL & Create Stamps: #338 Background Noise, #494 'X or O' 

AALL & Create stencil: #113 Lotza Squares 

That's Crafty! Round Dinky Stencil: Bubble Circle (TC126)

Tim Holtz Small Talk Stickers currently o/s 

Tim Holtz Hardware Heads 

White Pen

Water Spray Bottle 

Palette Knife

Heat Gun

Scissors

Paint Brush

Hope you've enjoy your time here today - thanks for taking the time to pop by . 

Have a great week creating 

Take Care

Amanda 

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(ink-a-pink)