PA Grunge Paste play

The fab people at Paperartsy have brought out some Grunge Paste and I had to have some... I've been wanting to get hold of some texture paste for stencilling for ages.  This can do so much more but I haven't had much time to try yet!  So I took one of the door hanging pieces (also by Paperartsy) and the leafy vine stencil.

 I left the hanging plain before applying the paste through the stencil.

You can also mix the paste with paint (this is Tinned Peas) which is what I did here at the top of the hanging.  I just put a little amount of paint on my craft mat and a little more of the GP and mixed the two with the palette knife I then applied it through the stencil with.

Then I decided to paint over the whole thing anyway, but it's nice to know how easy it is to do...!!

I used Vanilla, Tinned Peas, and Hyde Park, a little Beach Hut

knocking back with paper towel and baby wipe to mix and remove .. and adding more paint

i added some Zesty Zing too, round the leaves, again knocking it back to leave just a hint of yellow.

 I also used some Beach Hut round the edges and just a little French Roast to give the edges a bit of an aged shabby look, wiping most of it off.

Finally I added some Treasure Gold with my finger to the leaves
(this is White Fire) and along the groove at the edge.  It was getting a bit dark by this time, just got there without having to use flash!