Playing with Grunge Paste

My blog/twitter buddy Sam recently asked me if I'd played any more with the new Paperartsy Grunge Paste.  Today I had a chance to do just that.

I had a page in my Moleskin journal on which I'd painted off some 'spare' Eggplant fresco paint.  I took my Grunge Paste and using a palette knife, stirred it to loosen it, you get icing-type drippability and I duly dripped and draped the paste randomly over the page.

I added some fresco paint in Claret and a smidge of Beach Hut, partly over the grunge paste.. and added a bit of Snowflake white with some cut and dry foam.








Decided this didn't allow the texture of the grunge paste to show enough, so I added some more...

I wanted some stamping on the page too, so used the music score from the Eclectica set by Sara Naumann (ESN07)


This was really just an experiment with the paste, so it's not in my view a "proper" journal page, but I quite like it!!

But I wanted to do something else with the Grunge Paste too.  As you may have seen last time when I used it, you can colour the paste with the Fresco paints.  Here, I took a Maya Road scalloped frame, and mixed on the craft mat, some London Bus Fresco paint, with the grunge paste... I dolloped the resulting pink mixture over the frame, trying to clean the edges to allow the scallops to show (I can't ice cakes neatly either!!!) and then patted the palette knife into the paste to get some texture in the paste.

I went for the smaller tulip  stamp by Lin Brown  (ELB03) and the stalk, stamping it so the stem lines up under the tulip head...

For the tag, I used Fresco paint in Stone (this is a fabulous background colour, I love it!!) and dry brushed Hyde Park randomly (sparingly) over the top.