Artful Blooms

So, yesterday, Sue shared another beauty with us - a papier mache style hanging piece. (see here) using grunge paste, frescos and Lin Brown's gorgeous stamps.

Here is my version

 I had trouble with the photos - used a combination of normal electric light, daylight bulb and with and without flash...

This is the finished piece.

Instructions are more or less as Sue did.

 base - cut the diamonds from a cardboard box, tore some of the top layer back, added grunge paste.  Painted it all white, then ice blue then a watered down bora bora, wiping it back a bit with a babywipe to remove some colour and give a patchy look.

 Stencilled (bingo) in mud splat and slight bumping with nougat

 had a spray of claret mixed up.... it went everywhere except where I wanted... think it's a slightly dodgy nozzle on this bottle!!

the flowers are Lin Brown's - I meant to write down what I used...I think it was stone (if not, nougat) smoked paprika and squid ink applied to  the stamp with cut and dry foam.

For the leaves (these are my second attempt, I originally did them on white card with distress ink but it was SOOO the wrong green!!!) I used a mixture of sage and holly for the small leaves, and sage and south pacific for the big ones. These contrasted with the background much better, rather than clashing!!

I didn't want to copy the shape Sue used for her petals (though I loved her idea!) so I cut into each petal about 3 times to give frilly petals.  Bent them to provide some texture.

The Artful Blooms was stamped on a scrap of metal on card (really MUST remember to buy some more of this) and I swiped some paint (claret and south pacific) with my finger, wiping most of it off.