Borrowing a little bit of Lin Brown magic

Yesterday Lin Brown has been guesting at Paperartsy with a 10th birthday project that was just fabulous, but I didn't get time to complete it before the noon deadline for last week's challenges. Today, Leandra shared a video teaching us (reminding some of us who'd forgotten) how to line up their grunge flower die with the matching stamps so you get perfectly stamped images on the die cuts (yeah, right!!) However, I had a go and after I lined up all the appropriate stamps and marked off the notches on the dies, I was set to have a little play...

Following Lin's post yesterday, I cut an arch and covered it with grunge paste, then painted it with Fresco paint - it's not as red in real life - with cinnamon and blood orange, then brushed some Renaissance Treasure Gold over the high spots.

The Lynne Perella stamp is stamped on a piece of cotton and painted with Frescos from behind mostly, though some touches from the front.

The flowers are die cut and painted with Fresco's as in Leandra's video and Lin's demo's at art shows.

The leaf is one of Lin's chip pieces, painted with a mix of Hey Pesto and Limelight Fresco, then stamped with a Paperartsy Ink and the Dog background script (BG6)

Think I used Mermaid for the blue and Eggplant round the edges. The middle was Haystack.

 underneath the bottom flower is a fabric one, die cut from some heavy cream fabric I picked up in a John Lewis sale (and I have no idea what it is!)

But the lining up of the notches works (unless you trimmed your own stamps, so I agree with Leandra in the video, it really does help if you buy ready mounted stamps for this technique!!)

and painted with Fresco's to match the first flower (Smoked Paprika and Haystack)

We've been spoilt with blog posts today from Paperartsy - 4 in total, we've seen 3, one more to go, and it's from the amazing Darcy Wilkinson again, so anything could happen...