A Julie Ann inspired box for Paperartsy...

This week saw my good twitter buddy Julie Ann announced as the latest Paperartsy Guest Designer - and boy did she come up trumps!  You can see her masterpiece here...  but this is my take on it, which I was inspired to try today now that my cold is finally starting to go... well, at least I don't feel so rough with it!

I started with a soap box that came from Mum's house.. and covered it with several layers of gesso before starting to add colour.

 there's mermaid, and then space cadet, then mixed a bit of both to blend, generally faffed with it .. sanded back, added a bit of French Roast in the sanded areas.

 then stencilled some grunge paste through the FAB bubbles stencil by Finnabair for Prima... loving it already!

 attempted some crackling round the bubbles... didn't crack particularly well (think the glaze was too thick)

 stamped some script over the crackle and round the sides (see later photo) then stencilled French Roast back through the stencilled bubbles (very tricky finding the right part of the stencil, having already cleaned the GP off!!

 time for embellies.... the leaf was cut by my friend Sam from the new Tim bigz die - it's an irredescent bronzey colour paper she used, just right...
the big flower is a Finnabair embellie, with a tad of Lake Wanaka brushed over and removed, and TG added, and the little one is a resin flower painted with Lake Wanaka and Space Cadet and TG'd

 added a stamped scroll and some dragonflies from my stash - painted them with Fresco but wiped most of it off, just left enough to give a key for the Ruby TG

Added some more little resin flowers in the left corner, also painted with Frescos and TG'd


This was a great, fun, project... I haven't decided what to do with  the inside of the box yet, so that may be for another day!

Entering the Paperartsy challenge here - check out some fab entries!