PA challenge - Lucy's house

Hello, and welcome to another PA designer inspired project.  This week, I was completely WOWed by the very talented Lucy Edmondson's wooden house with coloured grunge paste and had to use some of her ideas on another project.  Not a house, as I didn't have time.. there was a Eurovision twitter party to get ready for last night!!

Anyhow, I did have one of those cute little papier mache books - I have had  it for absolutely ages.  Lucy showed us a neat trick for using stencils in small places, by using tissue paper... just brilliant. I used the larger of the two, (no point in setting too big a challenge for myself, eh?!)

I've gone for Dusty Teal and Amethyst as my main colours but followed Lucy's methods which you can see on the Paperartsy post

 this is the cover mark 1- I just stencilled paint without grunge paste on the tissue and glued it to the cover.. you'll see later I changed this

 the spine, with buttons painted in the same colours

I decided the cover looked too flat, so I laid the stencil over the painted tissue and added grunge paste mixed with Dusty Teal, and doodled some dots on with white pen (my Sharpie) I also stencilled the Secret Garden from the same stencil, mixed with Amethyst.

would have been more sensible to think about the back before I did the textured front, used Mini 44 and archival inks

and the inside, with my Lucy-stencilled grunge paste on tissue.  Cut the tissue to fit both sides, and voila!!  I am really pleased with how this came out, thanks so much Lucy!!

Entering this to the Paperartsy challenge here (and this IS my final one, I promise!) and to Hels' Sunday Stampers "Lily the PINK" challenge here