Hey... more circles for Paperartsy

The Hotpicks plate with the clocks was one of my favourites from the last Paperartsy release, and I had some fun on a canvas for the Circles challenge that closes tomorrow. I loved Ruth's stencilled circles from Friday's post,  although this is nothing like it, (apart from the stencilled circles!)

I had in fact already stencilled heavy gloss gel through a Memory Box stencil on a small canvas, and painted it..

 with Bougainvillea Fresco - I love this bright vibrant magenta pink!  The paint did dull the gloss of the gel down a little too much, so I carefully replaced the stencil and added another of gel over the circles to re-emphasise the gloss.


I stamped some of the blobby circles from EEV06 in plum archival
round the gel circles.

I had been playing with a  brayered tissue background and the column of clocks (HP1502) for another (secret!) project.. and had plenty left over.
I tore them out and glued them to the corners of my canvas, and then stamped the row of small circles from HP1504 in Bougainvillea fresco, round the whole canvas as a border

and then stamped the "hey wait for me" (HP1502) a single clock (HP1107 - the clockwork birds set) and the wings (ID09) on some more of my spare tissue and cut them out

I like the impression of the clock (time flying for real), calling out to the rest of the clocks, "hey wait for me.... "

Entering this to the Paperartsy circles challenge here

Paperartsy topic 16 - Circles

Morning (oops, afternoon...) all.  Just loving, once again, the topic at Paperartsy for the next fortnight - well only a week left (been busy doing something else that I can't share!)

Gabrielle's journal page with her circles floating across the page, really grabbed me, and I finally had time to interpret it..

I used a leftover Paua shell piece from the gels and mediums challenge - this is what it looked like

 Whilst the stencil I'd used had lots of circles in it, I didn't want to use it whole, so punched lots of circles from it. I only have 2 circle punches (that I could find)

 I matched a Fresco colour as closely as I could to the colours in the Paua piece - Marlin, with a bit of Old Gold and a tiny scrape of Antarctic to lighten it just a bit..

Stencilled some white circles across the page, and used some mini sequin waste to add a few more Marlin circles in some of them.  Went to town with more circles - two Sara Naumann stamps,  andthe Lin Brown flower centre dots

 It was looking a bit overkill, especially when I laid out my punched circles, but in for a penny... I scribbled some circles round some of the stencilled ones - using a black micro pen and a white sharpie..

and finally, used some of the final punched circles and stamped the letters on them.

Had fun with this, despite it not really coming out how it looked in my head... may be back with another one later!

Entering the Paperartsy circles challenge, here