Destination Inspiration June Recipe # 3

Hello all, Astrid  here with the next Destination Inspiration of the month.
I hope you have enjoyed the projects my amazing team mates created on the previous Mondays.
Just as a little reminder, - our "recipe" this month is as follows:

Product: Any Tattered Die

Technique: Layering Stencil : Texture Paste

Colour: Walnut Stain

Substrate: Watercolour Paper.

I made a large 8 x 8" card, using a 7 x 7" piece of Ranger Watercolour paper as my main substrate.

I started by adding some Wendy Vecchi Crackle Texture Paste through Tim's Mesh Layering Stencil.

I did this quite randomly, just making sure there was some texture on each side.

After the texture paste had dried and had done it's crackling bit, I started to add colour, using Cracked Pistachio Distress Ink and a Blending Tool. I spritzt with water so the ink would start to run into the cracks a bit. I also added several strips of Tissue Tape for interest.

I added more colour using Mermaid Lagoon, again spritzing with loads of water to get a sort of water colour effect. Fresh and new ink pads do this beautifully and I loved the effect, however the colour was too bright for me, so I decided to tone it all down a bit with Picket Fence and Antique Linen Distress Paints. I also added quite a lot of Walnut Stain, both the ink and the spray, doing more spritzing with water to make the colours blend.

As you can see, I managed to get some smudges also, but that did not bother me too much as I knew they would be covered over. 

Next I gathered my embellishments. 

I made some flowers using both the Tattered Florals die and the Tattered Flower Garland die and followed the wonderful tutorial Jennie has on her blog.

I also cut a clock from packaging material (corrugated card)  using the Weathered Clock die. I covered it with Picket Fence Distress Crackle Paint and then edged it with Walnut Stain. I then layered it all up together as you can see in the photo below.

A photo from the Photo Booth collection was added along with a few scraps of Remnant Rubs

To finish it all off I did some back ground stamping, using a text stamp by Finnabair, I also added a little banner cut with the Tattered Banners die with a rub on and some rusty wire. 

A butterfly stamped and cut with the French Flight stamps and matching dies was added to the clock still to balance the overall design of the card.

I matted and layered the water colour paper layer and then adhered it to a 8 x 8 card blank and that was pretty much it.

Don't forget to come back next week for the final Destination Inspiration using this month's recipe, and there is also still plenty of time to play in our Celebration themed challenge.

Thanks for visiting our blog

xxxxx

Astrid