Destination Inspiration - Arriving at Terminal 2

Welcome aboard fellow travellers!  Anne here to welcome you to Terminal 2

of our Destination Inspiration Journey for April, here are the contents of our 

travel bag:

Product:  Gesso

Technique:  Crackle

Colour:  Spring Green

Substrate:  Kraft

I decided to create another card for my birthday box!

I started by gathering up all my supplies.

The flowers were die cut using Tim Holtz Wildflower thinlits and the

corrugated Kraft was die cut using the Mixed Media thinlits.  The card
base is Kraft card, both pieces of card were edged with Walnut Stain
Distress Ink.

I gave the wildflowers a good coat of DecoArt Gesso to give some 'tooth'
for my next layer.  I left them to dry naturally.

I painted the white card base with a mix of Distress Paint in Twisted Citron

and Picket Fence to give a 'Spring Green' colour.  Once dry, the edges were distressed.

For the 'crackled' element, I used the new Tim Holtz Collage Medium - Crazing
as I wanted quite subtle crackles on my tiny wildflowers.  I used a thin coat on
the stems and applied it much thicker on the flower parts.

Once the crackle was dry, I applied Distress Crayons in Twisted Citron and Picked

Raspberry.  I used my fingers to apply the crayon and then smoothed it out with a
nearly dry baby wipe (a tip picked up from Paula Cheney).  Having the Crazing
Collage Medium there made it so easy to apply the crayons.

I hope you can see the subtle crackles in this photo.

My final element was the ribbon, which I dyed using Distress Spray Stain in

Twisted Citron.  I scrunched it up, whilst drying it with my heat tool.

Here is the bow in place.  I really love how the Distress Paint, the Distress Spray
Stains and Crayons work beautifully together.

Thanks so much for travelling along on this leg of the journey.  I do hope you 

will come back again next Monday to see what our next Creative Guide does 

with the contents of the travel bag!

Our current challenge - Spring is in the Air, can be found here, I hope you

will find time to join in the fun.

Hugs, Anne xx