Destination Inspiration - Arriving at Terminal #4

Hello Everyone
Amanda here and I'd like to welcome you to travel with me today on the penultimate leg of this months Destination Inspiration 

Here's a quick reminder of the contents of the travel bag

Product- Gesso
Technique- Crackle
Colour- Spring Green
Substrate - Kraft card   

Yes, as always there's only a few supplies but I love to travel light so lets hop on board and continue the journey.

I have chosen to make a card as its something I haven't made in a while but I can also see this card working as a piece of wall art.

I began with the background and after adhering some torn tissue tape to a piece of cream card cut to size I added colour using Tim Holtz Wrinkle Free distress technique and a few distress inks in 'Spring Green' colours - Shabby Shutters, Peeled Paint, Twisted Citron and  Brushed Corduroy. 
Once happy , I then blended in more colour using the blending tool and Twisted Citron distress ink 

Next came the stamping and stencilling. I used a selection of stamps and stencils, stamping in both Fern Green and Coffee Archival Ink and stencilling in Brushed Corduroy, Peeled Paint and Shabby Shutters distress ink .

I also applied Paper Artsy Grunge paste through Tim Holtz Harlequin stencil to the top left and bottom right of the background . Once the paste was dry I repositioned the stencil and using a dry brush painted the stenciling using Walnut stain distress paint . 

Now it was time to introduce the Gesso. Using my finger picking up a little white Gesso I caught the surface of the background in quite a 'free and 'loose' way ensuring I caught the textured harlequin stencilling as I worked. I do like the effect and appearance Gesso creates when applied like this.

With my much loved splatter brush I added some Gesso splats and a few Gesso circles created with bottle tops. 

I used Tim Holtz  Distress Crayons to darken the edges of the background panel and enhance the textured stencilling, smudging as and where needed. Love the shadow the smudging created around the harlequins!

I adhered the finished panel to a white and brown card stock mount before adhering to a Kraft card base. With the background finished and mounted I moved onto the elements and this is where I introduced the crackle. I die cut a circle, primed it with Gesso, painted it with Walnut Stain distress Paint snd crackled it using Finnabair's Platinum Crackle paste . Once air dried (overnight) I smudged distress crayons over the surface with my finger to enhance the cracks and give it a more grungy look .

I adhered a book plate to the cracked disc placing a word sticker in the window and adhering two green gem dots as faux fasteners. (photo to follow) .

The wood grain embossed strip is one I found in my stash that I'd coloured using distress crayons and the narrow corrugated strip again was found among my off- cuts and distress crayons used to add a touch of 'Spring Green'. 

Now it was just a matter of playing around with all the elements until I was happy with the composition and adhered them in place.

Oops nearly forgot , I added a couple of Ideology game spinners and hitch fasteners to two of the card corners

and my card is complete.

 Thank you for accompanying me on the 4th leg of Aprils Destination Inspiration. I hope I and my fellow creative guides, Debs ( terminal 1), Anne ( terminal 2) and Astrid (terminal 3)  have inspired you to go and have fun creating.  Don't forget to stop by again next Monday to see the final Destination Inspiration post this month
and our current Challenge 'Spring is in the Air'  can be found here

Hope you all have a great week 

Happy Crafting 

Amanda x