Destination Inspiration - Arriving at Terminal #3

Hello Everyone and Welcome

Its Amanda here hoping you'll join me on the third leg of this months Destination Inspiration. Before we set off lets just have another quick look inside the travel bag to remind ourselves of the contents :

Product: Sprays of Brushos

Technique: Gesso Resist

Colour: Blue

Substrate: Card

and now for the creativity.

I have made a card using one of my favourite Indigo Blu stamps as the focal image and creating a faux 'whitewashed' brick wall using the gesso resist technique . 

I actually made a few resist backgrounds to see how the technique worked and the results it gave and I guess it was during this creative time that I thought of the idea of trying to create a whitewash wall effect - why whitewashed walls should pop into my mind at this point when I was 'full on colour'  I have no idea?!!

So with the idea fresh in my mind here's what I did .
 I cut a piece of mixed media heavyweight paper to 6x4inches and embossed it using Tim Holtz brick wall embossing folder. Then using a dry piece of natural sponge I applied gesso onto the embossed brick wall panel
 and left to dry - doesn't take long .... 

.... when dry I then spritzed the panel with Distress Spray Stains and a touch of water to help distribute the pools of ink. At this stage you can see the gesso beginning to resist the ink as the inks are water based and one of the features of gesso is that it will resist water based products.

When dry I used a lightly water spritzed cloth and rubbed over the surface of the embossed panel to reveal the full effect of the gesso resist technique. Though I don't claim to be an expert with this technique I was happy with the result and continued to make a few more panels. 

 I chose this one to use on my card as I felt it had the closest resemblance to a whitewash brick wall due to its lighter tones and rough texture.

Now for the stamped focal image - 'Lost in Thought' by Indigo Blu. I've had this stamp for a while as it was a definite 'must have' for me when it was first released but shamefully it has remained un-inked until now.
I LOVE HER!
 She's inked onto white card stock using black Archival ink and painted using distress inks as watercolours. I even gave her some 'lippy' and painted her nails!

  I then fussy cut around her

and adhered her using dimensional glue against the wall on the finished card. For the shadow you can see around her I used pumice stone distress marker.

The quote, from Tim Holtz stamp set 'Warehouse District', is stamped onto white card stock with Black Soot distressed edges using black Archival ink  

Splatters of Stormy Sky and Black Soot distress paint on the brick wall and some gem topped hex nuts add some simple touches of detail to complete the card.

 Thank you for accompanying me today on the 3rd leg of this months Destination Inspiration. I hope both I and my fellow Creative Guides Astrid (Terminal #1) and Tracy (Terminal #2) have given you some inspiration to keep on creating. 

Be sure to stop by next Monday to see whats on offer at Terminal #4 ,the final stop for Mays Destination  Inspiration.

Our current challenge is 'Sew Special' and we welcome you to join in with us. There is still time as the challenge runs up until the beginning of June 2016.

Time now for me to go and pack the supplies back into the travel bag so I'll wish you all a great week ahead 

Take care 

Amanda
xxx