Destination Inspiration - Arriving at Terminal 1

Hello all, Alison here from Words and Pictures.  Thanks so much for joining me at the first stop at Destination Inspiration for 2017.  We're at Terminal 1 with a whole new bag full of goodies to play with, and here's what's in the luggage this month:

Substrate - Wood

Technique - Wrinkle Free Distress

Product - Crackle Paint/Paste/Glaze

Colour - Hues of Blue

And here's what I've cobbled together whilst waiting for the next stage of the journey...

I need to show you inside as well as out, though the contents of the travel bag are all involved in the exterior, as it happens.

I started with a small, simple, wooden diptych.

On the outside I used the DecoArt Chalky Finish paints and crackle.  Relic - a.k.a. dark grey...

... then Crackle Glaze - the one designed to work with the Chalky Finish paints, and eventually Everlasting - a.k.a. white - over the top.

On the inside I put just a coat of the Everlasting, and then blended Pumice Stone Distress Ink over the top to highlight the wood texture.

I left the crackling to do its business overnight so that it would be thoroughly dry, and then I put Stormy Sky and Chipped Sapphire onto my craft mat, with just a touch of Wilted Violet, and dipped and smooshed my diptych into the water-spritzed inks until I liked the look of it.

It's one of my all-time favourite techniques.  I love the random splotches and blotches...

... though of course it's not entirely random - you can encourage certain effects, just as you can manipulate where the colours go on the mat.

With the travel bag contents dealt with, I decided to keep the rest nice and simple.  I added some of the fabulous Tim Holtz wild grasses.

They're stamped in Versamark and embossed in Wow Bark powder.

And around the edges I blended on some Vintage Photo Distress Ink followed by a touch of the darker Ground Espresso.

Well, it wouldn't be very me to have blues without any browns, would it?

And on the inside it is, if anything, even simpler.  The grasses are there again, this time stamped in Potting Soil.

The texture of the wood means you get a roughness to the stamped image which gives it a nice rustic feel I think.

And the sentiment is one of my favourites too - a Tim Holtz stamp, taped so that I could stamp each half separately.

Again, I've used the Bark embossing powder to give it extra presence against the wooden background.

So that's my stop at Destination Inspiration.  I hope you'll come back next Monday to see who's waiting to meet you at Terminal 2.

And of course we'd love to see you Going Round In Circles for Brenda's challenge this month too.  Do come and play along if you can but, whatever you're up to, I hope you have fun.

Alison x