Clean and Simple

Sounds easy, no? But I must say I had to think a bit because usually I work messy and use lots of layers. I took inspiration from Dawn over at The Craft Barn and used texture paste in combination with a stencil from TheCraftersWorkshop (TCW327S) on black cardstock. 

I used the 4 images, but one didn't come out crisp (I think the stencil is a  bit thorn) so I discarded that one.

I used a 12x12cm crème metallic card as base, glued the 8x8cm square in the middle and cut a frame out of the same black cardstock. Repeated this for all 3 patterns.

Birthday calendar - April

It's already the first again, so time for this months birthday calendar

This is the step-by-step:

• take a random piece of scrapbookpaper (pattern/color doesn't really matter because most of it will be covered up anyway)

• apply a layer of gesso and add some dimension with texture paste and a stencil:

• then for the really fun part some drippage with dylusions spray ink

• add some stamping and some more stenciling, this time with some acrylic paint

I really like the page and don't want to cover any of it up with all the dates, so I'm thinking I will write the birthdays randomly on the page.

Thanks for stopping by and hopefully you got through the day without being fooled or tricked.