Walk the Plank

Hi Bloggers.

Had a great weekend with Kathryn - Shawn Mendes at the O2 on Friday night and then went to see Wicked on Saturday afternoon. Thankfully, we were in our hotel room watching a movie when the London Bridge attack happened. Very sad that we've been hit again.

Today, I'll be catching up with my web orders and prepping for next week.

Here's today's card -

The background is based on a Dyan Reaveley technique from her Guide to Art Journaling Book.

I started by waking up (ie spritzing with water) the red and the green in the Cosmic Shimmer Essentials Watercolour Palette. I painted them in stripes across a piece of Watercolour Card.

I placed the Heroic Mask on top on one side and spritzed with water. I turned the mask over and laid over the remainder of the background pressing it down. I removed the mask and blotted off the whole piece with Kitchen Roll. I then spritzed through a little of the Every Which Way Mask in several places using Phill Martin's Old Gold Mister.

I used 3 sizes of  container tops - I dipped them in Inky Midnight CS Mixed Media Paint and added them to my background as shown. I repeated with Perfect White CS Mixed Media Paint. I then added some lines of Black Paint using the side of a scraper and repeated with the White Paint.

I trimmed my background a little and matted onto Black Card and then Coconut White Card.

I stamped the 2 characters from the Woodware Ahoy Matey Stamp Set using Versafine Ink onto Watercolour Card. I coloured them using the Essentials Watercolour Palette and a Waterbrush. I cut them out using scissors and added them to my background using CE Mounting Cushion.

I stamped and coloured the parrot from the same set.

I added the scull & cross bones, stamped with versafine ink.

I stamped the sentiment onto Coconut White Card using Versafine Ink.I cut it out using Sue Wilson's Stitched Flags.

I painted a piece of Black Card with CS Graphite Shimmer Paint. Once dry, I cut out the anchor from Sue's Nautical Accessories Die Set and sanded it back to reveal the black core.

Not a quick card to make but lots of fun!

The winner of the card from Freebie Friday on 2nd June is .................................................

Barbara (comment left 16:14 June 2nd)

Please email me at juliawattscrafts@gmail.com with your address and I'll pop your card in the post.

Thanks for stopping by.

Julia.
www.juliawattscrafts.co.uk
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