Playing with stencils and mixed media

A tutorial for you today - a big background to be cut up in several pieces - 7 to be precise (5 cards, 2 ATC's )

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Start on a larger piece of paper (I used a piece slightly bigger than A4), and adhere some book paper randomly onto the page. 

Scribble some color onto it with watercolor crayons.

Paint over it with watered-down gesso to blend the colors. Start with one color, clean the brush and start on another color - otherwise some of it will turn into mud!

At this stage I decided to take most of the color off with a damb cloth, and scraped gesso over the background with an old creditcard. (This is called trial and error, lol).

Now add some white structure paste randomly over several stencils... I chose background ones.

Cut the background into several useful pieces. 

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Tap some Brusho powder onto the card background, spray with water and leave to dry. Repeat this with a second color (the red is Bistre). 

Add some stamping and a stamped image.  

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 A second card I've finished, with fish. I did this with the same process as the first card, I used brown Brusho (yes, it's got all these colors in it!). 

You can still see the original background color in places. 

This post as 
The Crafter’s Workshop Design Team Member

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STENCILS USED: 
Of course The Crafter’s Workshop provided me with some product to create this project, as I am in their design team.
LOVE these stencils!

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