Chalky Flowers

Hello everyone, thanks so much for taking the time to stop by.

I've a tag for you today, using stamps from the Chalk It Up and Chalkboard Wisdom releases.

I started by applying texture paste through the Crafter's Workshop Cornflowers stencil to create the flowers.

And then I applied lots of dots of various Fresco paints and used rough brushstrokes to blend them onto the tag.

Once the paint was dry, I sanded back the flowers to reveal the white texture beneath.

I added the corner flourishes from the Chalk It Up plate, stamped first in white using the Prima Chalk Edger, and then overstamped in Peeled Paint Distress Ink.

I really like the ornate and slightly dimensional effect.

The sentiment is another of my original chalkboard experiments - Brilliant White Superfine Wow embossing powder on black card, with some extra chalkiness from the Chalk Edger and from a white pencil.  It's mounted on padded tape to give it a bit of a lift over the flowers.

The topper is crinkle ribbon dyed with Distress Stains - Peeled Paint and Bundled Sage, along with some Picket Fence, which is what gives it that lovely shabby opaque look.

And it's tied together with my black and white paper string combination - to tone in with that chalkboard sentiment.

I then distressed the whole thing with the paper distresser and layered it onto some Prima paper by Finnabair, leftover from her workshop, which I was lucky enough to attend recently.

Hope you like it... If you're inspired to play with your Artistic Outpost stamps, you've still time to enter your AO projects into the September Referral Program.  We love seeing what you've been creating.  Happy Crafting all!

Designer: Alison Bomber
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