France Papillon Project #2 Take Time ....

"If you think we as design team members never have any project go kablooi, well, think again. That’s what happened with this canvas. That’s when Snowflake Fresco Paint or gesso is your best friend"!

I covered up the whole thing, then glued down some Tim Holtz Terminology Tissue Wrap using Multi Medium. I colourized it with Beach Hut Fresco which I applied using a baby wipe, to keep it even more translucent. 
 

I added some Pumpkin Soup and Inky Pool accents in the same way with a baby wipe.

Using a circle template, I applied Grunge Paste with a palette knife and left it to dry for half an hour.

While the GrungePaste was drying, I stamped HP1004EZ with embossing ink on black bazzil, then embossed it with copper embossing powder. I also dug out an acetate clock that I’ve had for so long it turned yellow and I don’t even remember what brand it is.

I grabbed my oil pastels: first I rubbed them over a waste scrap of punchinella and keeping the punchinella in place, I smeared the pastel out with my finger. 

 

Then I used my oilpastels to colourize the Grunge Paste. To create a color gradient, I select my colors and place them in the right order next to me. I scribble the surface with each one of them in the same order then blend them together with my finger again, taking care to regularly wipe my finger off to avoid creating a mess.

I added some ochre oil pastel shading in each circle to reflect the copper embossing and nailed my clock and ‘flowers’ in place with a rusty nail.

I placed the canvas in the frame which I colorized with Honey Dew Fresco paint and created a second frame with some rusty metal. This took quite some hammering! To glue it in place I used Matt Accents. The wording is from the C4 stamp set, stamped with Black Archival Ink on Smoothy White Stamping Card, on which I applied a bit of Vintage photo Distress Ink

 

Leandra says: Well I have no idea what 'kablooi' means, but I'm loving this project! The pastels worked beautifully on the Grunge Paste, but you must have had some blue fingers after rubbing all that lot in!

Gillian Says: I presume France had a "happy accident" .... I'm loving the whole transparent/ layered look to this project and the GP circles look fab.