2015 Theme 6: Grunge Paste
Hello
everyone! Kate Yetter (http://scrapyardthe.wordpress.com) from The Scrap Yard joining you here this
evening. I will be sharing a project focused around Grunge Paste. I love using texture in the backgrounds of my
projects and grunge paste is one of my favorite tools to achieve the perfect
background. Tonight I am sharing a step by step on a card using grunge paste as
well as the fabulous new Eclectica stamps.
Step One: I gathered my supplies and a piece of 4x8 cardstock
folded in half to be my card base.
Step Two: To match my color scheme, I colored my Grunge Paste
by mixing a small amount of Fresco Finish Orchid Paint with Grunge Paste using
a palette knife.
Step
Three: To frame out my card, I cut a piece of recycled embellishment packaging slightly
smaller than the card base and glued it to my background. Using a stencil and
palette knife I applied the colored Grunge Paste over top.
Step
Four: After allowing the Grunge Paste to dry a few minutes but not completely,
I sprayed a clean, script stamp with water and lightly pressed it into the
paste. Wash your stamp immediately to prevent the paste from drying on the
stamp.
Step
Five: Once the Grunge Paste is completely dry, I used a palette knife to apply
a small amount of gesso over the background, including some of the area with
Grunge Paste. Once the gesso was dry, I added some Distress Paint and sprayed
it with water so it would run down the card creating a watercolor effect.
Step
Six: I stamped a little in the background using Sepia colored ink. The
background is now complete and ready to be embellished. I stamped the flower
ELB16 onto patterned paper several times and cut out each once. Liquid Pearls was
added to the flowers before layering and gluing the petals together.
ELB16
I
hope you are encouraged to go all out on your backgrounds, whether it is an art
journal, altered item or a card. I never tire of using Grunge Paste as it
creates a whole new look depending on the stencil or color paste that you use.
Be creative. I think next time I would like to try using Grunge Paste for
texture on my flowers. I am not much of a card maker as I prefer art journaling
but I really enjoyed playing around on this card. I hope you decide to
experiment a little with Grunge Paste in your backgrounds and get out of your
comfort zone to create something amazing.
Kate
Yetter
The textured background makes the central "bloom" images pop, love the soft/watered down colours and the added highlight of the Liquid Pearls to the flowers, another versatile use of Grunge Paste. Thanks Kate for sharing.
We
would love you to join in with challenge #6: Grunge Paste If you are
inspired by any of our guests who blog with us over the fortnight, then
please join in and link up your creativity HERE.
NB.
you will get 3 weeks to participate in this challenge, as we will
interrupt the usual schedule for our 3UP week which starts April 5th.
All
links go in the draw to win a voucher to spend on products of your
choice from the PaperArtsy online store. The Grunge Paste link will
close 17:00 (London Time) Sunday, April 12th, winner will be announced 2
hours later at 19:00.