2016 #10 Impress {by Gabrielle Price}

 2016 Topic 10: Doodles

Hi everyone Gabrielle from Crafty Thoughts here.

Tonight I'd like to share with you this evening with a post about first attempts at doodling.

I am not a huge doodler outside of boring meetings at work (!) and so I wanted it to become a background to my main image rather than be the main feature.

Step One: On a piece of board I used palette knife and 'painted' an uneven layer of Chalk.

Step Two: Then I added a little Beach Hut and then a little Tangerine Twist

Step Three: As I wanted the doodling to go behind the main image I stamped the image (isn't he adorable?!) and then, using the stencil PS018, added the boxes making sure I didn't draw over the image.

PS018

Step Four: It is at this point you could make the decision if you want to doodle INSIDE or OUTSIDE the boxes. I decided to draw inside but if you are more experienced than me then you could be braver and do the outside! Using a Berol Handwriting pen I doodled in the boxes. 

Step Five: The reason I used the Berol pen is that I knew it would soften when I added a watercolour pencil shadow.

Step Six: The final touch was to add a frame. I made the frame the same way as the board, added more stamps from the same set and the added a layer of Chalk paint to knock it back a little and bring the main image to the fore. A little Treasure Gold and a Barn Star from the PaperArtsy stand at Ally Pally and it was finished!

I really like the shadow as it makes the main image stand out:

I think I shall explore more doodling patterns and how to do them but I hope that this shows you that you really don't have to be an expert to have a go!

Thank you for stopping by - Gabrielle x (@freyatom)

For all us beginner doodlers this was a great idea to incorporate the stencil to allow you to explore doodling further Gabrielle.  Thanks for sharing your doodling debut with us. ~Gillian

We would love to see how you interpret this Doodles topic by linking what you make to our 2016 Challenge #10: Doodles, on this page HERE.

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All links go in the draw to win a £50 voucher to spend on products of your choice from the PaperArtsy online store. The Doodles link will close 17:00 (London Time) Sunday, May 29th 2016. The winner will be announced 2 hours later at 19:00.