Nature Love - Craft Stamper's Take It Make It Challenge - March

Hello and servus to all my readers and followers old and especially anew!

 
Time to invite you over to Craft Stamper's Take It Make It Challenge  - hosted by the lovely Trish Latimer - where this month's theme is

Stamping With Acrylic Blocs.

This means that you are to use them like you would use the Gelli Plate or any other surface you can apply colour to and then peel off a printed paper. 

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I played around for a while using various kinds of colours and found the results I got with using Distress stains the most inspiring for my creation. Of course the results with acrylic colours and a brayer will give more intense and controllable texture and structures, but I sometimes like to play with more "accidental techniques".

All I did was dab on various Distress stains  to a rather small acrylic blog,  place a piece of manila card over it, gently press it on and lift it up rather quickly. 

I also did some printing with quickly turning around the acrylic bloc and pressing it onto the laid out card...but then you have to be careful to avoid the colour dripping and running to one edge. But with little drops of Distress stains this worked very well. 

You can see the smudges this technique produced on this panel which I used as a center piece on my project:

I used Distress paints "brushed corduroy", "tea dye" and "tattered rose" for the background and "Rich cocoa" Memento archival ink to stamp the images. The lovely images are part of the wonderful "Nature Walk" stamp set from 7Dots Studio. 

And this is how my finished mixed media project looks like:

I gave the paper a lot of distress honestly, applying various Distress paints and smudges of white acrylic paint, torn washi tape and texture stamps from the same stamp set. 

The background paper I used had a somewhat pastel orange colour which I didn't like too much...so I added Distress stains "Vintage photo", "Tea dye" and "Brushed corduroy" to tone it down. The white acrylic paint smudges were of great help with blending in all the various parts and layers. 

I know this isn't a colour scheme you have already seen used by me but we all have to move on and set foot on yet unknown terrain, haven't we? 

I especially love the text panel I covered with washi tape and glued on a stamped and cut out "LOVE" quote. I had a great time at my desk smudging, tearing, stamping, printing and glueing. I hope to see you at the Take It Make It March challenge soon and can't wait what and how you will use the acrylic blocs to print with! 

Have fun!

Claudia x