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Saturday 2 August 2008

Monthly Challenge

Its time again for the monthly challenge, where did July go? For August, because I love getting messy, I'm challenging you to use paint in your crafting. Paint a background for your layout, card or atc, paint journalling strips on a photo, use paint to alter your embelishments. I'd love to see the ideas you all come up with.

For the base of my layout I used a sheet of textured cardstock from the March 07 Personal Shopper kit. I then used a sheet of paper from the lucky dip pack and hand cut scallops to make a frame. I edged the scallops with acrylic paint to make them stand out from the background.
I then marked the position of my photo and painted a mat for it with more acrylic paint. I also braved painting my title by hand too.
I created a flower embelishment from some American Crafts ribbon by sewing along one side and drawing the thread tight to create a kind of rosette.

You have until the end of the month to enter and the prize is a fab kit of yummy stuff from the shop and a guest design team spot for October ... we work months ahead here you know! LOL.

5 comments:

Beverley Todd said...

Love your paint frame ... & the pp border! Great stuff! Looking forward to seeing all the painty projects arrive in our inbox/blog comments

Ruth said...

Excellent! Ireally need to try out paint more, not that brave though! Your title looks stunning!

V Colbourne said...

Love the paint idea- it still frightens me to use it, but I did in a small quantity. I've finished mine now as I have finals coming up and a vacation....woot woot!

http://newfienes.blogspot.com/2008/08/buds.html

jay670120 said...

i love using paint and bubble wrap its like my school days all over again . Go on try it its fun and every scrapper has bubble wrap !!!

Bibi said...

Hi - here's my paint LO http://bibscrap.blogspot.com/2008/08/just-little-rain.html
-Bibiana