Sunday Stamper: Play Misty for me.

I can't tell you all how honoured I am to be asked to be a guest setter on Sunday Stamper! I just don't think I have been doing this well or long enough but Hels has been so supportive. There was I getting glorioulsy inky at her workshop last week at the Stamp Attic when I said 'There's an idea for the Sunday Stamper Hels', as I misted colorwash over everything in sight - and the next thing I know there is a pile of tries in the bin, the craft room is awash with mists and somehow I managed this!

I have been making a lot of tags lately, so I thought I would turn the Sunday Stamper challenge into bunting to spell my blog name using a different technique every Sunday. So here is the first one (hence the B, incase you were wondering if I had gone Barmy or Batty or Berserk! I used some scalloped bunting shapes and backed one with a triangle of paper from the daisy’s morroccan floral range. The challenge is to use something you MIST or spray, be it ink or paint or cosmic shimmer or anything else you can think of as long as it comes out in a mist, plus a piece of stamping. The misting part of my piece is the background . I used mustard seed, wild honey and spiced marmalade distress inks on my craft mat, misted over the bunting with water and then swiped it through the inks until I had the depth of colour I desired. I dried it off and then very very gently misted some Butterscotch colorwash onto some areas. I dried it again and then stamped the Tim Holtz Papillon stamp In brushed corduroy and Lyn Perellas festton stamp at the top. The doll parts were stamped over in an assortment of stamps from Tim’s Bitty grunge collection and some Paperartsy stamps and the head was cut from their Lynne Perella range, and her top hat was covered in glossy accents. The paper porcelain rose with tattered die cut leaf was applied in honour of Hels who is amazing at these and taught me how to do it! I coloured the rose parts by spraying expresso colorwash over Kraft paper and accented over the rose with viva gold when it was dry and attached with a glue gun. Milady’s butterfly umbrella was cut from an ARTchix paper doll sheet and the paper ruffle round her neck was tissue tape stained with aged mahogany DI set off with a brad. The stars are grungeboard shapes dabbed with gold acrylic and then I banged pink eyelets at the top to thread the pink paper ribbon through.

I hope you all have fun misting and spraying, here’s a tip, cover EVERYTHING in paper towels if you use colourwash. I forgot and my craft room has some interesting new décor now! xx