Messy and New!

Hello friends

I had an absolutely smashing day yesterday at The Artistic Stamper

trying out something completely new to me.

It involved paint - a lot of paint!

The class was taught by Tracey Scott, super talented and lovely lady.

First off we applied various colours of paint to good quality card.

No paintbrushes here...just use your fingers!

We then did some splattering with gold or white.

Next step was to do some stamping - these are Tracey's stamp designs for 

PaperArtsy.

I adore the leaves and huge daisies and look...one closed flower looks

just like Queen Elizabeth I !! 

It was then a case of cutting them all out!

I found this very relaxing, I don't think I've sat for that many hours

just chatting and fussy cutting - really enjoyed it.

We were asked to bring a journal, turns out I brought along the smallest one!

I was pleased though as I used less flowers and now have some in reserve

for other projects.

We prepared a background with paints, mine with hindsight was a little too subtle.

Added a little bit of stamping to the background and then arranged the flowers.

This isn't quite my finished piece but even just laying the flowers down

and seeing the vibrant colours made me very happy.

My mind is now racing with ideas and these include die cutting so

watch this space!  

We did complete a second page which I will share with you soon,

just need to get some photos in daylight (typing this near midnight!)

My summary of the day - brilliant and a change is 

most definitely as good as a rest. 

Stop by tomorrow for more photos and announcing

charity kit winner!

Take care friends.