Paint the town...teal!

The theme over on the Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge is "Paint It Up"  I'm really loving the Claudine Hellmuth Studio Acrylic Paints right now, they're really packed with pigment.  Even the thinnest scraping gives great colour coverage!  All paints mentioned below are from that range.

OK, so on to what I did.  This is gonna take a bit of explaining, so I'll make it as brief and clear as I can.  Hold on to your hats, here we go!

I started by using a Ranger craft scraper to cover a square of white card with a thin layer of Classic Teal paint.  I followed that with layers of Traditional Tan and Gesso and some thin lines of red, made with the edge of the scraper.

I stamped the circles from Tim Holtz's Mixed Media set on the right hand side using Peacock Feathers Distress Ink.  Because the painted surface is water resistant the ink is pooled and mottled as it doesn't sink into the paper - love that effect!

Using Ranger Archival Jet Black I stamped the circles from the Psychedelic Grunge set on the left hand side.  Usually when I use this stamp, I will apply colour to it in some way, but today I wanted to have a gradual fading of colour from right to left, from the rich teal circles to the monochrome, so I left it as it was.

I took a square of Tattered Time card stock and scraped on a thin layer of Classic Teal paint.  The men from the Steampunk stamp set were added with black Versafine ink.  I stamped then again on white text-weight paper and cut out the faces, applying them onto the teal background.  Finally I used a white pen to pick out the highlights on the hats and the flower in one man's buttonhole.  This allowed me to keep the faces and highlights white while still allowing the teal to show through the shading on the jackets and hats.  I edged the square with some Walnut Stain distress ink applied with an ink blending tool.

I cut a circle from some white card I'd painted teal and used a copper eyelet to apply it to a tab I'd cut from some Tattered Time card and fixed it in place.  Finally I mounted the piece onto a square of teal painted card and then onto my white card blank.

Supplies I used included:

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