Here comes the sun

Hello everyone,

I have been bursting to tell you that I have been invited to join the Country View Challenge Design Team. Needless to say I happily accepted and for my first post for April's "SPRING" challenge I have made a little MDF panel to hang on the wall. Sit down with a lovely cuppa and see how this came together...

This is the finished project.......

 pan

I started with a piece of MDF which measures 25 x 25 cm or 10 x 10" and 

 painted two layers of Gesso on it

Next I used a Tim Holtz Layering stencil and some modelling paste and dried it with a heat tool. You have to be careful though because if you hold it too close for too long the model paste will start bubbling. 

Next I painted the whole thing with PaperArtsy Freso Finish paints. I used 'Mermaid' 'Beach Hut' and 'Inky Pool'. The 'Inky pool' is the darkest and I used that to accentuate the numbers by painting it on and then wiping some of it off again. 

Here's a close up. 

Next I used some Tim Holtz stamps to add some interest. The harlequins were stamped with a white ink which faded whilst drying so I poured some white embossing powder over them just before it was dry and heat embossed it. In the final version you can see that they are a lot whiter. 

Next I used a flower die to cut some flowers from a piece of white cotton. I cut loads of them... 

Here they all are, ready to be coloured... 

I used Dylusions spray for this... 

After cutting I sprayed them with the Dylusions inks that are in the photo; I did think they were way to bright though, so I sprayed them with the White Linen spray and that toned everything down a bit. 

After drying with the heat tool, I put them together with a brad. 

This is what they looked like.... 

Next I took a scrap of white card stock and used a Copic Marker to draw some horizontal linen on it. I then cut them into vertical 'stems' for the flowers. 

The flowers and stems were then adhered to the panel. 

Here's a close up of the flowers.... 

The last thing I did was stamp the sentiment with Tim Holtz "worn text" alphabet stamps, cut out the words and adhered the strips onto the panel. I added some shading with a charcoal pencil... 

That was it... 

Hope you will join us ! 

I am also entering this into the take it make challenge over at Craftstamper ! Wish me luck !!!