Clairty cumbria step by step and other makes.

Hello lovelies - how are you this fine morning? I hope you are well and happy. We are good and looking forward to a short trip to Nottingham to take Bez home. We've not been to Nottingham for over a year - since before Shaun had his heart attack. It will be good to be there again and the girls will enjoy catching up with their cousins.  Fingers crossed it will be fun.

I did have fun yesterday - it was Clarity Cumbria August and we did a mixed media thermometer house - here's the steps:

To start with we masked off the thermometer then used whichever stencils we wanted to use with grunge paste - I used grunge paste for the non circles and wendy vecchi crackle paste for the jo's bubbles stencil. we left this to dry.

Next we added embellishments I chose to add some Tim Holtz diecuts - the dragonfly and garden greens. Also some wooden flowers.

Next it was time to cover entirely in black gesso and leave to dry.

Finally I added a variety of colours of inka gold to highlight the different areas and added two Tim Holtz diecut words.

I hope you like this make - I certainly do and would like to enter it into the following challenges:

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I also made a few tags and a card whilst waiting for the drying processes:

I had a great day and thanks to Jo for all your hard work!  Thanks to all the lovely ladies who came along and brought cake too! 

Have a great Sunday!

Hugs

Rachel xx