PaperArtsy Blog Challenge No.3 Paint

The challenge this time around is to use paint

... in Leandra's words -

"It doesn't matter what paint you use, 

just have some fun and try some ideas out!!"

Being completely devoid of any ideas of my own (!!)

I remembered recently watching some of Leandra's

YouTube videos about painting backgrounds and took

inspiration from this one in particular entitled

'Fresco Chalk Acrylic Brayer Backgrounds 3'.

These are the paints I used

 

I did also use a few others (of different brands)

 although they were mainly dried up so didn't really work.

Here's the background I ended up with.

It's not as pretty as the one in the video, but I'm

pleased with it as a first attempt - and it's only

done on copy paper, so not bad really (for me!).

I covered two old coasters with some of it.

Stamped out a few images from the new set of 

wonderful stamps

by Clare Lloyd (ECL04 PaperArtsy).

I was ambitious at first and stamped a couple on

Aida fabric but didn't like how I coloured them (with paint),

so eventually settled for an image stamped on

card and coloured with watercolour pencils.

I stuck the chosen one onto one of the coasters

and that become the front cover of a post-it-note holder.

 There's even some of the background left over

for another project!

There are loads of wonderful examples

and another video all about this challenge

 on the PaperArtsy Blog.

Thanks for looking :)