Thursday, 24 June 2010

Addicted to crackle paint....

I think I have a serious problem, I am addicted to crackle paint!!!


So here's another frame, painted with above mentioned paint and spritzed with glimmer mists. I'm still grateful to Hels for introducing me to this technique, you just don't know what kinda crackle monster you created!!!

I had a little play with the alterations on the edge die and since I love anything laced up I thought the 2 pieces of swirly grungeboard be perfect to be laced together with some string. Although I did lace it up about 4 different times til I ended up with this result. So many different options. The birds are crackled too and the tree bunch covered in distress embossing powder (had that for ages and never got on with it until now, it makes the perfect texture and look for a tree branch).






Some detail here for you.
I added a little frame that has part of an old stamp behind it and then it's filled with glossy accents.
The leaves have been cut from card with a punch. I inked up some white card and splattered water over it to make that effect, then just punched loads of leaves from the whole sheet.
There is also a little light bulb vial filled with watch parts hanging in the tree. I couldn't get a good enough close up shot, sorry.
I'm off to crackle some more.....

2 comments:

  1. This is a really grand piece, love all the cracklin'!

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  2. Anika, this is one of the uploads on All Things Tim Yahoo that I fell in love with. Thanks so much for explaining how you created it.

    I think it is so special!

    Carolyn S

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