Up the Wall

Up the Wall

Morning!  How's it going?

I know, some of you won't see

this until evening!  I just feel

if I say Good Evening it will

seem as though I've only just

remembered to do the blog

...............ooops!

Craftyfield is here today with

a super card reminiscent of

travels to sunnier climes.....

..........and times.....

"Despite the many options available to create a wall texture,

 I chose to represent the rendered walls so popular in Europe.

 Shame really as The Craft Barn has many stencils and stamps

 to fake the look of bricks, stones, wood and more...

 It could have been so easy... 

But no I persevered!

To complete the look I needed to create a window 

for my wall and some sort of gate, maybe with a bicyle...

To create my window I cut 4 rectangles from

 a piece of white cardstock. 

I then used an embossing tool and a foam mat 

to emboss lines around the frame

For colour I settled on a blue base, 

which I distress in the next step.

I mixed the colour from Frescos in 

South Pacific and Lavender.

I applied a thin layer of diluted crackle and

 overpainted with white paint

 I used double sided tape to affix a piece of 

acetate for my window panes

The wall texture was built in layers.

 I started with a layer of gesso and painted mixes of colours

 over the top to establish a background colour. 

Then with a sponge and tinted Grunge paste I "stamped" the stucco texture. 

I must say I wasn't sure if this would work, but it does, brilliantly in fact!

 I considered giving my window some curtains

but decided a dark colour would leave more to the imagination. 

I roughly drew in my panes with Inktense pencils 

mixing the colours on the paper. 

I then applied (a little) water with a wet brush.

To distress my wall I added some crackle, 

mixing grey and black ink directly on the stamp 

on top of Antique linen Distress ink.

 The Distress allows the inks to mix more 

readily with each other.

Finally the garden was stamped, fussy cut 

and coloured with Inktense pencils.

I tried to take some picture in natural lighting 

and this one does show the wall texture, 

very true to life I think

And another close up showing the subtle crackle 

and my impulse addition of a flowering branch 

coming down the wall, 

which I also painted with pencils."

Supplies:

Acetate:
Ultra clear double sided tape: 
Fresco paints: 
Crackle medium:
Grunge paste:
DecoArt paints:
Garden stamp:
Inktense Pencils: 
Crackle stamp:[I used an old stamp from my collection, no longer available]
Memento inks:

That stucco effect is amazing Craftyfield

Thank you for showing us how to do that

Think I'll go and see if I can

achieve at least a reasonable 

resemblance to stucco

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx