Circus Bear by Tracy Blackwolf

 Hello everyone!!

Today I made a card for my blog project.

For my background, I used several colors of thick acrylic paint. I put it right on the card and used a brush to spread it around.

Once I had the paint on, I dried it with my heat tool. And then used a pallet knife to put some crackle paste on in some areas. Pro tip: Don't be impatient like me and dry the crackle paste with a heat tool. Let it air dry. You will not get much if any cracks otherwise. As you see on my card. few cracks.

I needed some yellow so I used some distress oxide wild honey re inker on top of the paste. I heat dried it, and kept putting paints and even some red distress spray stain on until I was happy. Its a very textured background.

While that finished drying, I stamped the Banksy circus bear on a piece of cardstock and painted him with distress sprays like watercolor.

I used foam tape to pop him up on top of the background. Then I mounted it all onto a black card. I used some TH small talk words to finish the card. 

I hope you like my card today~ Thanks for looking.

Stamp used:

Banksy Circus Bear       19977

Other supplies:

Various Acrylic paints-see photo above

Crackle paste by Golden

Distress spray stains: Lumberjack plaid., Gathered twigs, Vintage photo, twisted citron, saltwater taffy,

Squeezed lemonade

Dixie bell chalk paint- lemonade

THE SIDESHOW - by Fran Chalmers

Hello everyone!

Today I have made a card using the lovely Banksy bear on a unicycle! Here's how I made it....

 First of all I made a background by smooshing distress inks in Kitsch Flamingo, Mustard Seed and Picked Raspberry, drying between layers.

I then added background stamps in different colour inks (see below) to add a bit of texture.

I stamped the bear onto thick paper and coloured with copic pens.  I fussy cut it out and edged it with a black marker.

After placing the bear, I edged the mat with Spiced Marmalade distress ink, and coloured the bunting and the inside of the chevrons.  I stamped the sentiment in black straight onto the mat.

I glued the mat onto a white card to finish off.

Stamps Used:

Banksy Circus Bear 19977

Library Return Dates 20342 

Row of Scribble Circles/Eyes 20172

Row of chevrons 19829

The Sideshow 19061

Other Items Used:

Distress inks in Kitsch Flamingo, Mustard Seed, Picked Raspberry, Spiced Marmalade

Versafine Clair inks in Warm Breeze, Nocturn and Chianti

Copic Pens

Black pen

See you next time!