A paint fusioned box for my post...........

Hi there!

I've had a very rare moment away from my DT work to do some crafting for myself so thought I'd share it with you here today.

This is an mdf mail box by Crafters Companion that I have first crackled with a layer of acrylic paint, a layer of weathered wood and then a thin top coat of a lighter acrylic paint.  I have paint fusioned with acrylic paints.

For those of you not familiar with paint fusion - it's a technique taught by Sheena Douglass but it is the old fashioned way of folk painting.  Sheena brings it back to life in the form of rubber stamps that you stamp on to your work for guidance which gives you the images and then you use the folk painting techniques with paint to bring the rubber stamped images to life.

As it is going in to my kitchen to store everyones post as it arrives I thought I'd go with blackberries!

Very relaxing to do and this was a lovely project to complete.

As I have made this for myself and thought it was very pretty and useful, I will enter it into Stamping Sensations challenge this month of "One for the Girls" - well, it was one for me!!!!
http://sirstampalotchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/april-challenge.html

Thanks for stopping by,

Leanne xxxx

Paint fusion samples for Sheena Douglass..............

Good morning!

Today I'm sharing some art work that I've done for Sheena Douglass using her paint fusion stamps and paints.

All these samples were created for HSN (Home Shopping Network) in America.

Have a browse - see what you think......

The first one is an 8 x 8 card, the rest are on small mdf board shapes and the last one is a paper mache heart shaped box.

Paint fusion is the mixture of more than one colour of paint (usually an acrylic base) on your paint brush and painting with the two colours at once - hence, fusing the paint colours together - paint fusion.  Sheena has some ranges of stamps that you stamp first and then paint fusion over them to form what you can see here.  For those of you that have never tried this before, it does take practice but you can buy practice sheets too that show you how the strokes can work together.

A small insight in to what I've been up to recently!

Hope you like it,

Thanks for stopping by today,

Leanne xxxx