Blue Sweetie...

Hello!
It's the halfway mark over at the A Little Bit Crafty challenge this month... the challenge is to create 'something sweet'!
I've made a painty panel (shock horror!!), but one that uses only a little paint. Perfect to get those of you that don't use paint all that often off to a messy start!

I started off by embossing one side of the kraft panel with a dotty embossing folder. Yes, you do need to squish up the cardstock to get it to go through the machine! We were never aiming for perfectly smooth, however, so a little crumpling can only add to the texture and interest of the piece!
I then added the pale blue paint. Easy peasy, just scraped on randomly with a palette knife!

 I dried this off, then did the sewing around the edges and on the background. Next comes the ivory paint. I waited to do this because I wanted to soften the stitching, blue over the stitching would be too much, but a little ivory works well...

The ivory is also perfect to highlight the raised dotty areas..

My figure is stamped onto an old book page, then a chit chat sticker added to finish...

Simple, quick and a nice way to get into paint!
Love Trish xxx