Drips and Drops

It’s February! Already! That means there is a new challenge at Country View Crafts Challenges and it is... Drips and Drops. I was so thrilled when I saw this as a challenge theme – there’s so much you can do with drips and drops! So for my first project this month I have made a giant tag. The drips are flower stalks and the drops make up the background.

I started by putting white and blue paint on the tag with my palette knife. I wasn’t really fussed about getting a perfect finish which you can probably see! Then I watered down some green paint (to sort of single cream consistency) and let it run down my tag. When it had run enough I left it to dry... that bit is never the fun bit is it?! 

Then I added drips of Dylusions Ink and, when those were dry, circles of Distress Ink through a mask. I added a blue border at the top and a green one at the bottom, a few painty circles using an old lid and some stamping (Ellen Vargo for PaperArtsy). There *may* be a smidge of brown Distress Ink at the edges...!

The flower heads are a Lynne Perella stamp, stamped four times on tissue paper and painted on the reverse and adhered to tulip shapes. Doesn't the lady look like she's wearing a fancy montera?!? I love these flowers, especially paired with the sentiment from Tim Holtz!

So how will you use Drips and Drops? My team mates have, as ever, made some incredible projects – do pop over and see them!