MORE NAUTICAL..

 Hello everyone,

The weekend is here and I'm a day ahead of the rest of the world so I get excited first..

I was even more excited when I came across some wooden frames that I knew I had, but just forgot, but tidying up the garage I came across a box full of them...so of course everything came to a standstill, and I had to play..

I gave this one a quick sanding and painted on four coats of Gesso, I do not use topcoat paint, not really necessary and gesso sands off for that distressed look much easier.

so here we go, nice and white and clean..

this is the matt from the frame and keeping it just like it is..

these gorgeous papers are what I wanted to use, and they are dark and old looking and went perfectly with the green matt..my favourite theme is nautical

these are book pages that I played around with yesterday, and using them for matting behind the pictures..

I squirted ink onto a plastic cloth and added blending solution

then pattered the papers really fast as it dries quick..

as they dried I added more ink and/or solution and pattered them into it again, until I got

these..fun..

So placed the three down and added glue onto the matt..

and pressed down..

this is a beautiful sentiment and I stamped in many times to get it dark enough..

then added moss..

onion bag netting and moss..

onion bag and ship wheel - die cut in brown card stock and added the gold coloured 

flat back gems for decoration..

and here she is, all done, a little distressing on the frame, but may add more..

Didn't need the glass so it is just open, going to try sell it, we'll see how it goes..

thank you so much for stopping by..

I'll see you soon..

Luv CHRISSYxx

Dragonfly Dreams   ( Favourite things- for me Nautical)

Allsorts challenge   ( Summer Days or anything goes )

Crafting Happiness  ( Boats, ship, submarines, Cruise ships)

Creative Fingers   ( Anything goes)