This is my first attempt at grunge/abstract art. I admit, it is not exactly my calling. I'm a very linear person, and this is sooooooooo far out of my element. But I took a LOT of inspiration from Miss Mona Lisa's art that she posted here:
Armed with this inspiration piece, I scavenged through my leftover papers, lace, chipboard, and stamps, and pieced this together. I sprayed the wings and the orange-y background with Sugar Cookie Glimmer Mist to give it a gorgeous shimmery look.
Meanwhile, I covered the chipboard heart first with Frayed Burlap Distress Crackle Paint, let it dry, and randomly splotched some Worn Lipstick Distress Crackle Paint on top of that. It was too pink for me, so I went back over it with splotches of the Frayed Burlap again - not totally covering up the pink though. It crackled beautifully!!! LOVE this stuff! Now I need more!
I inked up the pink lace with Tea Dye distress ink and let that dry. While I was waiting on this and the chipboard to dry, I stamped the swirls from Beautiful on the background piece, as well as the sentiment. I wanted a more distress-y look, or grunge-y look, so I dabbed some Sandal Adirondack Paint Dabber in random splotches here and there, and did a very light dab over the Frayed Burlap crackle paint on the chipboard.
I bought the stamps, the crackle paints, the dabber ink, and the Tea Dye Distress ink from Cornish Heritage Farms .
The colors, the bow, wings..everything!! all ties together beautifully. Are the wings the grungeboard stuff ?? and did you stamp the flowers(design) on it?
I'm NEW also to doing the grungy look, but after seeing the crackled heart, I definetly gotta get some of that paint to try anyway. Does it take a LONG time to dry??
Keep up the excellent work..I think you know exactly what you're doing to get that effect (or distressed look) ...BEAUTIFUL card.