Grunge Paste Icing - For PaperArtsy

Over on the Paper Artsy Blog I am delighted to have a little wooden shrine I have made with Lin Brown's new flower stamps and stencils, for the Grunge Paste theme. As well as the more traditional stamping into grungepaste, I also thought it would be fun to try other things that could be used to make patterns in the paste, and I came across these modelling tools:-

They were in the children's section of a general purpose shop and I honestly didn't know what they were intended for but I bought them thinking they would be fun for working with clay - that's for another day! Then I was out with my sister in law who is a magnificent cake baker and I realized they are intended as icing tools. Who knew?!

So I plastered some Eclectica Chipboard Leaves with Grunge Paste which I mixed with two of the new colours, Banana and Jade, to make a bright emerald green, as the other colours in the new sets are very vivid, and I used a dark Chatsworth background to soften the effect. Here are the leaves, but you can see the whole project on the PaperArtsy blog:-

I used the icing tool to make veins on the leaves.

I'll just add a couple of explanatory photos now that I didn't have room for over at PaperArtsy. Here's a pic of the Secret Garden wording going on, with a mixture of Grunge Paste and the new Bougainvillea Fresco Paint. Amazing how clear this stencil comes out each time!

For the side panels of the shrine I used the smaller Lin Brown flower from the more recent set ELB 20  with the new matching stencil. I used low tack tape to hold the stencil in place, and mixed the Grunge Paste with Zesty Zing and Banana.

I dabbed Tangerine Twist and Prawn onto cut n dry foam and applied to the matching stamp and pressed into the Grunge Paste without a block and peeled off, then cleaned the stamp immediately.

 

I hope you will join in the current challenge which is to use Grunge Paste. Details can be found here!