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Hope you are all enjoying the festive period. I created this next piece just for fun!

I had some Lyra pencils for Christmas and thought I would try them out, they are wonderful to use.

The image is from stampotique.

The background has been created with Dylusions paints.

I love this sentiment which I stamped on a scrap of paper.

I added splatters of red paint to lift the background a little.

I hope you all get a little time in this busy period to do something just for fun!

Thanks for stopping by. Tracy x x

Outside Your Comfort Zone

Morning, hope you are all enjoying your weekend. We have another fabulous challenge for you over at the Love to Create Challenge Blog where the theme is Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes.

This week I thought I would use one of my Stampotique images by Kate Crane combined with my PanPastels. The background has been coloured with DecoArt Fluid Acrylics Cobalt Teal Hue, Cobalt Turquoise Hue and Yellow Green Light; blending the colours with a baby wipe and then drying with a heat tool.

I then placed the Tim Holtz Splotches stencil onto the background and applied Orange and touches of Permanent Red PanPastels over the stencil and then sprayed lightly with hairspray to set the pastels.

I added a touch more shading around the stencilled areas applying Phthalo Green and Turquoise Shade, blending a little further with my finger. I stamped the Stampotique image onto white card with Black Archival Ink and then coloured with my Polychromo pencils. I added a touch of shading around the image so that it does not blend into the backdrop. Tissue Tape grounds the image and adds touches of texture to the design. The sentiment is also a Stampotique stamp.

I added scratchy paint lines and painty circles using Carbon Black DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylic and added delicate splatters of Titanium White Fluid Acrylic. To add a further layer of interest I added delicate stamping using a Tim Holtz background stamp and Watering Can Archival Ink. I also added shading around the edges with PanPastel Black Coarse Pearl Medium.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Tracy x x

Soft Tools	PanPastel Turquoise Shade	Black COARSE Pearl Medium for PanPastels	Permanent Red	Orange
PanPastel Phthalo Green