Kiitos = Thank you

I needed a thank you -card for my craft class teacher, and here it is. I love challenges, and this time I was really inspired by the first four of the following challenges... The fifth is there just because it happened to fit :)

Paperartsy (grunge paste)

Stampinback (focus on text)

Chocolate Baroque (colours blue/purple/greens)

SimonSaysStamp Monday challenge (one stamp, many ways)

SimonSaysStamp Wednesday challenge (anything goes)

 As for how I ended up with all these challenges:

I planned on making a card in the CB challenge colours, and I had decided to cut out the text from scrap card to make a large text stencil and stamp with CB texture fragments. Then I checked the Paperartsy challenge... Wondering what the grunge paste was, I ended up looking through several interesting youtube videos and learning that it is a texture paste by Paperartsy. I also learned that it is claylike, which means it is probably the texture paste I would like to have (I am very dissapointed by the plastic transparency of the texture/modelling pastes in my stash). I decided to use texture paste from my stash with my stencil and add stamping (youtube: grungepaste video 106). Monday came, and after seeing the SSS Monday challenge I decided to keep to a single stamp. 

The background card has first been dipped in Distress ink (seedless preserves) and stamped with the CB texture fragment using Chipped Sapphire spritzed with water... 

As said, I don't have the grunge paste (so the Paperartsy team will get to decide if this post is valid or not for their challenge). I used Deco Art white modelling paste through my homecut stencil and stamped with the CB texture fragment on the wet paste. The picture above shows how "white" it is... 

And here is the card after two layers of gesso on the paste. Perhaps I should try mixing the gesso in the paste before spreading it...

After which I added different green Distress Inks with an ink blender. (At this point I really started to like my stencil, don't yet know what I'll do with it!)

I finished of the card by drawing and shadowing with a promarker and blender and mounting it on a dark blue card base. The texture on the modelling paste is quite cool, even though the details of the stamp are generally not very visible... probably due to a combination of the used paste and my lack of skills, but certainly to be tried out again some other time!