Well this layout has taken pretty much all day, aside from occasional breaks to make tea for the landscape gardeners laying my greenhouse base. I had this background waiting for something over the top – in fact since I printed it using this technique in 2011. I’d also blended a thin layer of Dylusions Paint over the top to help seal it. A new set of alphabet stencils also arrived yesterday afternoon, so that’s where the zen started, continued with the hand-drawn flowers (following some of the examples in the FloraBunda book), and then coloured with glazes.

Used in this layout:

• Dylusions Paint: White Linen
• DecoArt Personally Yours Stencil: Solid [PYB101]
• Sakura Pigma Micron Pen: 04 Black
• Silks Acrylics Glazes:
  • Black Emerald
  • Ice
  • African Jade
  • Emperor’s Gold
  • Boysenberry
  • Pink Azalea
  • Warm Grey
• Imagine Crafts irRESISTible Pico Embellisher: Wedding Dress