Rain, Rain, Go Away, Come again another day . . . or maybe not

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Welcome to this week's Thursday Dream Scheme.  I know I shouldn't complain about the rain when family and friends are dealing with snow shovels, snow blowers and HUGE amounts of the white, fluffy stuff.  But I'm a California girl and, while I know we need the rain, couldn't it just rain at night and be sunny during the day?

Since Mother Nature bats last, I'm using this cheery rooster to remind me that Spring and Summer are just months away.  The stencil (LG732) was released at CHA last month and is fast becoming one of my favorites.   I paste embossed the rooster with matte black paste.  When that was dry, I repositioned the stencil and applied crackle paste. (Don't forget to wash your stencil immediately after each paste application.)  Crackles appeared as the paste dried, but he needed to be a bit more colorful for a rooster.  Repositiioning the stencil over the rooster, I used chalk for color and shading.

Before pasting up a few more roosters, I used double-sided sticky paper to adhere the printed paper to heavier card stock.  This kept the printed paper from curling as it absored moisture from the paste.   I did not do that on the card in this post and you can see a bit of warping under the top feather.   It's a learning process . . .


Be sure to check the Dream Team member blogs on the right for more fun projects.  See you next week and Happy Crafting,

Liz