by the sea with Laura

Hey Guys, Laura here today. Are you guilty of having something in your stash that has sat unused for years? I am – lets pull those unloved supplies out and use them! I have had the stencil I used for my background for years… possibly 6? Maybe more!!

I grabbed three colours of Dazzlerz texture paste – Gummy Berry Blue, Sour Apple Green and Lemon Drop Yellow. I used the three colours separately through the stencil leaving a little gap in between the colours. I then came back to the gaps and filled them with a mixture of the two colours from either side. I have found the key to clean stencilling is to manipulate the paste as little as possible. The more times you go over it with a palette knife the more opportunity for the paste to spread underneath the stencil (as my sour apple did).

I then gathered some matching sequins. Let’s Be Mermaids was a good place to start with its big blues and little yellows. I fancied adding a few bigger yellow sequins too and pulled these from the Spring Blooms mix.