081613 CKC Challenge #3 (insert Psycho music here) NO PATTERNED PAPER!!!!

Well, we are playing over at the Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog this month,
and today is my SUPREME challenge!!!

NO. PATTERNED. PAPER.

(yikes!)

I was totally inspired by soapHOUSEmama, Ashli Oliver to make an amazing creation.

Alas - I think I will need a LOT more practice, but please enjoy her first video tutorial.

So of course, I MUST have patterned paper, so now I need to make some!

 

First, I choose a selection of images that I think are interesting.

Shall I make an allover pattern?

Will I paint, or ink, or use gelatos?

I think I will start with my favorite - periwinkle blue.

And a homemade stamp to give some texture to the background.

And an interesting thing happens - the old paint color reappears!

And it makes me happy.

Butterflies are happy.

(Shhh! these are actually moths, but you won't tell, will you?)

Let's make them pretty.

A waterbrush & watercolors...and later some Rock Candy Stickles.

Perfect! These little beauties are about to be fussy-cut.

Now a little something to land them on.

Remember - no patterned paper.

No problem!

Some ink, a stamp, a punch, and voila!

Gotta have some pattern... that's just how I roll.

Put it all together...

The picture is of my signature piece of jewelry - my charm bracelet.

I love how the waste from the punch looks.

So who needs patterned paper anyway?