Let's Go For A Bike Ride . . .

My inspiration for this April card was the Maja Design 

"Let's Go For A Bike Ride" paper. 

 I chose to work with 3 different 

Gypsy Soul Laser Cuts.

Bicycles

Butterflies & Dragonflies

Gears Shape Set

Here are the steps I took to create this:

• I basecoated the bicycle with white milk paint.
• Once the base coat was dry, I pounced Hickory Smoke Distress ink on top of the milk paint.
• Let the ink dry (or dry with a heat gun) and add a layer of Crackle Paste on top. (Let the crackle paste dry on its own.)  

Since there was so much pink in the paper, I wanted the bicycle to be pink as well. I first tried watering down Festive Berry Oxide but that was a bit too light.

• I stuck with Mahogany Distress Ink, watered down a bit and painted on top of the dry crackle.

• Wanting to add cogs to the wheels, I used various colors of Prima Rust Effect Paste and literally *plopped* them on with my finger tip. Let dry.

• Once the cogs were dry I added them to the bicycle wheels. And found some button like embellishments to put in the center of the cogs.

• Using a butterfly, I painted the butterfly with alcohol ink and added Glossy Accents and an odd shaped bead I found in my stash.

And it was that easy to complete!

Here is a list of the Gypsy Soul Laser Cuts I used:

• Bicycles
• Butterflies & Dragonflies
• Gears Shape Set

Thanks for visiting Nancy-land today.

What better way to spend time indoors right now 

than with

Gypsy Soul Laser Cuts.

Thank goodness for crafting!

Stay well everyone.