Scrapbooking | Fussy Cutting and Painting

I seem to have fussy cut the majority of a sheet a Cocoa Vanilla floral paper. I thought I'd paint myself a background for them to sit on... and then used barely any of them on top as I couldn't bear to cover the painting!!

The paints are all from Shimmerz in varying shades of blue with a touch of Miner Miner 49er - which is a fantastic shade of gold - thrown in towards the end.

This is take two of the painting as the first try was far too tight. I loosened up for this attempt so much so that I dropped the paintbrush at one point. That made for even more looseness as I had to incorporate the extra paint it left where it landed!

Embellishing was super simple with three gold thread tangles and some sequins.

I have loads of the fussy cut flowers left over so I have started painting another background to work on top of. Hopefully I'll be able to bear covering more of it up!

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