Hey,
I was looking around for a different challenge on Sunday and came across Come and Get it Challenge.
This time the challenge is 'Make your own background' - fun times for me..I love backgrounds.
I decided as my current fave Monster stamp keeps rampaging through cityscapes (my fault, not his), that it would be fun to use a map as a base for my background.
I have a whole stack of second hand books I used for art journaling and one of them is an NYC guidebook, so the page I used is actually 'Lower Harlem'.
I covered it with Gesso (creates a base so you can paint, stencil, etc over a glossy piece of paper), dried it with my heat tool, then stenciled the green and blue boxes and the numbers.
I fussy cut the monster and added a little speech bubble die for the sentiment.
The shiny bits you can see on my Monster are Nuvo Drops in Caribbean Sea.
I love the end result, more of this style of background making methinks!
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