…. YES, playing with acrylic paints and stencils to create a 30/30 background.
Cut it up in pieces in the end, and you’ve got one-of-a-kind backgrounds for 6 cards.

A tutorial today on the HOW-TO,
showing the use of 12×12 stencils.

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Use a 30/30 scrapbook paper in a blue color as the base.
I used a scrapbook paper from Bazzill.

Brayer some white acrylic paint to the page to add interest.

    
Use 3 different greens plus a yellow and a red acrylic paint and sponge it over this beautiful stencil :TCW536 Postcard 12×12
Don’t use too much paint.
Make the colors blend on the page.

  Using the same colors of acrylic paint, sponge over a second stencil. …
TCW541 Believe Script 12×12

….and a third….
TCW502 Impressions 12×12

 …and a fourth…
TCW532 Cathedral of Love 12×12]

  and finally a fifth one.
TCW514 Cabbage Roses 12×12

To knock back the colors a bit, brayer some white acrylic paint to the page. I scribbled in the paint on the brayer before applying it.

NOW: cut your page into 6 A6 backgrounds for cards.

Add some sponging with red and blue distress ink to match the background.
Also add some white with an acrylic marker to make the sponged images pop.

  
Stamp a saying onto the card, heat emboss it with clear embossing powder.
Adhere to a card base.

A close-up.

LOVE the chalky effect,
although, as the steps enrolled,
I thought maybe I should have stopped sponging after the first or second application of color.

What do you think?

TCW514 Cabbage Roses 12×12