And, on the other side...

I've done something completely different!
The new stamps arrived in the post on Saturday, so I thought I'd use one of them - CI-392. Who couldn't love that punky baby penguin?:

Here's the back of the canvas, painted (although as it turned out I didn't need to paint it as I covered it with paper - just goes to show I had no idea what I was going to make when I started this!):

The paper is from the 7 Dots Studio 9th Wave Collection. I just followed the pattern and tore wave borders:

 

and then added a sort of beachy paper round the top:

Sponge on a bit of extra yellow with Scattered Straw:

and then add more stamping with a Scattered Straw Distress Marker and a text stamp from CI-278:

Use the same set and starfish from CI-272 to stamp round edge in black:

Stamp, colour and cut out your penguins:

Stick them to the canvas:

and then get splatting with white paint (you didn't think you were going to get away without something messy, did you?!):

And, hey presto, there you are:

You could add little embellies at this point, but I decided to leave it as is!

And for those who can't remember, this is what the other side looked like:

Completely different!

Thanks for looking!

Helen

PS Please note: I managed not to get any of the splats on the birdie side - quite impressive for me as usually paint goes everywhere!