ATB, Upcycled cornflakes box and Crackle

The new 'Take a Technique' theme at TIMI is Texture: I made an Artist Trading Block out of a cereal box ( I don't have any cutting machine here for the proper Sizzix die).
In one of the two parcels sent me from Italy there was the Distress Crackle Clear Rock Candy. I never used this stuff, because everytime I got a poor result, but this time, since the limited supplies on hands, I didn't give up until I got the gorgeous texture I always see on the web.
Questo mese il tema del challenge di CraftStamper magazine è Texture: io ho creato una ATB da una scatola di cereali e usato finalmente con successo (dopo diversi anni di giacenza) il Distress Crackle Clear Rock Candy.

The colours came from a lucky experiment: I gessoed the cardstock and then I sprayed some Lindy's Stamp Gang sprays.
Lo sfondo è successo per caso, dopo aver gessato e spruzzato i colori, mi sono accorta che il gesso se li era semplicemente succhiati, o forse quel tipo di cartoncino non so.

When dry I got a grey-sh, blu-ish pink-ish sad stuff...the gesso or the cardstock, sucks all the colours, I just wanted to throw away everything.
Stavo per abbandonare l'opera quando ho visto sulla scrivania il barattolo del crackle'.

When I saw the rocky cracle candy on my desk (since I was using it on an AJ page)...I tried to scrap a thick layer on the cardstock and the day after the colours were back!! 
Ne ho spennellato una bella quantità e la mattina i colori erano ritornati alla superficie, non so per quale reazione chimica! Mai arrendersi!

I don't know which chemical reation happened but I was so happy!

And the texture, lovely!

And this is the AJ page where I used also the crakle:

 The background has been made by cleaning my stencils and then scraping a thick layer of crackle.The image was so beautiful I decided that the page didn't need anything else. Sometimes less is more.
Lo sfondo era una pagina dove ho pulito gli stencils da un altro progetto, e sopra un bello strato di crackle'.

With this page I participate on the challenge  on ArtJournal Journey: Masculine /Feminine