Everything starts with a Dream Mixed Media Canvas Layout!

 Hello everyone!

Happy Wednesday!

I want to showcase my canvas layout in a bright spring palette to gift my daughter!

The base of the composition was a MDF cutouts in the form of a door and windows. The background is made with a stencil, and texture paste on a pattern paper with clear gesso. I then sprayed some of the mists and blended them together with a wet paintbrush.

I added a green corrugated sheet at the top of the canvas. 

Gave a coat of chalk paint at all 4 corners and using a stencil applied the texture paste.

I added a scrap pice to the window with red tacky tape to attach the window shutter.

I now continue to add more embellishments and once they are all in place I applied gesso and some more paste to the flowers, door and window.

Some close-ups:

Handmade flowers, pollens, resin embellishments and some tiny sequins completed the composition! And they gave the very atmosphere of spring flowers.

Hope you all like it!

Happy crafting!

Supply List

Canvas

Pattern Paper: Roseate paper stack from Papericious

Corrugated sheet: Green and white sheet from Itsy Bitsy store

Sentiment sheets: Motivational Sentiments 1 from CrafTangles

MDF cutots: door and window

Stencil: from Peek-a-Boo Designs

Texture Paste: Clear paste from CrafTangles, white paste from Papericious

Gesso: white from Sakura

Chalk paint: soft rock, bracket green and pearl pink from Papericious

Gel medium: Faber Castell

Mist: Moon shadow from Lindy's gang

Shimmer spray: Bitter lemon from Craftyscrappers, baby pink from Papericious

Metallic wax: copper blaze from Little Birdie

Handmade flowers, Metal charms, half sparkly drops and tiny green sequins from my stash

https://mixedmediaplace.blogspot.com/2022/08/2nd-2022-quarterly-challenge-with-prizes.html- inspired by browns and pinks

A little Birdie told me......

Hello to all!

Happy Thursday!

I love this sweet bird from the stamp set, so adorable! And I decided to use the leftovers of my designer papers too.

I stamped the bird image on a piece of white CS and watercolored it with liquid colors.

Fussy cut the bird with branches and blooms and colored white cutting edge with blue color.

On a stitched rectangle die panel I placed my plaid stencil and applied unicorn dreams texture paste.

Look up the close up view, so gorgeous!

I placed the bird on a checkered blue boxed PP with pop up dots.

Placed the sentiment in the brown strip.

I really love and adore this plaid pattern texture, so perfect for any occasion. All I really needed to add some droplets and I have a super pretty Birthday card!

Happy crafting!

Supply List

Cardstocks: Snippets of Whisper White, Khaki brown CS 

Pattern Paper: Checkered box PP in Blue from my stash

Stamp: Sweet Tweet set from Itsy Bitsy

Dies: Stitched layered circles from Memory Box and Stitched nested rectangles from Itsy Bitsy

Stencil: Plaid from Craftangles

Liquid Watercolors: lemon tart, oh fudge, moss green, evergreen, poolside from Craftangles

Texture Paste: Unicorn Dreams from Craftangles

Archival Ink: Jet black

Water droplets from my stash

Would love to join these fun challenges:

http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/2022/04/week-673-i-spy-something-beginning-with.html

https://pixiessnippetsplayground.blogspot.com/2022/04/challenge-426.html

https://timeoutchallenges.blogspot.com/2022/04/challenge-212-spring.html

https://kaartjes-inspiratie-challenges-blog.blogspot.com/2022/04/kic-start-uitdaging-166-bloemen-op-je.html

https://inspirationstationchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/04/inspiration-station-28-april-showers.html- Inspired by yellow color boots, blue dress and April showers bring May flowers, water droplets

Butterfly in the field of wildflowers in vintage art journaling style!

 Hello to all!

Happy Thursday!

It was a day of resplendently brilliant sunshine 

I walked through gardens full of colorful wildflowers

which in their humbleness opened up and smiled at me

I trod very carefully not to step on them 

but being so sturdy they would surely rise up again.

A tiny butterfly with wings of lace fluttered by

pretty butterfly unafraid of me it was just living

enjoying sipping nectar from the tiny wildflowers

blithely flitting along in the balmy light zephyr wind.

I found there is beauty in every story 

and learned a lesson not to be afraid of living life

and letting it lead you

it will take you just where you're supposed to be.....

 "May your life be like a wildflower, growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day."

- Native American Proverb.

Woohoo! I am a winner here:

https://butterflyspotchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/04/winners-168.html

https://www.morethanwordschallenge.com/2022/04/announcing-our-march-2022-winners.html

So here is my attempt at this vintage style card........ 

I started with a watercolor floral element sheet and applied some liquid watercolors with my brush on the white panel.

In the centre of this panel added a vintage butterfly journalling sticker.

some old newspaper script were added here and there.

I applied a clear gloss texture paste using argyle stencil and quickly spread some diamond dust before drying.

Look at the glaze of shiny gloss accent on my butterfly with diamond dust, love the result!

I added liquid watercolors to my wildflowers and leaves.

Die-cut a stitched rectangle frame from a white Cs and once again from a white foam sheet. And adhered that focal panel to my white card base.

Added a sentiment sheet with a sticker word story on it.

Love the sheen touch of diamond dust to argyle patterns.

Finished it off by adding a wooden butterfly with a silver thread knotted &some wooden beads too, Added a crystal butterfly pin too with some water droplets to enhance the beauty of this nature story!

Hoping you enjoyed the process!

Happy crafting!

Supply List

Cardstocks: Whisper White CS

Element pack: watercolor florals 2 from CrafTangles

stamp: an old newspaper from CrafTangles

Stencil: Argyle from CrafTangles

Dies: Leaves &flowers9 set of 5), leaves( set of 4) from CrafTangles; double stitched rectangles from Peek-a-boo designs

Journalling stickers: vintage butterflies from CrafTangles

Sentiment sheet: Motivational sentiments 2 from CrafTangles

Transparent sticker sheet: Journal words 1 from CrafTangles

Clear Texture Paste: gloss from CrafTangles

Liquid watercolors: vibrant violet, coffee mocha, shooting star from CrafTangles

Archival ink: jet black

Liquid Distress ink: peacock feathers

Glossy accents

silver thread, diamond dust, water droplets and wooden beads are from my stash

Wooden Butterfly &Butterfly pin (prize given by Mrs A)

Would love to join these fun challenges:

https://butterflyspotchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/03/168-spin-butterfly-wheel-with-l-for.html- lavender, lettuce, lake blue and butterfly

http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/2022/03/week-668-feminine.html

https://www.morethanwordschallenge.com/2022/03/march-2022-mini-challenge-story.html

https://www.hndmd.com/articles/craftangles-monthly-challenge-2022-march/- flowers

https://alessandrasangels.blogspot.com/2022/03/challenge-56-and-winner-of-challenge-55.html