Spring Has Sprung Floral Canvas

Happy Spring crafty peeps! I hope you are having glorious weather today!

WOW! I have been honored by the gals at Our Creative Corner to be spotlighted as a winner for today's Top Talent Thursday because I've won a few of their challenges (See my side bar if you want to know which ones.). They've asked me to make a little something that they will showcase on their blog today, as well as take part in a brief question and answer session...that was the scary part. You will need to visit their blog to see what they wanted to know, but here is my project and a step out for it. I thought something Spring-y was appropriate, and I've included some "Tattered Florals", so I am submitting this to Tim's challenge as well.

 

I added Claudine Hellmuth Gesso esso to the round canvas first, adding texture, but I wish I wouldn't have, because I had problems later on with my Dylusions color really staying and popping like it should. Live and learn.

Using Wendy's Leaves and some Ranger Acrylic Paint Dabbers in Stream and Citrus, I stenciled away.

More stenciling again, but this time with Wendy's Embossing Paste and Flowers. I love this stuff! 

More Embossing Paste and more Florals, but this time with Claudine Hellmuth's flowers.

Spring is a little windy, so I stenciled in some gusts with The Crafter's Workshop Mini Capricious and Pearl Paint Dabber.

I love using Tim's new Distress Paints over Wendy's Paste. With a paint brush it's very easy, and because of the sponginess of the Paste excepting the paint so well you just don't have to be so precise, and I like that. PLUS, it's my new favorite technique...it's acts as a resist to Dyan's Dylusions Ink Sprays! Love that!

Now comes the mess and the fun...Dylusions. But, like I said above, I should not have given this gesso and my color would have adhered better. I had to spray many times. You can see the resist though.

I added some Wendy stamps with Archival to a few places among the grasses.

I stamped one of my favorite quotes onto tissue paper from Stamper's Anonymous. I adhered it the canvas with Glue N Seal, and it sort of made an inky mess, but I think I like it.

Tim's Tattered Florals Die from Sizzix was my very first die. I've used it more than any other, and it has made countless gifts...countless! So I love that he used it for this challenge. I also love that he came out with a Tattered Flower Garland Sizzlet Die last year that coordinates with this. All the Tattered Florals are on here but in mini size and with holes in the centers and leaves as well. I decided to use this too. I die cut several of each die using Tim's Melange Tissue Wrap.

I had just cleaned up my table, so in an effort to keep it that way I misted my inks onto the Tattered Florals on the paper towels. Yes, I can be lazy! I did save the towels though. I stacked these up and made a bouquet and added them to my canvas. Now I have a great 3D look.

Finding some goodies from my stash from The Girls Paperie, I used Watermelon Alcohol Ink to color them up and give them some detail a bit and used them as centers on a few of the flowers. I did some doodling on the canvas with a white pen as well.

I thought this needed a little something else, so I stamped a bee using Mustard Seed Distress Paint and Pearl Paint Dabber. I dried that and stamped it again in Jet Black Archival. I added Crackle Accents over the top. While that dried I stamped the Numbers from the same set in Snow Cap Pigment and then Aquamarine Archival on top of that. While you can see it fine in person, I just couldn't get it to show in the photographs.

 

I thought I'd see what it looked like outside while enjoying a gorgeous Spring like day. It was perfect outside. I needed a swim suit,. ice cold drink, and lounge chair!

This is Lucy, who enjoyed the sun with me as I photographed away. She is the 4th child for sure!

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I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!