New Design Team!

There's a new challenge in town all about flowers called Beautiful Blossoms!

 

As a member of the design team for this new challenge I was given an inspirational board for an optional jumping off point. Love the blues and browns:

I knew I wanted to make a home decor piece. I had an idea of a vintage brownish background with pretty blue flowers. This is a piece I made years ago - completely inspired from Vicky Papaioannou, a YouTube artist I follow faithfully for her art journaling style. I thought I would do a 2023 updated version of it.

It's hard for me to tell you what I used to create my home decor piece for I just kept adding and adding, taking away and adding until I was happy with the colors. I kind of think that is how mixed media works. At the end of my blog I will just post the products I used, with the links, if you are interested in trying this yourself!

My base is a canvas covered with print which I purchased from Michael's years ago. I have a whole bag of them all different sizes. They were about $.50 each, so I couldn't resist! On my original, I had added the Tim Holtz tissue paper printed with music and butterflies, but for today's work it was already there.

I did cover all the sides with the same mixed media, but the back is open and didn't need be done.

The flowers were covered with the Milky Way Stencil from A Colorful Life Designs and Lawn Fawn Stencil Paste Gold - you can see some of the texture here:

Lots of finger painting and fussy cutting!

We have had a very concerning medical diagnosis in the family over Christmas this year and I felt the word for the year is "hope".

Please come, visit and play along with the new challenge - Anything Goes Flowers!

Here are the products I used in no particular order:

1) Penny Black Stamp: Divine

2) A Colorful Life Designs Stencil - Milky Way (AnitaFan10 for 10% off your entire order! (excluding bundles))

3) Ranger Ink Distress Ink and Stain: Uncharted Mariner

4) Ranger Ink: Distress Crayons Peacock Feathers and Mermaid Lagoon (Set #1)

5) Ranger Ink: Dylusions Paint: White, Green, Yellow

6) Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Pens

7) Ranger Ink: Diane Wakely Media Kraft Paper

8) Lawn Fawn Stencil Paste Gold 

9) Krylon All Purpose Spray Adhesive   (for beads)

10) Ranger Ink Distress Collage Medium

11) Trinity Stamps - Found My Marbles, Tiny Bead Mix (Retired)

*Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, I will receive a small affiliate commission at no extra cost to you. All opinions remain my own.