Step Off the Path ~ Mixed Media Canvas

Hi there! It's Bonnie here today sharing a little 5x7" mixed media I created to feature this sweet Dina Wakley Scribbly Birds. I stamped the birds onto white mixed media paper using Jet Black Archival ink. Then I spritzed my water colours and painted in some base colour and shading to give me that washy look I wanted. The birds were then fussy cut leaving a narrow white border for contrast. Foam tape was placed on the backs of the birds and they were set aside.

The pre-gessoed canvas board was sponged with three colours of Fresco Finish ( Claret, Cotton Candy, and Blush) working wet on wet and applying the paint with a piece of Cut n Dry foam. Once dry, white gesso was pounced through Prima's Stone Wall III stencil. Magenta Archival ink was sponged through Dina Wakley's plastic mesh stencil. Old book pages from Michelle Hill's Vintage Ephemera bundle was torn and  adhered to the canvas with gel medium. More white gesso was spread across the background including the text using both a brush and my finger.

Tangerine Gelato was used to edge the canvas and was spread with a dry finger. Black embossing paste was added to the canvas through TCW's Mini Texturized stencil. Extra texture and pattern were added by randomly and imperfectly stamping a TH script stamp using Jet Black Archival ink. Pieces of cork ribbon were added to the base to ground the birds and to the top left to carry the cork through the piece.

Party hats were cut from yellow scraps of designer paper and small colourful circles were punched and added to make them more fun. The sentiment, from Studio 490 Seriously Art set, was stamped with Jet Black onto mixed media paper, cut out with a Spellbinders die, and inked with Spiced Marmalade and Picked Raspberry Distress inks. The same inks were used on a chipboard heart. Punched semi-circles were adhered to both sides of the canvas and black enamel dots were added to the cork bits. To complete the piece, black doodling was added as well as Black Big Brush pen on the edges.

The party birds and I thank you for hanging out with us today. Hope we made you smile!
Bonnie

Archival Ink - Jet Black Ink Pad	Scotch Foam Mounting Tape	Dina Wakley - White Gesso - 2 oz.	Dina Wakley - Gel Medium - 2oz.
Wendy Vecchi - Studio 490 - Embossing Paste - Black	PaperArtsy - Fresco Finish Acrylic Paint - Claret (Translucent)	PaperArtsy - Fresco Finish Acrylic Paint - Blush (Semi-Opaque)	PaperArtsy - Fresco Finish Acrylic Paint - Candy Floss (Opaque)
Vintage Paper Ephemera Bundles	Prima - 6x6 inch Stencil - Stone Wall III	TCW - Mini Texturized 6x6 Stencil	Ranger - Cut n′ Dry Foam Pads
Faber Castell - Gelatos - Yellow Colors	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Reinker - Spiced Marmalade	Distress Ink Pad - Picked Raspberry	Faber Castell - Big Brush Pen - Black

Water color Flower Maiden

Hi there, eP fans!  It's Broni here with you today, and  I thought I'd show you how I created my water colored Flower Maiden.

 The Flower Maiden is a digital image (from A Day For Daisies) and I printed her onto a 6 x 8 piece of watercolor paper that had already been colored using Distress inks.  It had been in my stash for weeks, and I'd stared at it long enough trying to decide what to do with it!  I loved the soft colors and thought it would work with her!

After I printed her, I added some Titanium White paint mixed with some clear gesso around her to soften the background and make her pop a little more.

Next I painted her and added some soft blue to the background.  I also added some highlights using my white gelly roll pen.

I used the same white gelly roll pen and my Studio 490 Hearts stencil to surround her with the large heart.  Then I mixed some of the Titanium White paint with some Glazing Acrylic Fluid Medium and began to paint from the heart outline out towards the background, allowing the paint to fade out as I pulled.  This made the "halo" of the heart shimmery!

Next I used the same technique and drew bricks around her using the white gelly roll pen and the Studio 490 Brick Wall stencil.  I also added a very faint pencil line inside the heart and the bricks to make them stand out from the background more.

 I added the great sentiment from a donna downey stamp set using Memento Gray Flannel ink.

 And here are a couple of close ups.

And the full painting again.

I haven't decided if I'll attach this to a canvas or not yet.  Probably though.  I love it and I think I want it hanging over my desk!

Thanks so much for stopping in for a visit!

You know there's still time to join in this month's ePlay challenge: Fall!  Come play with us!

Happy crafting!

Ranger - Watercolor Paper 8.5"x11"	Claudine Hellmuth Artist Brushes	eP Golden - 1 oz Fluid Acrylic - Titanium White	Liquitex Acrylic Clear Gesso
eP Liquitex Glazing Acrylic Fluid Medium	eP Gelly Roll Glaze Pen (2 pk) White	Studio 490 - Never Enough Hearts Stencil	Studio 490 - Brick Wall Stencil
Memento Gray Flannel

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Wait and See ~ Art Journal page

Hi Everyone. It's Bonnie here today with an art journal page to share. I've been playing around lately with leaving white on my art journal spreads because it's something that really stretches my comfort zone. I am a colour gal through and through so I tend to feel uncomfortable leaving large expanses of white on the background. Just to shake things up, I've been consciously trying to do that now and again.

I began by spraying Patience and Glorious Art Anthology Colorations Sprays onto my ungessoed page, spritzing water on top. I added more water with a brush and began to splash, flick, and drip from the puddles. I love how the pink and yellow created a third colour, orange...so pretty.

Out came the stencils! I used Studio 490 Black Embossing Paste through TCW Mini Harlequin Circles and Bingo stencils. Fresco Finish Beach Hut and Inky pool  were pounced through TCW's Tile Texture stencil. White gesso was pounced through TCW's Mini Texturized stencil over the more solid sprayed area. Black gesso was used to create lines with the edge of a gift card and more was scraped onto the page edges.

Some torn dictionary paper from the Michelle Hill Ephemera Pack was layered onto the page using matte medium. White gesso was spread over the text with my finger to knock it back. Beach Hut was spread over the top of the dried gesso. Washi tape was torn and layered over the text as well, More Beach Hut was pounced through the circles from the Harlequin stencil. Once dry, black doodling and white dots were doodled onto those.

A flower was cut from designer paper, matted in black, and given a center created with Crafty Individuals Imagine stamp. A little colour was added to the sweet face with Prismacolor pencils.Doodling was added to the flower to separate the petals. White gesso and Autumn Fire Fresco Finish were scuffed onto a few petals to bring in more of the other colours from the background and add my own mark to the flower. To create the stem, Art Anthology Pesto spray was spritzed onto the craft sheet, picked up with a wet brush, and dripped onto the page where the flower would sit.

The page was finished black doodling, edging the pages with Black Soot Distress ink, and Black Big Brush pen. Three black cardstock inchies were punched and given white doodled words before being popped up on foam tape. The flower was also popped up on foam tape and a sliver of a punched black circle was added to the top text along with small punched circles.

Thanks for dropping by today. This is another project which would fit the current ePlay Challenge, Embossing. Have you entered yet? You still have twelve days to play along...hope to see you there.

Bonnie
Here are links to  products used from the eclectic Paperie store:

Art Anthology - Coloration Color Spray - Glorious	Art Anthology - Coloration Color Spray - Patience	Art Anthology - Coloration Color Spray - Pesto	Dina Wakley - White Gesso - 2 oz.
Dina Wakley - Black Gesso - 2 oz.	Dina Wakley - Gel Medium - 2oz.	Wendy Vecchi - Studio 490 - Embossing Paste - Black	TCW - 6x6" Stencil - Harlequin Circles
TCW - Mini Texturized 6x6 Stencil	Vintage Paper Ephemera Bundles	PaperArtsy - Fresco Finish Acrylic Paint - Beach Hut (Translucent)	PaperArtsy - Fresco Finish Acrylic Paint - Inky Pool (Translucent)
PaperArtsy - Fresco Finish Acrylic Paint - Tango (Translucent)	Uni-Ball White Gel Pen	Faber Castell - Big Brush Pen - Black	Distress Ink Pad - Black Soot