New Challenge with More Mixed Media Challenges!

Hi everyone!! :)

Today starts up a new challenge over at More Mixed Media Challenges! This month's challenge is to use the color "Green" on your creations. It doesn't have to be all green but we would like to see some of it on your creations. :)

I decided to make another canvas to hang up on my wall. I love creating canvas's because the world is literally at your fingertips on what you create! It's a blank canvas just waiting for you to bring it to life. So I did just that! What do you think?

So it took me roughly an hour to do this. I don't have any assigned instructions on how I did this. I just kind of went with what I was feeling and pretty much "experimented" with things. The different shades of green background with all that yummy texture is my favorite! I used all sorts of products for this.  I used the Faber Castel cements, masking tape, Clear Gesso, White Gesso, Nuvo Crystal Drops, gold leaf paste, acrylics, sand stone paste, metals, flowers, tulle, netting and some other little small details like brads and washi tape. 

Here are some more photos:

 

Really love all the texture!

I added gold leaf to the flowers and some tulle to the centers!

Love how that metal butterfly ties in with the gold~

Added some gold leafing to the flowers here too! 

See that netting in the background? I just love this stuff!!!! 

painted the white leaves a nice shade of green and added in the veins using my copic markers. Also added in a few gold leaf leaves. 

Spelled out "Serenity" using Nuvo Crystal Drops. 

Love that you can write with these!

NOT the best handwritten word but I love it!

My niece's name is Serenity and when I showed this to my mother, she said, "Oh did you make that for Serenity?" and it hadn't even crossed my mind that I chose a word that was the same as my niece's name. I just looked at it when this was complete and it looked peaceful to me. Like a place I would want to go and sit to meditate and be with nature. And the word Serenity just popped into my head. So I went with it. But now that my mom did ask me, I just may give this to my niece to hang in her bedroom. She's turning 4 this year, so I just may give this to her as a birthday gift!

Well that's it for today! Hope you liked it and that i've inspired you to create your very own canvas wall hanging! Thanks so much for stopping by today! Please stop by the More Mixed Media Challenge Blog to see what my design team sisters  have created with this happy color and link up your own creations!

Until next time~

Enjoy life's blessings~

Canvas Wall Art

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Hello my crafty friends~





     This week has been flying by for me. It has been extremely busy and I have been trying to get things ready for the new 2013-2014 school year for my daughter Gia. For my new followers, I homeschool my daughter and we are embarking on another wonderful year entering the 5th grade. Boy do I remember her being born and 5th grade already! What I enjoy the most about teaching her is the quality time and the bond we have. I wouldn't trade that in for the world!! Ok enough of my rambling on about mushy stuff LOL.

Today I have a quick canvas project to share with you that I did on Sunday evening. I was starting to feel a bit better and knew that I had missed getting creative so I sat down at my desk and the first thing that caught my eye were my Faber-Castell Gelatos. So I pulled out a 6x6 canvas block and then started to just pull stuff out and here are the supplies I ended up using.

 

I started off with a blank canvas and started with my gelatos first. I used various colors of blues/purples and gray to create a background using my fingers and some stencils, specifically circles and chevrons. From that point on, I just got very inky and messy as I pulled out some of my homemade glimmer mists and sprays from Tattered Angels. I pulled out some tickets from Tim Holtz, some die cuts from SEI and a nice manila tag and then started going to town on just creating and making an ENORMOUS mess! LOL .... so after the initial mess of spray, ink and gelatos... and some additions of charms, enamel dots, stickles, mesh, artist spackle, glaze and mod podge..

.. here is my final project.

 

 

Well that is my project for today! I really hope you enjoyed it and

thanks so much for stopping by!

Until next time.... enjoy life's blessings~

 

 

 I am entering my project in the following challenges:

 

TTCRD "Anything Goes"
Crafty Sentiments "Colourful"
Sweet Stamps "Anything Goes"
Top Tip Tuesday "Initials"
Ladybugs Crafts Ink Challenge "Photo Inspiration"

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