HI! Thanks for stopping by! Today I have a Big Canvas 10x20 to show you!

Starting off I took Finnabair Rust Effect Paste and layered it through a stencil until I got the color Combo to look rusted.

Next I took My Rice paper from Stamperia and fussy cut the dress form,I kept the trimmimgs from the paper. I traced the dress onto chipboard and cut that to size also, giving the dress some sturdiness.

Here You see I add the trimmings of left over rice paper with soft gel medium and trace the outline of the dress to canvas so I know my focal point!

I added stencil with Brown Archival ink and some stamping with black archival, This helps blend the rice paper into the background.

I added a few spritzes of Lindy's gang sprays in (Merci Beaucoup Mint) I add extra cardboard to the back of the dress so it sits higher up on the canvas, I'm playing around with the postion of all my bobs and bits.

After figuring out my composition I give everything a layer of Black gesso and  glue down with heavy gel medium

I take rust paste and also the turquoise paste from the Norther Lights Texture fantasy set and add it to all my embellishments.

Next I add all my finishing touches Prills in (Aqua Net) Tim Holtz (story sticks) Finnabair Vintage Melange art pebbles, and Finnabair waxes in (Vintage Gold) and (Bronze Age). Thats It! hope you like it! X0x0

Heart Of Thorns!

Today I bring you My Heart of Thorns Canvas! I really had fun making this one and it now resides on                                        my living room wall!

Oh, Did I mention I meant a real heart? LOL I love it!

I got out all my Grunge looking embellishments, and cut up a cracker box to make a smaller box to be centered in the middle of the canvas

I used Dina Wakley Media White Gesso to cover the box.

After the gesso dried I used Finnabairs White Crackle paste to add some texture to the box

Adding more gesso to all my chosen embellishments

my resin heart I just used some plain old red acrylic paint dried  it and used watered down black acrylic over top and blotted off. I just kept adding black and blotting off until I liked the outcome.

another pic of my loved heart!

Now for the canvas! I crinkled up some gold tissue paper and attached it with Mod Podge.

I took more white gesso and did a heavy dry brush on it.

Here I'm starting To add My embellishments using Heavy body gel.

Now I'm lightly adding my color I used Lindy's Stamp Gang Sprays in Rusty Lantern Lime,

Screamin Banshee Black, Shabby Turbine Teal, and Steampunk Sepia. Also Prima Color Bloom in Glistening Waves. I sprayed my canvas down with water added my colors and blot with a baby wipe until I got what I was looking for.

Up close look of that Crackle past effect! love it

used heavy gel to add my pipes and hearts, I'm also using watered down Finnabairs rust pastes to add around the edges off some of the pieces.

I used watered down gesso to splatter white all over, This is one of my favorite techniques!

I also added Nuvo Crystal drops  and some gold texture paste with a stencil as an after thought.

And it's all done! Hope you enjoyed it! I will add links to some of the product I used down below. Until next time!

Nuvo Crystal Drops

Finnabair Crackle Paste 

Fab Scraps Barbed wire chippies

Creative embellishments Wings

Finnabair Rust Paste

Finnabair Heavy gel

Mixed Media Dragonfly Canvas!

Happy Tuesday everyone! I got some more studio time last night after dinner, I bought the Tim Holtz bigs dragonfly die a while back and decided to compose something with that.

I started out with a 10x10 canvas,I stenciled Modeling paste through three different stencils. Crafters Workshop Mini Art Is stencil,Crafters Workshop Mini Time Travel stencil and one of Dyan Reavely's Arrows stencils.

Black lace tulle! So pretty huh?

Now grabbing all my embellishments I gave them a layer of black gesso

Here you see I covered my fully dry canvas with black gesso. Using that pretty black lace tulle and some gel medium I secured it down. I also ripped cardboard and did the same thing with that. Now we have a nice base to work on!

with more gel medium I'm adding all my embellishments

Here is the center piece! My dragonfly! I used my sizzix to cut it out and used a wooden arrow from my stash, using some jute twine I rapped the arrow till I was satisfied and glued it down on top of the dragonfly to appear as the body.

I decided on Lindy's Stamp gang sprays, Shabby Turbine Teal, Rusty Lantern Lime, and Steampunk Sepia. I was going for a dark grungy look and knew these would be perfect on the black gesso!

This is with just the Steampunk Sepia spray, Can you see the subtle shine?

After adding the other two colors 

Here is the wax I use to give it some highlights. Finnabair Art Alchemy Metallique wax in Vintage Gold, Made by Prima.

I took the wax spread some on my hand and used it as my pallet, adding it to just the very top of the embellishments. I also watered down some white gesso and splattered it in the center of the canvas. 

Annnd I'm calling it DONE! 

Have An Awesome rest of the day and thank you for stopping by!

-Nicole