Dragonflies and Cherry Blossoms

Stampendous  and Dreamweaver are hopping this week.  The hop started Monday and there are so many beautiful projects you will want to go start from the Stampendous blog and take a tour of all the blogs.  There are prizes.... all you have to do is leave comments along the way for an opportunity to win some goodies.

I have to say these two projects I made today make me want to go have them framed as I really love how they turned out.

 I started with canvas panels as the base for my projects.

I painted the center of the panels with a coat of gesso.  After the panel dried I spritzed the backgrounds with a mix of Tattered Angels Glimmer Mists and Americana DecoArt Acrylic Paints.

I let the canvases dry and then applied a coat of white embossing paste with the stencils.  I let these dry.  After they dried I added more paint/mists to give a darker pooling of color around the stenciled areas.  I also used watercolor pencils to add shading to the edges.

On my first project I stamped the flowers over the stencil using brown ink and heat embossed brown embossing powder to add more depth.   I stamped coordinating butterflies which then were cut with the new dies to attach to my canvas.

On the second canvas I stamped letters and words over the background and on my flowers and dragonfly.  I then stamped the sentiment on tissue paper which was misted to the same colors.  I heat embossed the sentiment with white embossing powder.  I decoupaged the sentiment to the canvas using the DecoArt Decoupage medium. (I love this medium it applies the tissue paper perfectly)

Products:
Stampendous - Beautiful Life, Stacked Art - Royal Heart Kit, Lovely Garden Die Cut, Lovely Garden Stamp Set,   Fuchsia,    Courage Quote,  Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist - Sun Sisters, Black Cherry, Orange, Stonewashed Blue, Americana - Yellow, White, Sienna, Versamark Watermark Ink, Stampendous White Embossing Powder, Bark Embossing Powder, 
  Dreamweaver Stencils - Cherry Blossom - LG644,  Dragonfly - LS56, Fern MaidenHair LJ846

Hop along to the Stampendous blog to see the beautiful inspiration for the week and hop over to the designers sharing their lovely art today:
 

Dream It Up!
Rhea Weigand
Laura Drahozal
Janelle Stollfus
Louise Healy
Leadonna Kimmel
Pam Hornschu
 Asia King
Cyndi Bundy

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz