Love and Magic, Reverse Canvas - Green Tara

I sat down to create a lovely layout to share with you all on the weekend, and created a reverse canvas instead... as you do!  It's funny where your imagination and products will take you.  

I had collected a pack of the petals and a mix of roses, as well as some banana leaf fibre paper and that stunning piece of lace... all in those lovely seaglass, turquoise and white tones... my favourite, and then just played and ended up with another item to decorate my studio with!!

I reversed the canvas and lined it with the 12x12 Banana Leaf Fibre paper, allowing it to crumple to add texture.  I added impasto to hold the lace and add texture and also used some Opaque Flakes Medium and Diamond Dust to add sparkle and interest.  I love the effect of all these wonderful textures.

Then I adhered a few of the flat petals from the petal pack.  These are such a great quick grab item, 22 petals with different sizes, all in the some colour.  I used white here so that I could spray them with some colour.  I overlapped them and covered most of the background, leaving the fabulous banana leaf fibre to show through in places and then I sprayed with smooch spritz inks to get some amazing colour and shimmer happening. 

I tucked in some Dusty Attic Flourishes which were painted white and then covered with Fairy Dust Glitter... I love sparkle.

 

A little quote that means something to me...

 

I hung a Dusty Attic Birdcage from the lace with some rusted old necklace chain, saves to hold onto those old bits of 'junk', they come in handy!

Ahhh where would we be without the beautiful Green Tara roses!  I have used 3cm, 2cm, 1.5cm and 1cm roses in White, Mint and the new Turquoise.   Some of them were sprayed with Ice Rink Smooch Spritz to give them just the right tonings {and shimmer} to match my background.

I hand painted this little bird I had in my stash with Smooch Ink to match, she was just right sitting with the flowers!

Thanks for visiting, take care and be true to you.  Mis xo

Green Tara Products used:

Paper: 

Green Tara Banana Leaf Fibre, Moss

Flowers: 

GreenTara  Roses, 3cm Turquoise, 2cm White and Mint, 1.5cm and 1cm White

Green Tara Petal Pack, White

Lace: 

Green Tara 8.5cm Off White Lace

Other Products Used:

Chipboard: 

Dusty Attic Birdcage #5

Dusty Attic Mini Scrolls

Ink:

Clearsnap Smooch - Ocean Soul, Frosted Aqua, Pool, Mocha, Shabby Pink, Moonlight

Clearsnap Mix'd Media Inx - Jasmine, Peridot

Clearsnap Mix'd Media Inx Re-Inker - Peridot

Embossing Powder:

Ranger Antiquities - Verdigris, Rust

Colour:

Clearsnap Smooch Spritz - Ice Rink, River Mossy, Olive Vine

Mediums:

Jo Sonya Gesso - White

Liquitex White Opaque Flakes

Mont Marte Impasto

Glitter:

Clearsnap Fairy Dust Glitter - Sugar Shimmer

Twinklets Diamond Dust

Other:

Inkssentials Crackle Accents

Bird, Authentque Diction Stickers

Tools:

Heat Gun

Adhesives:

Helmar Tiger Grip

Inkssentials Glue'n'Seal

Allison Ellis Hotset Powder

A Little Dusty in Hyden

The Dusty Girls... well some of us!


 

I love this LO... the way Wave Rock in the background matches the DSD Antiquities paper so perfectly, the new Dusty Attic Cherry Blossom chippy blends perfectly with the printed, the flowers were just right... everything just happened and flowed like it was all meant to be!  Don't you love that new alpha font from Dusty Attic as well, just the right size!

The chippy here was painted white, dabbed with some stains and blended with more white paint, then smooched for a subtle colour on the cherry blossoms, and then some definition drawn in with sepia ink.

The handmade flower was cut using a Spellbinders Die, Grand Peony by Donna Salazar - these dies make flower making far too easy!  Mine still don't have that 'perfect' look, but I guess that's just me...

And I have popped on some Green Tara cherry blossoms, to match with the cherry blossom chippy!

I have used:
Dusty Attic Cherry Blossom
Dusty Attic Typewriter Font
Green Tara Cherry Blossoms
Green Tara Bows
Donna Salazar Designs Antiquities Let's Ride PP by GCD
ZVA Creative Crystal Swirls
Handmade Halo Leaf Charms
Handmade Halo Resin Bird
Prima & Kaiser Flowers
Prima Trim
Handmade Hat Pin by Tina
Carolee's Creations Alpha Stickers

Tools:
Donna Salazar Grand Peony Die by Spellbinders
Ingvild Bolme Distress Tool by Prima
DMC Thread

Mediums:
White Acrylic Paint
Tim Holtz Distress Stains
Glimmermist {Nougat}
Smooches by Clearsnap
Sepia PITT Artist Pen

Thanks for visiting, take care and

Product Links: 

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All things are possible...

...in the land of Faerie!

I love this Dusty Attic Garden Fairy DA0278... last night I wanted to play with something but had no photos that were working for me, but she called to me to be created!

I have to admit, before I went to bed last night she looked like a dodgy fairy, but there must have been some magic in the air last night because this morning she was gorgeous... and so a canvas needed to be created!

The Canvas background is mixed media, using paper offcuts and tissue paper, all glued down and then tinted with paints and mists... then a little impasto to create texture, gesso and then more mists.  I have used Glimmermists as well as Starburst Stains on this one.  The Starburst Stains have that amazing glimmer!!

These Dusty Attic Leafy Stems #3 DA0580 above and Russian Alphabet DA0522 below were both painted white, dabbed with aqua paint, spritzed with Moonshadow Pirate's Plunder Gold and then coated with dimensional magic and sprinkled with mica flakes!

The gorgeous Dusty Attic Garden Fairy was painted white first and then with Golden Titan Buff for the skin tones, Golden Raw Umber for the hair {and left thick for texture}, and with Moonglow Glitz Spritz Desert Moon Horny Toad Teal {how's that for a name}, it gave her freckles!  Her wings were 'smooched' with Smooch {by Clearnsnap} Ocean Soul, Frosted Aqua & a little Habby Pink, and lastly were backed with Textiva Fusible Film.   She was then dressed in lovely soft muslin and draped in ZVA Bling!

The canvas was trimmed with some delicious Green Tara Lace L2898OW and was coloured with the same mists used over the canvas... love this lace!!

She will look beautiful on the wall in my new scrap room {if it ever gets finished}... she's for me, all mine!!

Thanks for visiting, take care and

5 Birds on a Branch...

is just divine, so much better than one bird in the hand and definitely better than 2 in the bush!!

I am in lust with Dusty Attic's new Birds on a Branch #2... seriously could something get any cuter!! So I decided to make the whole chipboard the feature mounted onto one of the new Dusty Attic 6x6 Display Frame Sets.

Papers are from a Kaiser 6x6 Paper pad... a perfect backdrop.

The Chippy was painted in warm white paint and then smooched, the Smooches Ink is perfect for these fine chipboard shapes!

Take care of you.