Wonder

I submitted this canvas project for last week's Swirlydoos Design Team challenge. Our challenge was to create a dimensional canvas project using a variety of mediums.

I started by painting a background using watercolors. Then I used a stencil and modelling paste to create the butterflies, which I then painted with glimmer watercolors. I misted the canvas with pearl Glimmer Mist and added some vintage paper scraps as a base for my photo. I added some white gesso to the paper to mute the colors even more.

I added a layer of tea dyed cheesecloth and vintage tulle trim beneath my photo of Lily Munchkin frolicking in the sand.

I used a large swirl from Dusty Attic as a frame for the photo. I painted and inked the swirl and added Diamond Dust glitter here and there along with some tiny flowers.
  
Unfortunately, I won't be continuing on in the challenge, but I had fun creating!
  

Believing

I made another altered hanging. This one was purely by accident. I started by painting a piece of watercolor paper that I intended to cut up and use in an altered book I've been working on. Once the piece was dry, I couldn't bring myself to cut it up, so I decided to use it as the background to something. It looked perfect for a fairyland sky, so that's what I dreamed up.

First, I distressed and painted a piece of cardboard and mounted the watercolor paper to this to give it a sturdy background.

I went through my scraps of paper and made a little house for the fairies. I cut the fairies from Graphic 45 paper. Then I started layering on the embellishments.

I tucked a flower here, a stamped bird there, and a flutter of butterflies that look like they're leaving the chimney.

I added a layer of paper and trim to the top-right as a background for the Tim Holtz Ornate Plate that frames the title "Home Sweet Home."



I added a couple of sticks to the top along with a dyed seam binding hanger and scrap of tulle. I had so much fun with my watercolors; I am definitely going to paint some more!