My shining star

My shining star

Wednesday 5 August 2015

Flowers at Paperartsy

Hello Lovelies! How are you today? i hope you are well - thanks for your kind words about my card and my dad - he behaved himself yesterday - no sunbathing on the concrete thankfully! He's a bit battered and bruised but in good spirits!

Today I would like to share with you a canvas I have been working on for the paperartsy flower challenge - I adore paperartsy flower stamps and seem to have amassed quite a few recently - so I had to make a second entry into this challenge!


I started with a clarity 12 inch square canvas board and added a napkin covered in strawberries. I made sure there were creases  in the napkin and stuck it with deco art multi matt medium. You can't see much of the pattern because the next step involved painting with with fresco paints - I used two semi opaque ones after first covering in watered down gesso. 


Next I did some stencilling in snowflake fresco paint. I used eclectica-paperartsy-stencil-elb-ps001004paperartsy-stencil-jofy-ps007.


Then I stamped and coloured the main flowers using distress markers then fussy cut them. I used jofy32elb22elb24. for the flowers.


I hope you like this - I do!!! I then stamped coloured and added the butterflies, dragonfly and sentiment. 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:






I hope you have a great wednesday - my girls are off to mad science again - and I'm meeting my friend Julie, running then having a sports massage and then once I pick the girls up I'm off to see my friend Julia for tea and cake!!! Looking forward to that! Busy day me thinks!!!

Take care!

Hugs

Rachel xx



19 comments:

  1. Such a beautiful canvas. I love the background, gorgeous flowers and the colours are wonderful.
    I am pleased your dad is doing okay.
    Have a good day!
    hugs Sue xx

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  2. Wonderful canvas Rachel, gorgeous colours

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  3. OMG Rachel your days are always busy I don't know how you keep it up lol mind you since I finished work I marvel at the things I used to do and wonder how I found the time to work,run the house and look after three children now I have all day every day and still run out of time!!! I love the beautiful canvas and all the paperartsy flowers and great background too
    carol x

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  4. Wow the canvas is stunning Rachel with all of those gorgeous papreartsy flowers. I don't know where you find time to craft you are always so busy. Hope the run goes well and you have fun meeting up with your friends.

    Hugs Sue xx

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  5. WOW. Rachel you rock...love this and your little tutorial is inspiring to me....I must get some lovely napkins again to use as I know these are a wonderful thing to use to get good results...just look at you ...wonderful and inspiring. Thanks.xxx {aNNie The Journey Is The Start My Personal Blog}

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  6. This is fabulous! Love the gorgeous background and fabulous design.
    Hugs
    Linda xxx

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  7. Fabulous Rachel, gorgeous floral images and the colours are wonderful, hugs Kate x

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  8. Like it? I love it, I particularly love those thistle-like flowers, I really must get that stamp now! The whole canvas is just simply gorgeous... Hugs, Anne xx

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  9. It's gorgeous Rachel! I love the colours & all those pretty flowers!
    Sounds like a busy day planned for you all too!
    Hope the massage was good!
    Hugs
    Dawn xx

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  10. This is stunning Rachel, so pretty. Love all the detail you've added. Hope you've enjoyed your day. Carol x

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  11. I definitely DO like it...lots. You're working wonders with the color palettes you've been using on these canvases. I really like the dimension & texture you're achieving with the crumpled background & the flowers. The little purple pods look so very real. I can see you're having fun with this art, and it shows in the final product! So glad that your Dad is doing ok and hopefully the bruises will fade quickly. I am shuddering at the thought of running (I couldn't make it walking!) 9 miles! Great for you, you must be in terrific shape. TFS & Hugs

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  12. This is beautiful Rachel, such a gorgeous floral scene.
    Pauline
    x

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  13. A really lovely canvas Rachel. Super techniques and design.
    Mags
    x

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  14. Beautiful canvas Rachel! I love your design, the flowers are so pretty and I think the colour combo is gorgeous! Chris x

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  15. I need to win the Lotto! Love, love, love! Your canvas is fantastic Rachel Karen x

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  16. Gorgeous canvas, the flowers are beautiful! I wanted to play with PaperArtsy, but I went on vacation and time slipped away from me. Thanks so much for joining us this month at the Mixed Media Monthly Challenge.

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  17. Stunning canvas Rachel, thanks for joining in the fun at The Artistic Stamper

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  18. Gorgeous creation :)Love how you have made this,such pretty flowers,
    Best wishes,Nessa xxx

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  19. beautiful canvas! you created a lovely garden! Thank you so much for playing with the Mixed Media Monthly Challenge!

    -Rachel
    rwkrafts.com

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