In the Summertime at Country View Crafts

Hello Lovelies - well its the first of the month and time for a new challenge over at Countryview Crafts Challenges. This months challenge theme has been chosen by alison and has got me thinking about things bright and beautiful and floral. With this in mind I decided to use Paperartsy goodies all from countryviewcrafts to make a canvas. I already sent this to a good friend for her birthday - hope she liked it!!!

Here's the full canvas - its around 7 inches by 18 inches - so its quite large. I started by painting the background in fresco-finish-chalk-acrylics smurf blue. Next I started to add background layers using the fresco-finish-chalk-acrylics snowflake and eclectica-paperartsy-stencil- dots, eclectica-paperartsy-stencil-elb-ps002 leaves. I added paperartsy-fresco-finish-chalk-acrylics-hey-pesto to the leaves once the white had dried.

Next I used grunge-paste through eclectica-paperartsy-stencil-elb-ps013 by Lin brown. and allowed this to dry. Then I used rubber-stamp-sheet-by-lin-brown---elb16 and rubber-stamp-sheet-by-lin-brown---elb15 to create the stems and flower heads.

I painted the leaves in the snowflake paint then added some hey pesto. The flower heads were done using paperartsy-fresco-finish-chalk-acrylics---tango. with touches of some red acrylic paint that I had to hand.

Finally I added the butterflies made using sizzix-bigz-die-wtexture-fades---butterfly-duo-by-tim-holtz. I swiped over the surface with  brown potting soil archival ink then added the orange colour using distress pens.

I would like to enter this into the paperartsy topic14-flowerschallenge

I loved making this and I hope you agree its very summery! Please join us at countryviewchallenges where the prize is a fabulous £20 to spend in store! 

Big Hugs to you!

Rachel xx