Butterly Scene /Art Journal

Happy Wednesday!!

Are you ready for some art journal inspiration??

I used Deco Art Media Fluid Acrylics and Rebecca Baer stencil Enchanted Vine-LG. 
I always gesso my pages before I start my page.The fluid acrylics are used sparingly.  One drop goes a long way!  I used my fingers to rub it around my page.I laid the stencil down and did additional rubbing of paint in the stencil after freehand sketching the butterfly in. I wanted to be sure the main stenciling was done around the butterfly.

 I painted several coats of the fluid acrylics on the butterly.  The carbon black covers extremely well!
To finish it up-I painted in all the white parts.

 I hope you'll try the stencils in your journals or canvas projects! They have lots of good details.
Thanks for stopping by!

Deco Art Products Used:
Interference Violet and Green
Glazing Mediums
Cadmium Red Hue
Viridian
Dioxazine Purple
Quinacridone Magenta
Diarylide Yellow
Vermillion
Carbon Black
White

Mother's Day Mixed Media/Layered card

Mother's Day is just a couple of weeks away.

Time to get busy!!

I started with a gelli plate background. Used Rebecca Baer Stencil 

Used Colored pencils on a Unity Stamp-Eloise Girl and added her.

Then embellished with Wild Orchid flowers.

  Entering the following challenge:

Layered Graduation Mixed Media Cards

Been working on graduation cards.

Bassett High School colors are orange and blue.

This first card I cut the 2016 out from black cardstock (using Cricut) and layered the blue behind it.

Then added layers and layers of stars (cut with Cricut)

For finishing touches-added glitter glue to the stars that were raised with dimensional's.

 

 I used my Cricut for cutting out this boat/wave.  This young man is going on a cruise for his graduation present!!

 I was inspired from Pintrerst for this card design.  I did add some bling though!  I dry embossed the blue and ran the orange strip thru the Big Shot with Swiss Dot folder.

 Entering the follow challenge:
Mixed Media Monthly Challenge #23

 

 

Faith/Hope/Love Mixed Media Canvas

I am super excited to share my first post as a Design Team member for Rebecca Baer!!

I've used several of her beautiful stencils on this mixed media canvas along with her specially designed stenciler brush.

 I started out with a 16x20 canvas that I paint with lots of white and burnt umber tones. I divided the canvas into rectangles using washi tape and painters tape and painted solid blocks of red and brown.

 Then I got out my stencils! Today I've combined four different stencils using the stenciler.

 As I moved the stencils around the canvas, only using sections of some of the stencils, but the whole stencil in some areas, I repeated the main colors. Some area were overlapped with multiple stencils. Some area after the paint had dried, I added some Metallic Lustre in matching colors in random areas.
Rebecca's Stenciler does such an awesome job allowing you get get a crisp image from the stencil.

 Once I was happy with my layout, I used some background stencils from my stash with some Black Archival ink and dabbed in random areas. This is how you start bringing the whole canvas together. I even did some dabbing with bubble wrap and white paint.

 After deciding what inspirational words I'd use, I cut Faith, Hope and Love with my Cricut. To add more dimension and variety, I used the negative to do more stenciling with white paint on top of the words.

 I attached the cut out words with Matte Medium. Went around the letters with burnt umber and black to highlight them. To tone down the white paper, I painted on top of the words with a mix of white paint and Rose Gold Metallic Lustre.

 I'm already displaying my finished piece on my mantle! I love how it turned out.  I hope you'll be inspired to layer your stencils and mix them up!

Rebecca Baer Stencils Used:
Dragonfly Fantasy/Large
Flights of Fancy/Large
Paisley Garden/small
Jamboree/small

Deco Art Products:
Traditions Acrylic Paint
Burnt Umber
Yellow Oxide
Hansa Yellow Medium
Titanium White
Blue Grey
Natphrhol Red

Metallic Lustre
Rose Gold
Orange Flicker
Iced Expresso
Radiant Red

Americana Acrylic Sealer/gloss
Matte Medium