As many of you may know, I’ve been coloring up a lot of The Greeting Farm little fairies and girls (the ones here are Sweetie Bean and from the Magical Kit) as part of my Copic coloring tutorials series on YouTube. I thought about a variety of ways to use them, and I did make a card for one of my subbies with one of them, but I ultimately decided to try to create a mixed media spring forest canvas with them.
I didn’t want to detract from the adorable fairies (I added wings to the little ladies who didn’t have them), but I did want to create a magical scene with them so I first created a visually very textured but monochromatic bluish background with a lot of layers of sprays (letting each layer dry before spraying the next coating to get a deep rich look). I used a Heidi Swapp Color Shine Spray in Navy, DecoArt Media Shimmer Misters in White and Turquoise, a Recollections spray in Blue Shimmer and a Tattered Angels spray in Blue Icing. I love the shimmery white (sorry the shimmer was not captured in the photos) speckling/splotches that I imagine to be fairy dust or tiny fairies deeper in the forest.
Then I did a LOT of fussy cutting. And when I say a LOT, I mean a LOT! I took several sheets of the Stampin’ Up! “Inside the Lines” Designer Series Papers and fussy cut out trees, leaves, ferns, flowers, bees, dragonflies, vines, and mushrooms. I even drew a few birch tree trunks with a black Copic multiliner 0.03 pt. pen to add to the background and fussy cut those out too. Then I mapped out where all the pieces would fit onto a 12″ x 12″ canvas (I had a spare to work on while the sprayed one was drying). Once I generally liked where everything was positioned, I used some GLAD Press’n Seal kitchen wrap paper to temporarily set them in place (this was a trick I learned from Jennifer McGuire for setting die cut pieces for layered cards). I decided not to color any of these fussy cut pieces so that they wouldn’t distract or detract from the colorful fairies.
Finally, I got to the assembly, and I had so much fun, putting this all together! I glued the initial background pieces down with wet glue, and then started to pop up parts and/or full floral pieces and fairies on double sided foam adhesive or fun foam. I’m hoping to finish a second canvas (more fussy cutting tonight!) and will come back and share that tomorrow. *wink*
This canvas is being entered into the following challenges:
The Greeting Farm Farm Fresh Mixed Media Madness Challenge
Simon Says Stamp Monday Layer It Up Challenge
Fab ‘n’ Funky Flowers Challenge
Word Art Wednesday Anything Goes Challenge
Crafty Gals Corner Anything But a Card Challenge
Creatalicious Anything Goes Challenge with Optional Gems or Pearls
Through the Craft Room Door Anything Goes Challenge
613 Avenue Create Anything Goes with Optional The Rubber Room-No Digis Challenge
Crafty Purple Frog Lovely Ladies Challenge
Not Just Cards Monochrome Challenge
Wwwwoooowww :-))) Amazing card!
Thank you so much for joining our challenge at Fab’n’Funky! Good luck :-)))
Troppo Stella DT
Thank you so much Troppo Stella! I had a lot of fun creating this canvas!
VERY nice color choices on the hair – so magical!
Thanks so very much Meg! It was fun to color up all the wild hair colors.
WOWZERS!!! this is an absolute work of art….I love it!!!
All that fussy cutting must have taken an absolute age
Thank you for sharing with us at Crafty Purple Frog this month, good luck in the draw & I hope to see you again soon
Hugs Shell xx
Awww thanks so much Shell! Yep, that was a LOT of fussy cutting, but I love the results. 😀
These are really fabulous !
Thanks so much Tracy! I loved thinking up and creating them!
sooooo beautiful! Love this project! little fairies are adorable and so cute! fab work!I Thanks for joining us this week on Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog! Barbar
Awww thanks so much Barbara! I really loved creating this canvas. 🙂
Wow! Once again you’ve created a very unique and beautiful piece! Thank you so much for entering our ATG challenge at Through The Craft Room Door this week. Looking forward to see you again next challenge.
Regards,
TTCRD DT
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Thanks bunches for the super sweet words, Jeanie!
What a perfect backdrop to display all your gorgeous coloring! Thank you for joining our Farm Fresh Challenge this month at The Greeting Farm! 😀
Stunning image and gorgeous detail! Beautiful! Thank you for sharing your wonderful project atFab’n’Funky challenge. Good luck . Neva
Beautiful canvas and the fairies are just adorable. The background is just stunning and lets the images pop. Thanks for joining us at Creatalicious
Tina dt
Great canvas and love the background and little Fairies—-Thank you for joining us at 613 Avenue Create
Carol DT x
This is pretty, such sweet images.
Thank you for joining us at the Crafty Purple Frog Challenge.
Pauline – Crafting with Cotnob
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A wonderful canvas!
Thank you soo much for taking part in our “anything goes with optional gems or pearls” challenge over at Creatalicious & good luck in the draw.
Hope to see you again in our new challenge as well…
Hugs,
Melanie
(DT-Coordinator Creatalicious Challenges)
(DT Crafty Friends)
(DT The Sketchy Challenges)
PS: Sorry for the late comment, life had been very busy the past couple of weeks…
Thanks Melanie! Appreciate your kind words!