STAMPlorations April Challenge

Hi there and happy Thursday to you!

I'm back with a project I made for the

STAMPlorations April Challenge: Focus on the Sentiments!

 We want to see your projects where your sentiment is

the main focus. Here's the canvas panel I made:

After a coat of gesso dried, I brayered some bright, neon acrylic paints onto my canvas.

Over that I stenciled some white paint lightly through the

Flower Stencil. Once that layer dried I brayered some more bright colors

over the white. This is how it looks so far:

Next I used one of the colors to add another layer using the

Dots All Over stencil. Once the paint dried, I doodled around all the

dots with a gold Gelly Roll pen.

You can see the gold doodling in this pic.

At this point I really liked the design, but I took that leap of faith and

covered most of it up with black paint. I used the 

Art Happens mask and pounced black acrylic paint over and around it.

I'm not very good using masks and paint, because the paint seeped under

the mask in a lot of places. No fear, I just lined up the mask and traced 

around it with the gold pen.

(Now it looks like I totally meant to do that! LOL!)

I was then compelled to add splatters all around the panel. I kept the mask

in place while I did this. 

At this point, I applied gloss varnish to the panel to seal it.

While that dried, I die cut a bunch of flowers and leaves out of bright card stock

using the Trendy Spring Blooms Cutplorations dies.

I glued the leaves and flowers to my panel, and added sequins as a finishing touch.

One more look:

I hope you find some time to join in the April challenge

at STAMPlorations. We'd love to see what you make using 

sentiments as your focal point! Don't forget there are prizes to

be had. You can read all about it on the main blog. 

Feel the need to purchase any of the items I used (or anything else) at

the STAMPlorations store? Want a discount?

Simply use the discount code

STAMPGIRLCHRIS

for 20% off!!

(this is not case sensitive, and cannot be combined with other discounts)

 

Thanks for visiting and I hope that you have a great day!

Supplies:

Substrate: US Art Supply - canvas panel

DecoArt Media - Gesso

DecoArt Americana Acrylic Paint - Scorching Yellow, Thermal Green, Sizzling Pink, Bright Orange, Purple Pizzazz, Bluegrass Green, Ebony Black, Titanium White

brayer

various paint brushes

STAMPlorations - Art Happens mask, Flower Puzzles and Dots All Over stencils

Sakura - gold Gelly Roll pen

DecoArt - Gloss Varnish

STAMPlorations - Trendy Spring Blooms CUTplorations dies

scrap card stock

Grand Calibur

Ranger - Multi Medium Matte

Darice - sequins