Grungy Bees

Hello!

I spent a bit of time over the weekend playing with stencils, greyboard, mdf, inks and sprays to create this canvas:

I had lasercut some honeycomb from greyboard and adhered random pieces of it to the opposite corners of the canvas before painting it with some rust effect paint from Cosmic Shimmer.  I adhered some Tim Holtz tissue paper to the canvas with Indigoblu's Slap It On.  I then sprayed through my honeycomb stencil with Fossilised Amber distress spray and allowed some drips to run down like honey.  I used my bee stencil with black and gold acrylic paints and used my messy dots stencil with black and gold paint to add further detail.  I also used some stamps from Uniko, AALL and Create and Indigoblu.  I painted some mdf bees with crackle paste and then added black acrylic paint and pebeo gilding wax.  I added glossy accents to them too.  Finally I used a fab sentiment die from Stamplorations, stacked it up, added some gilding wax and glossy accents.  

I often struggle to know when a canvas is finished...particularly as it is a departure from my CAS designs!

I shall link up at Country View Crafts where this month's challenge is the written word and at Happy Little Stampers Mixed Media Challenge for a second time where the theme is layers.

I hope you like this.  It was great fun to put together and use some of my stencils and mdf.

Thanks for stopping by!

Sarah x

Powerful Lion

Hello,

I am back with another card made using my geometric lion stencil.  I used alcohol inks on my gelli plate using the technique shared by Barbara Gray on YouTube.

I added some archival inks to the lion to create further depth and also randomly inked parts of my Messy Dots stencil around the edges to add to the mottled effect.

I shall link this card up at Inkspirational where the word prompt is Power as, obviously, a lion is very powerful :)  I shall also link up at the Mixed Media challenge over at Happy Little Stampers where the June challenge is layers.

You can find the stencils that I have used on this design in my Folksy shop.

Thanks for stopping by,

Sarah x