Friday, April 25, 2014

Dreamweaver and Stampendous: Final Dream-Pendous Day!


Welcome to another "Dream-Pendous" week of inspiration! The Stampendous team and the Dreamweaver team are collaborating once again with all the fun toys in both team's arsenal. Of course, as usual, there will be great prizes available for those who comment throughout this week. In face there will be three prize packages available to win. Each will have a great selection of Dreamweaver Stencils and Stampendous images and dies...one of which being the new "Blossom Beauty" face image as shown on the badge above.



Here is my creation for today:

Pam here again! I've had so much fun this week creating for both my blog and the Dream It Up! blog, and today's creation is no exception. So, let's get to it!

I covered the white canvas front and back with a coating of Beacon Fast Finish Decoupage, which was quickly dry. On the back, I traced a square and used my craft knife and a metal edge to cut out the square shape, turning my canvas into a frame.

I squirted a mix of inks and paints onto my Stampendous Creative Palette, blended them a bit, spritzed them with water, and placed my canvas on top...smooshing it a bit before placing it face up and blotting excess paint and ink away. I spritzed the surface with some rubbing alcohol, which caused the colors to move a bit, and left it to dry.

Using the Dreamweaver Nouveau Wisteria stencil, I mixed acrylic paints and stenciled color onto the canvas. I used my handy-dandy Picasso tool to mask off areas for more direct coloring. I also applied the paint to the Blossom stamp that comes with the Blossom Beauty, and stamped it onto the canvas. When dry, I brushed some watered down paint over it.

Now I paste-embossed the Egrets stencil in Glossy White onto the canvas. (Hint...as the center of the canvas has no support, I placed a large acrylic block under it.) Once this was dry, I used the watered down paint once again to shade the background around the birds and make them stand out a bit more.

I mounted a section of cork paper on chipboard, and stamped it with the Stampendous Blossom Beauty face in black. I placed the Dreamweaver Leafy Branch over the surface and ink stenciled it using Rich Cocoa Memento ink. I painted a bit of detail on the facial features and set it aside.

The Wander Lost stamp from Stampendous was stamped with purple ink onto the frame. The face panel was adhered from behind the canvas, and the project was complete!



Please visit the team's players for our final day, and leave comments as you go!

37 comments:

Anonymous said...

That is a very cool canvas! Thanks for sharing the process for creating it!

~Shery

TracyM #6773 said...

GORGEOUS canvas "frame", LOVE the colours and MAGICAL designs!!!
LOVE your cork Blossom Beauty, what a STUNNING effect on the cork, the leaves and POP of colour for the eyes & lips is PERFECT!!!
THANK YOU for sharing your tutorial and CREATIVE INSPIRATION - I have learnt such a lot during this week and look forward to trying many of the projects shared :)

Eileen L. said...

What a unique design. Wow on cork that is amazing, beautiful.

Glass Daisy said...

The week just gets better and better. Lovely.

Lyn Bernatovich said...

Love this entire project Pam! The canvas frame is to die for with all its beautiful colors and stenciled images...gorgeous. Using cork for Blossom is a unique idea and makes her look even more mysterious!

Glass Daisy said...

If I have missed anyone out I am sorry. Thank you all so much for sharing your tremendous talent. I have so enjoyed this week. My very own art gallery lols. I love all your efforts and they have truly brightened my day. Thank you. xx

KT Fit Kitty said...

Beautiful creation - I love how you did the face! I have been enjoying your blog hop this week!

Sue D said...

Very pretty colors on the canvas frame and I like the use of cork.
Sue in Ohio

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Anonymous said...

Love the framing!

Anonymous said...

Very pretty. so many different elements - the leaves, the cranes, the beautiful face. Love it.

KT Fit Kitty said...

Made it through the entire hop! Lots of inspiration - thank you so much!

Kailash said...

Stunning project!!!

Yolanda said...

Fabulous!!!

Jan Castle said...

This is such an interesting project....love the background with the flowers and cranes.....and the leaves on the face!
Jan

barbara macaskill said...

This is really cool! I love the face!! TFS!

Gerrina said...

Love the contrast you made! Both the background and the girl look stunning this way!

Carolina Kathy said...

Love your canvas! Have enjoyed all the tremendous talent by everyone this week!

Teresa Godines #6857 said...

Love the designs on the frame. Awesome card. TFS

Stampendous said...

This is so cool, and unusual and calm and soothing. What a lovely canvas, and the cork is just fantastic! Thanks so much for sharing this lovely example of our products!

Unknown said...

What a beauty.
I want that stamp!

Jean said...

This has been an inspiring week full of wonderful projects! So many techniques I want to try. Thanks for a wonderful hop!

Judy said...

Very unique project. Thanks for sharing with us.

Aileen said...

So beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

Jade said...

This is a gorgeous canvas with the wisteria, Blossom Beauty, and egrets. I love the way you made the egrets stand out. So inspiring!

Heather said...

Very interesting the two contrasting colors. Eye catching.

Greta said...

Just amazing!

Viki Banaszak said...

A very cool project!

Miriam Prantner said...

Great piece! I love the contrast between the frame and the face, really makes them both stand out. I've thoroughly enjoyed this week!

Suzanne C said...

Cool effect! Love the canvas and the frame!

Robin B. said...

Wow, such a unique canvas! Thanks for the inspiration.

Katie said...

A truely wonderful and inspirational hop! I love it when you pair up with Stampendous because I learn so much. Everyone has been so creative and showed up so many different techniques and ideas. And I love this frame too, thank you for explaining how you created it. I love that wisteria stencil and the flower stamp is perfect in the corner. And the egrets are beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

Katie B.

snazzyjj said...

Love the multi layered effect and her eyes!

nightingalehoop said...

Stuff on here is great, just wish it was a little more beautiful.

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Sherry Butcher said...

Wounderful, love the project and thanks for sharing.

Con said...

Pinned! great...thanks, -con

Chesley said...

Very nice! I love that hanging flower stencil!

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