Hope

Last night I got a chance to work on the canvas that I started on a couple of days ago.  If you're a fan on FB then you've already seen a couple of sneak peeks of this piece ;D

 

Boy, let me tell you......my mojo was in full effect last night and I've very proud of this piece. 
This is a 10x10 Canvas, titled "Hope"

Ready to see this baby come together.....well then, let's get started!!

I started out by speading some gesso on with my palette knife to create some interesting texture.  At this point I had no idea what I wanted to do and it took a couple of days for me to get back to it.

I grabbed my favorite shades of blue soft body acrylics and did a little color blocking.  Then I adheared some vintage sheet music and book text in the white spaces.

The darker blue needed to be toned down a bit so I used my gesso to stencil on some clocks.  The template I used is a 6x6, Crafters Workshop.

I don't like to waste anything since supplies are so expensive so I flipperd my stencil over and used my brayer to stamp with the left over paint.

Next I toned everything down with a wash of burnt sienna fluid acrylic and started playing around with different elements.  I knew I wanted to use this stamp so I stamped her on some kraft paper, cut her out and started layering around her.  I wanted to frame her so I cut some cardboard and ripped the top layer off and gave it a light wash with white fluid acrylic.

I thought the cardboard needed a little something behind it so I found a dryer sheet and adhearded it on.  Yup....you read right, lol A DRYER sheet!!  See, you can use ANYTHING in mixed media!!

I thought these were gonna be copper embossed wings on my lady but my embossing ink was out so it didn't work out.  On to plan B: more layering behind the cardboard.  I inked them up with TH distress ink an then some paint.

Okay....if you've been visiting me for awhile now then you know that there is always a point where I stop taking pictures.  It's always towards the end of my project because  I start to get in the zone and forget to take pics, lol, but here are the finishing touches:

I used a TH stamp for my sentiment "Encourage your HOPES, not your fears" and a BoBunny flourish rubon under the roses.

The gold roses and bling are all Recollections from Michaels. 

I used my Prisma color pencils to color in my stamp a little bit. 

Well, I hope you liked this piece as much as I do!!  Let me know what you think :D

Thank you for stopping by today!!!!