Imagine...Escape!

Hi there!

TGIF...yeah!  I was so happy to see the end of this week!  Every time I think I can't handle my job anymore the next day is completely different.  I pray to the good Lord and tell him to keep me there if that's where I am to be, but I wonder why does he keep testing me like that?  lol  Whew, I guess He's really trying to teach me patience!:-)  Anyways, how are you doing?  Did you have a great week?

Yesterday evening I took a bike ride and let my mind soak in the nature around me.  I knew how I wanted to use the challenge colors of blue, purple and green for the challenge over at A Mixed Media Color Challenge.  I wasn't sure on the rest of the project, but I think it came together much better than my first project that I attempted with this color challenge.  Here is my first attempt at this week's challenge...

 

The more I looked at it the more I disliked it.  So, maybe I'll save bits and pieces from it for a future project. :-)

 

Here is the lovely inspiration photo we were to follow for this week...

 

 

 

But, anyways, back to my final project for the challenge I received "happy mail"  and got to work with my new gelatos.  The vibrant color is just amazing!  You can see it with the blue and purple on the background and flowers.  It goes on like a crayon, but when you add water it turns into smooth bright color!

 

 

I began with a cardboard base for my wall hanging and painted it light blue.  I applied the gelato and added water.  I then used a brush to smooth out the paint for the background.  I sprayed turquoise perfect pearls mist.  I let it dry and stamped a Tim Holtz stamp, which looks like chicken wire against the background.  Burlap was added for the grass.  The flowers were painted with light blue paint and gelatos added.  Stickles and pearls for the final touch on them.  The leaves were painted with sour apple paint sprayed with Forever Green perfect pearls mist and stickles added.  I stamped the word Escape onto Simple Stories paper.  A little clothes pin was painted light blue to hold it in place.  A Tim Holtz metal tag with the word imagine was placed with a safety pin.  The theme that I was thinking for this project was that I love to imagine escaping to nature for relaxation either it be around my house or on vacation.  The wooden butterflies and main flower were painted the same as the wooden flowers with a BoBunny gem flourish.  I mixed modeling paste with light blue paint and used  a MFT stencil to border the project.  Clouds were fussy cut and white crackle paint and stickles were applied.  A little sun was punched to peek out from behind the cloud.  Dragonflies were added to the background.  And, buttons placed for the final touch.  This project was very time consuming and messy.  I was thinking I really need a sink in my craft room...lol!  But, I had lots of fun and after a long difficult work week, it did me a world of good! 

 

Thank you for stopping by here today!  I really appreciate it...hugs!

 

Supplies:

 

Paper:  Simple Stories(I {Heart} Summer

Stencil:  MFT

Paint:  Cloudless, Sour Apple (Americana)

Faber-Castell:  Gelatos(blue)

Perfect Pearls Mist:  Turquoise, Forever Green

Modeling Paste

Distress Crackle Paint:  Picket Fence(Ranger)

Ink:  SU(Black)

Doily:  Martha Stewart

Stamp:  Sweet 'n Sassy (Dragonfly)

Stamp:  Scrappy Cat(Escape)

Wood Flowers, Butterflies:  Prima

Gem Flourish:  BoBunny

Gems:  Paper Studio

Stickles:  Ranger

Pearls:  Doodlebug

Star Punch:  McGill

Circle Punch:  EK

Clothes Pin:  Hobby Lobby

Burlap:  Paper Studio

Metal Tag:  Tim Holtz

Twine:  PTI

Buttons:  SU