Heart Be Your Compass

Hello crafty friends, Happy Easter & April's Fool!!    It's a brand new month already, that's no joke!!!  I'm excited to start this month as a Guest Designer for We Love 2 Create challenge blog.  If you like to do mixed media work, this challenge is for you.  You'll want to check out the inspiration from the other DT members...amazing.

This is my first post for today, but there will be my usually 3 post of sisters blog in a few short hours.

I created a mixed media canvas using Polkadoodles image Skys the Limit.  I purchased the bundle kit "Top Banana Winnie Celebrations Kit 2", but you can buy just the image itself.  The image will perfect for a little girl with big dreams.  In fact, I made it for a little girl in mind....who has some big dreams at a young age.  I colored the image with my Prismacolor pencils.

The first thing I did was ink the blue sky on the canvas, but I wasn't quite happy with it.  I put some scripted tissue paper over it to soften it up some and give it a dreamy look.  Next, I laid down my stencils, it okay to use the molding paste to spread here and there to give the canvas a rough and uneven look.

Next, I sponged some distress ink around the canvas and painted some soft white over some of the scripted areas.  I felt she needed some more clouds in her sky, so die cut clouds out of cardstock, became my stencil for those puffy clouds. The flakes are from an encrusted jewel kit of embossing powders and elements.

Here are a few of the items I used to create this canvas.  Even the embellishments were painted, inked, and sprayed to keep harmony.  The "Archival" spray is great to preserve those images that will be proudly displayed.  This one is made for colored pencils.

A little bit of silver paint was added here and there for shine and depth.

thanks for reading and looking :o)

I would like to enter my mixed media canvas in the following challenges:

• A Inky Mess: #19 Anything Mixed Media
• Alphabet Challenge: A= Anything But A Card
• Classic Design Team Challenge: #24 Anything Goes
• Create & Makes: #20 Anything Goes
• Dare 2B Artzy: Pastel Colors
• Mixed Media World: Anything Goes twist: Spring (facebook challenge)
• Stamping Sensations: One For the Girls
• World Wide Open DT Challenge: #3 Anything Goes

stamp: Polkadoodles: Winnie Celebration Kit 2: Skys the Limit
paper: Recollections: script tissue paper
die-cut: MFT: clouds
embellishments: STAMPlorations: bubbles stencil, Folkart: lovely floral stencil, the Paper Studio: poppies & paperie petite flowers Prima Flower, 3GJ: ribbon, Vintaj: metal dragonfly charm, Recollections: wooden bird, Bead Landing: charm (quote) & found objects (key),  Momenta: metal flower, Stampendous: frantage encrusted jewel kit: rose color fragments,   twine & buttons from stash