LTCCB - I Give Myself Permission

Hello crafty friends!  You'll be seeing me a lot today with 3 posts.  I'm excited to be on a new adventure with Leslie with this second challenge blog.   Love to Craft! Challenge Blog, will be a month long challenge, this way you can get creative.  With this new blog challenge, we want to see whatever you are crafting up.

For this first challenge, I decided to do a project that has been sitting aside for awhile.  Kit and Clowder's Mindful Me Art Therapy Class, it is a freebie if you want to try and it has great therapeutic information with it.   There's a few pics with this project :o)

I started off with a canvas that I wrapped with tissue paper.  This will give it some texture, this was not in the class, I did my own thing with the canvas part.  I used decoupage glue and sealant for this part.

After the tissue dried overnight, lots of painting, stamping, stenciling, ink splattering, paint splattering, sprayed goosebumps, oh, and more painting to achieve this look.  I did seal it to protect these layers.  There was a lot of drying time in between layers, this is the time you use to get other projects for your canvas done or just watch it dry.

I won some chipboard from Southern Ridge Trading.  I didn't want to use the heart, but I love the little cutout design in the middle.  So, I popped them out and painted them.

After I painted them, I sprayed them with some gold pearl mist.  They will be corner pieces in my finish piece.

Here's the image.  I used the same one from the class, because I like the image.  The image is from artist Yampuff, Artist Chibi.  Even though I don't paint in a dress, I have a long button shirt that could almost be a dress and is spattered with paint.  The image is colored with my Prismacolor pencils and fussy cut out.  Since I knew I wasn't going to use my decoupage sealant on the image and quotes, I used a sealant sprayed made for color pencils.  That way the image is still protected.

Here's my finished canvas piece.  The permission quotes are typed out to what I wanted to be reminded that it's okay or I need to do.   I glued little dragonfly charms on the canvas.  You can see my corner pieces in place.

Here's another close-up of the image and you can see a dragonfly .  The image is actually popped up from the canvas because of all the texture using foam pop-ups.

I added some fancy ribbon, but I made sure I painted a little on it.  Last, I added a charm that I thought seem fitting, after I painted it of course.

Hopefully you have been inspired to create something special and meaningful for you.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

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

• Aud Sentiments - #160 Anything Goes with Sentiment + DT Call
• Classic Design Team Challenge - #5 Anything Goes
• Crafting With Friends - #26 Anything Goes
• Crafty Gals Corner - #82 Anything Goes
• Jo's Scrap Shack - #149 Anything Goes
• Sisters of Craft - August 2016: Anything Goes
• Stamps and Stencils -  Tic Tac Toe (image, circle(s), lace)
• The Pencil Case - wk #25 Anything Goes
• Through The Craft Room Door - wk of July 26 Anything Goes
• World Wide Open DT Challenge - #12 Anything Goes

stamps: Yampuff: Artist Chibi, Unity: plump polka dots, woodgrain script, bitty background
paper: Recollections and Bazzill scraps, the Paper Studio: white
die-cut: MFT: fishtail flag stax
embellishments: Pinata ink, Goosebumps,  Tim Holtz: bubble stencil, lace, Beadlanding: charm, Southern Ridge Trading: chipboard, Recollections: rainbow mini brads, leather, Ranger: goldpearl mist, metal dragonflies.