Saturday 5 April 2014

Don't eat the daisies

I have a wall hanging to share with you all today. My inspiration for this project came from Clare Lloyd's Tuesday post on the PaperArtsy blog titled 'Sentimental'. I have used different colours and stamps from Clare I have kept the basics the same - the background technique, a flower and a sentiment. I am entering this project in PaperArtsy blog's weekly challenge.


To make this project I followed the steps on Clare's blog post. To start I covered a small paper Marché wall hanging with Gesso. Once dry I added a layer of Bora Bora Fresco Finish paint.  Once this was dry I stamped sentiments from Jofy Collections - 12 and 14 using a Jet Black Archival ink pad. Onto this I them stencil Grunge Paste through a stencil. The stencil I used was Mini Grandma's Doily from The Crafters Workshop.
 

Once the Grunge Paste was dry I added a layer of Beach Hut Fresco Finish paint.
 

I stamped the flower from Jofy collection 12 twice onto smooth white card with a Tuxedo Black Memento ink pad. I coloured the stamp images with Copics - YG63, YG67, Y06 and Y08. I cut out one complete image. I then cut out just the flower heads from the second image and added them with foam pads to the complete image, as shown below.
 

I stamped a sentiment also from Jofy collection 12 onto white card. Following Clare's project I also stamped words on to the black card layer.
 

I added the sentiment to the wall hanging first and then the flowers so the edge of the flower slightly overlapped the sentiment. To finish I added Glossy Accents to the yellow flower centre and a little Star Dust Stickles to the flowers.
 

10 comments:

Trish said...

Beautiful wall hanging! Great colours!

Clare Lloyd said...

wonderful, gorgeous colours. thanks for joining us @ PaperArtsy.

Hazel Agnew said...

Exquisite. X

Darcy Marshall said...

This is great, fab colours.

ionabunny said...

Love the background. The sentiment made me laugh

Etsuko said...

Beautiful board. Love the background textures and colours.

Anonymous said...

This is lovely Georgina! x

Julie Lee said...

What a fabulous interpretation of Claire's hanging. I love the blue - so intense and eye-catching! Julie Ann xxx

Lucy Edmondson said...

This looks great, Georgina, very striking,

Lucy x

Anonymous said...

Sorry I'm so late commenting. This is gorgeous, I love the colours, the flowers look great against the blue background.