It’s Blog-Hop time! This month Imagine teamed up with Stencil Girl for a product/design team collab as well as a giveaway (more details below–make sure you scroll all the way to the bottom!).
I had a lot of fun working with my new tools from Stencil Girl and used them to put together a mixed-media canvas. It started with an acrylic paint base and then–why I don’t I show you, instead.
Strut Your Stuff Process Video
As you can probably guess, I took my biggest inspiration from the peacock feather stencil and chose colors that worked with that idea. I was more amused than I necessarily should be that I turned the dancing figure into a fan dancer, but it worked (I think?).
Once I had all the basic layers in place, I ended up leaving it on my work table for almost a week, trying to decide how to finish it. The overall look was really bright, which is not my usual goal, and I wanted to add a stamped phrase but I wasn’t sure of the best way to do that at first.
I ended up adding a couple layers of ink buffed over the creative medium bits to highlight the textures and then stamped the message onto vellum, applied it with the Shimmer Artist’s Medium, and called it done!
Here’s the full product list for this project
(any amazon links are affiliate links, thank you for supporting this blog!)
Imagine Products:
- Creative Medium – Shimmer, Metallic Gold, Iridescent Purple
- Palette Knives
- Radiant Neon Amplify! – Electric Coral, Electric Yellow, Electric Green, Electric Blue
- Brilliance – Moonlight White
- Delicata – Celestial Copper
- Smudgee
- Memento – Elderberry
Stencil Girl Products:
- Loose Woman #1 Small (S418)
- Rembrandt’s Words Small (S262)
- Ornamental Peacock Feathers (S392)
- Stone and Mortar Version 2 (S375)
Other Products:
- 10×10 canvas
- Acrylic Paints – Dioxazine Purple, Cadmium Yellow Dark Hue (Studio 71); Cobalt Blue Hue (Liquitex Basics); Palm Leaf (Plaid Apple Barrel)
- Paint brushes
- Acrylic Blocks
- Stamps – Stamper’s Anonymous (similar arrow, similar footsteps)
- Vellum
- Heat tool
StencilGirl’s Facebook page and Imagine Crafts’s Facebook page
on Monday, July 24th.
July 19th
- Mary C. Nasser
- Janet Joehlin
- Gwen Lafleur
- Carol Baxter
- Jennifer Vanderbeek <<You Are Here
- Nadine Carlier
- Roni Johnson
- Mischelle Smith
July 20
- Sandee Setliff
- Karen Gaunt
- Cindy Gilstrap
- Tina Walker
- Neva Cole
- Kyriakos Pachadiroglou
- Renee Zarate
- Elina Stromberg
July 21
Love the use of peacock feathers instead of a fan! So cute!
Thank you, Marie! I agree, they worked so well!
So pretty! I like the ballerina and the subtle color.
Oooh, good idea! I could totally arrange the feathers differently and get a more traditional tutu look out of them, couldn’t I? I’ll have to try that next 🙂
The motion you created with this vibrant piece is wonderful! I can hear the beat of the music that she is dancing to as I look at it!
Thank you so much, Lisa! I’m so glad you got something out of it 🙂
Great idea, and I love the way you used your imagination!
Thank you, Becky!
Oh boy new products
It’s always fun to find new things to work with, right?!
She is beautiful! Thanks so much for sharing your deign.
Thank you, the pleasure was mine in the creating, only surpassed by being able to share it with all of you!
Beautiful page. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you, Rita!
So fun love her!
such fun layers and .. loved your process
That is Way Cool. Thanks!
what fun! thanks for sharing~
I love how you layered. Beautiful!