Guest Designer for A Vintage Journey-Monochromatic Canvas

Hello lovely friends and visitors! I'm excited  to be Guest Designer at A Vintage Journey today for the talented Tracy's challenge theme "Monochromatic"! For her challenge I've chosen to make a shabby canvas.

I love creating monochromatic projects, and usually the toughest part is deciding on a color! I went with teals/turquoise this time, and my inspiration was the resin embellishment I picked up at Hobby Lobby at the bottom right hand side. Hopefully these colors will cool us off! It's been notihing but HOT, HOT, and more HOT here!

Because my canvas claimed to be triple coated with gesso, I got right to work. I laid down some Golden Crackle paste through Tim's Flourish Layering Stencil and cut the Flourish  from his Mixed Media #2 die which I adhered with gel medium diagonally from the pasted flourish. I gave it all a coat of gesso at this point and allowed it to fully dry. I painted on Distress Tumbled Glass and spritzed with water to blend. While wet I flicked on rubbing alcohol and dried.  I added more layers following the same technique and added Distress crayon in Peacock Feathers around the edges and smudged. Because it was too bold for my liking, I scraped gesso on with a piece of chipboard and scraped that back when partially dry.  In doing so, I lost all my crackle. I splattered with a watered down guache mixture of blue and turquoise, watered down black guache, and also watered down DecoArt Titanium White. I made  shadows with watered down guache in turquoise.

          

           

I made some flowers with my new Shabby Posies die by Tammy Tutterow and Tim's Tattered Florals inked with Tumbled Glass. Smaller flowers were made with the Tattered Flower Garland die and colored with Peacock Feathers crayon at edge and Peacock Feathers ink. A single black half pearl with gesso stands in for the center. I cut a few from crinoline and these were painted with titanium white and a hint of Tumbled Glass. The larger posies have centers of beautiful tiny roses gifted to me by  blog buddy Samra of Paper Talk With Samra. She makes the prettiest flowers! These work perfectly with the posies--thank you, Samra! I colored the flowers with Titanium White to unify them, since they were made from different card. I never knew there were so many shades of white! The single Tiny Tattered flower tucked in at the top of the spray is leftover from a previous project.

Gesso was patted on two metal flowers from my stash.  A third metal flower was already painted a deep green. In an attempt to unify it with the others, I covered it with black gesso and patted with silver metallic paste and then patted with white gesso,

Check out those old metal word file tabs! They were the rage at one time. The price tag tells me they were just 49 cents on clearance at Michaels,  and that was years ago! I simply altered them by cutting off the back flap and coloring them with the Distress Crayon--easy peasy!

The resin bicycle was first painted with the Distress crayon just on the frame, followed by a pat down with the Titanium White on a make up sponge. Just a hint of color shows through.

The blue resin flower embellishment that inspired the whole canvas was patted with white gesso to show off the detail.

Here's one more look at my shabby monochromatic summertime canvas. I would like to thank Nikki and the entire panel of Creative Guides at A Vintage Journey for inviting me to be Guest Designer for a day here at one of my favorite challenge blogs! I am truly honored! I hope you will enter your monochromatic project this month at A Vintage Journey--you just may win a generous gift certificate from The Funkie Junkie Boutique!

I'm sharing this canvas with the following challenges:

Southern Ridge Trading Company Anything Summer

Scrapy Land Challenge #45 - Anything Goes I used Spellbinders and four different Sizzix dies.

Simon Says Stamp Work It Wednesdays June 2016 Use Wafer thin Dies or a Stencil I used both! this is my final entry.

Country View July Challenge-Have Fun With Circles circles on my bike-the wheels! Circle s in splashes and splatters. Circle shaped flowers and at the center of the flowers, Circle shaped formed by the flourishes.

A Vintage Journey-July Challenge-Monochromatic

Word Art Wednesday Challenges #238-#239- Anything Goes

Creative Artiste Challenge #16-Anything Goes This is my final entry.

Frilly and Funkie All Lined Up My lines are on the spokes and basket of the bicycle, in the dots on the file tabs, and in a grid pattern on the crinoline. I hope it's OK my lines are going in EVERY direction on the wheels!

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Flora and Fauna I chose flora!

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Create a Scene

Thank you for stopping by today and for all your fabulous comments! I read and appreciate each and every one of them!

Hugs and Blessings!

Sara Emily