Shabby Butterfly Canvas

Hello friends and visitors! I have a quick post for you today of a canvas I made for my daughter. Pamellia is hosting the challenge 'Things with Wings' at Frilly and Funkie, so I included lots of butterflies on my canvas. This started with a stack of "art" papers  that I had been playing with but never actually made it onto a project.

This looks a bit of a mess, but actually it's quite pretty in natural light and in person. You'll just have to take my word on it! Below is a shot I took outdoors in the shade and is much more like the actual colors. The inspiration for my project was a piece of paper I lined my spray box with covered in yummy Dylusions ink sprays. I die cut my flowers and punched some butterflies using this and other papers in my "save it for later" basket.

I die cut my posies and adhered to the canvas...pretty bold colors...probably not shabby enough for Frilly and Funkie, huh?

I added some stenciling using transparent paste and some glitter, then Tumbled glass stain spritzed with water. Ooops! The Dylusions are bleeding, but I kind of like that! Still too bright but white wash paint and Multi Matte Medium help to tone it down.

This is the scrap paper I cut the large butterfly with. I believe I used alcohol and kosher salt to get the texture over Distress paints. Isn't it pretty?

Here are some close ups to give you an idea of how pretty the background is, and I've included a list of products used at the end of the post. I'll cut this short because my sweet daughter will be home for the weekend any minute! I just have to say I had a blast making this. I've been having some er, issues getting back into the Closet, so I took some of my own advice and just went in there and played. I hope this will encourage my daughter, as she is still trying to get accustomed to college life. Love this Tim Holtz "Pondering".

Products used:

Dies:  Tim Holtz Detailed Butterflies Thinlits, Spellbinders Tammy Tutterow Shabby Posies Punches:  Martha Stewart and stash Stamps: Tim Holtz Ponderings Stencils:  TCW, Tim Holtz Distress:  Tumbled Glass stain,  Wild Violet spray and paint, Blueprint Sketch ink and paint, Picket Fence Crackle paint, Clear Rock Candy Glitter Ranger:  Texture Paste Transparent Matte, Multi Matte Medium, Glossy Accents  DecoArt: White Wash acrylic paint  Prima:  Art Sugar Antique Silver  Dylusions sprays:  Vibrant Turquoise, London Blue, Bubblegum Pink  Ideaology: Tim Holtz Plain Tissue Wrap  Michaels:  canvas board

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

Frilly and Funkie Things With Wings

Southern Ridge Trading Company Your Favorites Well....let's see, mixed media, crackle, purples/blues, butterflies and my daughter!

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday-STAMPtember-Stamp It!

Simon Says Stamp Monday STAMPtember-Stamp It!

Word Art Wednesday Anything Goes Challenge Weeks #246-#247

Scrapy Land Challenge #49 Anything Goes with Any Die Scrapy Land Sells I used  Spellbinders and Sizzix dies.

Creative Artiste Challenge #18 "Anything Mixed Media Goes"

Thank you for stopping by today and for leaving your lovely comments!

Hugs and Blessings!

Sara Emily