Scrap Tiffany Week 8 Challenge

This week's challenge is up at ScrapTiffany! This is a fun week! The challenge is to use wings on your project/layout. I have always loved the wing embellishments! I decided this week to get out of my box and do something different. Something I haven't really done before. Scary thought huh! Well I decided to try a canvas project. I had a vision in my head of what I wanted it to be......and here it is....

Here's a close up of the wings....aren't they fun?

And my first attempt at painting my handwriting! Not perfect but art is not meant to be perfect right? I'm ok with that!

Now for the steps in how I completed the project, just in case you want to step out of your box! LOL

I started with a blank white canvas board that I picked up at Michaels or Hobby Lobby, can't remember which.

I used Liquitex acrylic paints in the turquoise and blue.
But I first covered the canvas with gesso, let it dry, then added the paint. I put a little paint on a pallet but then added a little water too. I just painted the two colors around different parts of the canvas. I had an accident that actually turned into something I liked. In using the water, I actually used too much and it started to puddle, so I took a paper towel to dab some of it off, and it left the greatest texture! I love when that happens!

Here's the finished painted canvas. See that texture from the paper towel? Isn't it cool?

Here's just a few of the supplies I used.....the wings and heart embellishments are Tim Holtz Grungeboard.

I painted the wings white and then sprinkled Martha Stewarts glitter on them. I loved this glitter for the wings. It's not the fine glitter. It's actually called marble glitter. Really cool stuff!

Then I painted the hearts in a fuschia pink. While they were still tacky, I took some white paint on my finger and just smeared it in. Once it was dry, I used one of my script stamps and just stamped the image on the top.

Once my pieces were dry, I began to put them together. I added some feathers behind the wings just to add to the feeling of the wings. Used the Big Bite Crop-a-dile to punch a couple of holes in the canvas board, added tulle and voila!

My finished project!

I hope maybe this encourages you to try something new. I've been wanting to try something like this, I just never did. I will tell you it was so fun and really didn't take long at all!

Be sure to go over to Scrap Tiffany and check out the other designers projects. There's a great variety of creations using the wing theme. Also, Tiffany has just added some new design team members so there's even more eye candy for you to drool over! They're all great!

And don't forget, you can participate in the challenge as well! Just send Tiffany and email with photos of your creations! Come on and join us, it's a lot of fun!

I also wanted to share something exciting for me! My sweet friend, Leslie Ashe, who is one of the most talented and amazing scrapbooking artist I've seen, posted one of my layouts on her blog yesterday! How amazing is that? I was quite honored to say the least! You can go check it out here: LeslieAshe Blog. Thanks so much Leslie! You rock girl!