'Frosted Flowers'

Morning everyone, it's time for our next challenge over at ATP exchange and hosting it this time is the very talented Julia who has chosen 'Stencils'. Here's what she has to say about it.

 'I love to use stencils for ink, paint, mediums and sprays. I'd really like to see your creations using at least one stencil (the more the better though!). You can use any medium/s you choose through your stencil/s but it must be clearly seen where a stencil has been used.'

Lot's of scope here...for some it's shoes or handbags....for me I could never have enough stencils! I've created a frosty flowered frame in cool blues, a sign of the winter to come but a reminder that flowers can bloom all year round.

I started off with a 7" x 5" canvas which I flipped over. I applied some washi tape to cover up the staples but didn't add anything more as I liked the texture and definition that would be highlighted once painted. It also helped create even more of a frame.

I applied grunge paste using the Lin Brown PS001 stencil. Once dry, I painted the front and sides with antarctic fresco, then dry brushed snowflake over the frame adding more into the the grunge paste areas and wiping any excess away with a baby wipe. Once that was dry (thankfully fresco paints dry very quickly)  I dry brushed lake wanaka over, which highlighted all the texture.
The stencil was replaced and a little bit of space cadet was used on the circles and some on the frame edges. Finally some metallic glaze was used on the circles to add that lovely shimmer.

 The 'bloom' was created by stenciling tinted grunge paste (antarctic) through the JOFY PS008 stencil onto a separate piece of sticky back canvas, trimmed a bit bigger than the aperture. Once dry the stencil was replaced and lake wanaka was dry brushed over the base of the letters and metallic glaze to the top of them.

Some further stenciling with the same colours and circle stencil created the background on the canvas before adhering in place.

 Some 'bump' stenciling was applied to the sides with space cadet as the base and snowflake on top to contrast with the antarctic fresco.

Next the flowers, I used Darcy's lovely EDY09 set. At first I was going to use the seed head as I was originally inspired by the frost on dried flowers which I find so beautiful. As there is only one size of that stamp I opted for the spiky flower which echoed the font and contrasted with the circles....btw I think they would make fantastic snowflakes for Christmas!

 Cornflower blue archival and clear embossing powder were used to stamp the images onto heavy smoothy card . The same paint colours were used to shade the flowers and then metallic glaze applied on top...although you could mix the paint with the glaze first if you wanted to.

Fussy cut out and arranged with some heavy gel medium to add some depth to the flowers. The metallic glaze really does shimmer when the light catches it.

Bit of a PaperArtsy fest today....which I thoroughly enjoyed! All products can be found at the Artist Trading Post.

Thanks so much for stopping by, for more inspiration please visit the rest of the talented DT where I hope you'll be inspired to get out those stencils and have some fun!