Time To Dance

Happy Labor Day to everyone! I wanted to share a mixed media canvas I made this week for a challenge site called "Let's Get Shabby." We had to pick a season from this picture as inspiration:

And then create a layout, card or off the page project.  I made a mixed media canvas based on the Spring photo, I loved the image of the ballerina and the flowers. 
First I picked out some papers I thought I may want to use on the canvas:

Then I used mod podge to adhere the papers/elements.  Gel medium would work great too! I also brushed a layer on top to seal in the images and also to ensure any paint or mist I used wouldn't just sink into the papers.

I then added this lovely chipboard picture of the dancing girls and some random corregated cardboard and other chipboard pieces, as well as some cheesecloth.  Trying to build up some texture, I continued by scraping some modelling paste through a stencil on the right top and left bottom corners. I also gessosed the images to tone them down and to make them blend together more.

The fun part! I added various colors of Lindy's Stamp Gang mists, glass bead gel, some stamping and some flowers.  I found some pink sparkly alpha stickers so added "time to" with them.

These giant chipboard alphas were kinda white so I added 3 different colors of distress ink to give them some color.  I then embossed them with white sparkly embossing powder that's hard to see in the picture. 

I just added more color and blended til I was happy, then threw on some rub ons and a lace border and I was done.  So much fun, it came together pretty quickly once I had the idea in my head. It's so fun to get messy and experiment with the different colors/mediums, you just have to go for it!

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Sarah