Unity Stamp {Be Inspired} Blog Hop

I am honoured to be a part of this month's Unity Stamp Company Blog Hop all because my dragonfly piece was selected as the winner for last month's {Be Inspired} Challenge! The Hop starts at the Unity Stamp Company Blog and here is the {Be Inspired} Challenge Board for this month:

This is the 5x7 canvas I created, which was completely inspired by this month's challenge board and two of my brand new Unity stamp sets that I received for my win last month. Both stamp sets are by Donna Downey: Wild and Free and SHE. 

And the following is a photo-heavy tutorial on how this canvas came together and all the products I used to create it. By the way this canvas came together surprisingly quickly and easily, from blank canvas to completed project in less than 2 hours, so why not give it go?

I started by spraying my canvas so heavily that the liquid pooled and then I used my heat gun to dry it which caused these wonderful rings of color to be created. Once this was totally dry I sprayed my canvas with a workable fixative so that the sprays wouldn't reactivate when I added more paint later.

Next I stamped my image right onto the canvas using my Olive Stazon ink.

 

I did not use a stamping block but and pushed the stamp right onto the canvas.

I then mixed up a light green paint for the background.  I wanted to use my fluid acrylic paint because it is more translucent than craft or regular acrylic paint.

And, because it is so translucent look how the green became almost golden when it dried...

Not wanting to waste any of that lovely green paint, I mixed it in with some light modeling paste and pushed it through my brand new Prima butterfly stencil.

And after my butterflies had dried, using my finger, I brushed a light coat of emerald metallic rub over each one to make it pop, and then I outlined each butterfly using black gel pen to really make them stand off the page.

I stamped my sentiment onto some white tissue paper using my Archival waterproof ink and adhered it to the canvas with a glossy gel medium. This way the tissue disappears and the sentiment is easily read.  And since I had the gel medium out, I brushed each butterfly with the gel medium and sprinkled on some micro fine glitter ... just because everything I make needs to sparkle - grin.

And finally to add some dimension I added a bit of a shadow to the poppies with my Copic markers in warm greys, and VOILA!... a sweet little bit of uplifting encouragement to send out to a friend.

So as always, thank YOU for popping in to see what I am up to and Make sure you leave a comment on the Unity Blog & the each of the Design Team Member's Blog's (and of course MY Blog, smile) to be entered into the Unity Blog Hop draw!

and now hop on over to Natalie's blog to see what she created!


Yours in "Unity"
Scrapbook Lynne Mizera