Hello! Today I'm sharing a recent creation for ArtStacks. "Be sure to smell the flowers along the way" has been in the works for a while now, but lucky I was enough to have a weekend at retreat so finally got to finish it.
I had used a fern stencil and paint on the background, I then added a thin music paper (from The Homemaker Cardstack) circle over the top. I had cut the figure from the canvas paper, also from The Homemaker CardStack, and because there was pink on the figure, I wanted to include more. I had some leftover Brown Dressmaking Tissue, again from the same pack, which had pink paint on it, so layered it on. most ended up covered, but it's there. I had the torn strip from Lisa Oxley's Bright & Bold, stuck down too and that was it. I had a break till retreat, where I tried to remember where I was going with this??? I'll confess, I do tend to jump around from page to page, but there isn't normally this much of a break between.
The original stencil used was created by a friend, who had also created leaves to match, so I painted them various greens and cut the 3rd from the green cardstock from Lorraine Haight Moraine Altered Ancestors Pack to add more folage...if felt a little lacking with just the painted background. But it still wasn't right, so I added the tissue paper flowers (Anemones & Friends pack), but I still wanted more pink, so added the pink flowers and butterfly, again from the Anemones & Friends pack. Lastly adding the title and a little bit of journaling.
Pop over to the ArtStacks blog to see the other amazing creations from the rest of the team, they truly are an inspiration!
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