Day 5 blog hop day . . .

If you've been following along this week, you know it's Day 5 of the 

Ken Oliver Crafts - StencilGirl

blog hop.

Today, it's my turn to show you how I've combined
elements from both teams.

Here's my project:

 

I started with a burlap canvas 

and used 

StencilGirl's 

Fossil Fish

Pressed Leaves

&

Branching Blossoms

plus

Ken Oliver Crafts Color Burst

Stencil Pressed Flowers onto the canvas with white gesso

 

Added my favorite Color Burst colors to a palette.

Color Burst is a very fine powder that can be mixed with

water, gesso, embossing paste and a myriad of other things.

What's nice about that?

You can mix colors and not *water down* the gesso or embossing paste.

I mixed with water.

Less water = stronger colors.

More water = transparent colors.

Then started to lay in colors to create shadows and highlights.

 

I worked with a fairly dry brush as I wanted intense colors.

Blended until I got this:

 

Next up, the fossil.

This time I used a sponge dipped in water and then into

the Color Burst colors.

I used a piece of watercolor paper

and dabbed color onto the fossil stencil.

The sponge was barely wet.

 

Then cut around the fish.

 

Using more Color Burst, Ken Oliver's Click-It Ink Pads

and a stipple brush, I added more color to the fish

as well as around the edges of the paper.

 

When I was satisfied with the color,

I sprayed the fish with GooseBumps Clear Texture Spray.

The fish was raised up on the canvas to create more dimension.

 

Thanks for visiting my post.

Please leave a comment for a chance to

win a prize from my blog

and visit my other blog hop partners:

StencilGirl Talk

Janet Joehlin

and

Maria McGuire

Comments

[Nicie Ibarra]

Beautiful canvas!!! I like the fact that you can add the colors to the dry gesso.

[ros]

thanks for sharing love the colours you have used they compliment each other so well

[joy meadows]

Thank you for the step by step of your process in creating this beautiful canvas! I am so intrigued by these color bursts and have loved everything I've seen this week.

[Ann Werrner]

Nancy, this is a beautiful piece, can just see it on the wall of a "favorite fisherman" . I really appreciate your tutorial showing the layering--gives it so much depth and dimension.

[Christie Brooks]

I have got to get this stencil of the fish! Loved your tutorial - making it look so easy.

[Tina J]

Thanks for the inspiration!

[Sarah]

Definitely a new technique I would have never thought about. Thank you for the information!

[Denise Huntington]

Very pretty! Yours is the first project in the hip that used the Color Bursts more subtly. Thanks for the demo!

[Robert Rosendale]

Really love how the Fish and the background turned out.

[MargieH]

OMGoodness~! Your project caught my eye as I love the texture of the burlap with that wonderful combination of gesso, molding paste and of course, the Color Bursts! Just Fabulous!

[Mary Holshouser]

Being married to a fisherman I've seen a lot of fish in my day and this one is wonderful. Love the coloring.
The finished project is beautiful.
thanks for sharing.

[Jean Marmo]

Wow- this is so cool! I need to create something like this for our cottage!

[Caroline Duncan]

Very fun canvas! lovely colors

[stephanie]

great project!

[Tasha Freeman]

Your fish is awesome!

[Jennifer Stevens]

Wow! I just love all the dimension you've achieved with this! So beautiful and thanks for the chance to win these amazing colors too!

[Laurel]

The fish is just beautiful! and the leaves ooooh im drooling :)

[bea savellano]

Thank u for the spnge tip...bea

[Nancy Sapp]

I LOVE the fish canvas! I totally agree that it would look GREAT on the wall of MY favorite "fisherman!" Ben would love it.
Grandma Nancy in central IL
sapps2luv (at) yahoo (dot) com

[MaggieM]

OMG Nancy! When I first viewed this project on Stencil Girl's blog I thought it was an embroidery! That's how dimensional it appears. I love it! It's way cool-thanks for sharing:)

mannwielermaggie(at)gmail(dot)com