I'm a gardener so any chance that I get to play with a collection that is all about flowers, I am definitely going to take advantage of the opportunity!

Every month Prima Marketing does a color challenge and this month was all about lavender. I knew the perfect collection to use for this challenge was the Watercolor Floral collection. I absolutely adore this collection!

I also incorporated some Finnabair mediums as well as elements from Tim Holtz, Reneabouquets, Pinkfresh Studio and Scrapbook.com. 

I started by painting an 8x8 inch canvas with Lavender Impasto paint from Finnabair. Once the impasto was dry, I used the new Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous floral outlines stamp to add texture to the canvas. To help me stamp on the canvas, I placed a small lidded container under the canvas so the surface was sturdy. I also used a static pad on the canvas before stamping my images. I then stamped the images using clear embossing ink then embossed the images using Ranger's Super Fine white embossing powder. I then painted, stamped and embossed a small wooden butterfly piece. 

Next I used Distress Oxide Spray in Seedless Preserves to add a bit of watercolor to the stamped images. I began by watering a little bit down in a palette, blotting the excess off. I layered on color by using more and more concentrated versions of the oxide spray and blotting less. To add a little shimmer to the canvas and wood piece, I watered down a bit of Opal Magic paint in my palette and painted the leaves of the stamped images. I then splattered my canvas with the same Opal Magic paint and also watered down Pops of Color in Soft Lilac.

While the canvas dried, I fussy cut a whole bunch of elements from Prima's Watercolor Floral collection and picked out some pieces of pre-cut ephemera. I then used a shaping tool to add a little more dimension to my ephemera pieces. 

Once my canvas was all dry, I began layering on my elements, using a variety of adhesives. I started by placing some paper flowers onto the canvas using heavy body gel followed by the wooden butterfly piece that I attached with a small dab of hot glue to the flower directly under the center of it and Smart Glue where it touched the edges of other flowers. 

I added some Reneabouquets lace to the left side of the canvas with a small dab of heavy body gel then popping a paper flower over the top edge of the lace with more of the same medium. Next I used Distress Collage Medium Matte to attach the ephemera to some of the paper flowers to "float" the ephemera over the canvas and flowers. I also used a small bit of foam adhesive to attach the large purple flower ephemera to the edge of the wooden butterfly. I also added a fussy cut sentiment to the upper left of the canvas with foam adhesive. 

I tucked leaves in using Distress Collage Medium Matte the added another small flower and leaf ephemera to the top of the wooden butterfly. To finish it all off, I added a Reneabouquets butterfly using a bit more foam adhesive and used Glossy Accents to add a few Pinkfresh jewels. 

I hope you enjoyed this mixed media canvas. I really love how the embossed and watercolor flowers turned out, so much so that I tried it on watercolor cardstock for another project! Until next time, happy crafting!

Adrienne

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