Just For Fun - August challenge
The theme was 'Anything Goes'
I thought i would try something different as a design team member, so I decided to create an altered canvas using my favourite colour lilac and dragonflies/ butterflies as the theme which I love.
This was the result -
This was made using a combination of layers of paper mâché quality lilac serviette , left over from my wedding and peachy / pink silky material or torn or cut accordingly and pva in place.
On top of this I hand tore a combination of white , stone , and cream coloured hand made papers all with threads of gold and metlic colours trailing through them. In contrast to this I also glued some areas with a lilac paint splattered material mesh webbing, and then left it all to dry.
After it was dry I stamped in certain areas with a dark lilac textured ink flower head stamp and other areas a tiny gold leaf stamp , on to this I applied a fe cut out decoupaged butterflies .
The dragonfly was created from firstly hand cutting the wing shapes from an pink pearlised and iridescent backing paper - the wings were then glued to the canvas , I made the body from a few remaining stones and gems I had from an old necklace and the tail was made from a cut off section of and old bracelet - finished off with a silver metal bead .
A few old silver metal butterfly earrings were detached from their fastenings and added to the canvas along with a scattering of tiny silver metal flower head beads.
The whole canvas was then covered in a covering of sparkly mod podge and left to dry and harden.
To finish I covered the outside edge with a dark purple silk ribbon and the outside edge of the frame face with a cut down piece of lilac florist webbed ribbon.
I hope you like the result , I was pleased with my first ever altered art canvas.
Come and have a look at our first ever Just for Fun Challenge or maybe even enter for a chance to win this months prize x
