Watercoloured Free Spirit on Canvas

Good morning everyone!

DT Stephanie with you today to show you a bit of watercolouring on a canvas that I created with Bloom Girl Free Spirit and a couple of awesome products from Jamie's line at Prima.

List of supplies I used :
12x12 canvas
6x12 Stencil-Phrases, 655350980436
1 Color Bloom Spray (colour of your choice)
1.5" Thread Letters-LOVE, 655350980474
A4 Watercolor Paper Pad, 655350980269
Bloom - Cling Stamps - "Free Spirit", 655350980184
Sentiment from the Bloom Cling Stamp - Quentin, 655350980337
Bloom- Art Book,  655350980009
Large Doily
StazOn black ink
Watercolour pencils (Prima's and Inktense by Derwent)
Waterbrush pen
Two kraft tags
Brown ink for distressing
Coral Gelato stick from Faber-Castell
Tiny square stencil
Gel medium
Modeling Paste
Twine

Here are the steps to complete this project :

Start by putting a thick layer of modeling paste on your preferred word from the phrases stencil and some tiny squares, too.

Remove stencil and let dry complete. You can do this project over a couple of days, or you can use a heat gun to fasten the process.

Spray some Color Bloom here and there, moving the canvas to try having droplets. 

Remove two pages from your Art Book and gently tear them in large pieces. Stick the first pattern on your canvas by using gel medium.

Add your doily in the center, again glueing it with gel medium.

Ink both kraft tags and put on top of the doily. We're building layers!

Add thread letters wherever you want. If the letters try to move when handling the canvas, add a thin coat of gel medium to their back.

Stamp sentiment on two pieces.

Stamp your Bloom Girl on watercolour paper.

Start adding colours to her face first, by using Prima's hair and skin set. You can easily do the rest with your Inktense pencils or any medium you like, as long as she gets completely coloured,

Add some twine as a hairband, if you want.

Take the second page out of your Art Book, tear it, glue it on top of the rest.

Spray some Color Bloom again.

Place your Bloom Girl on the layers using either double-sided tape or 3D foam dots.

For a nice finishing touch, grab your gelato and rub some colour at the corners of the canvas.

Here's the look without the sentiment on.

A close-up...

And our finished piece!

I hope you liked this canvas, as it was totally out of my comfort zone. How about YOU do something different the next time you create, too? :-)

Explore, ATC's Bloom style!

Hi everybody!  Here in Puerto Rico the summer is on full blast, the sun is shinning and actually a bit of rain wouldn't hurt to cool ourselves!  Inspired in this warm weather I decided to take my Bloom girl out for a walk!

Let's start our journey!  Bring out Jamie's fab watercolor pad, that thing is really thirsty!!!!

measure and cut to 2.5" x 3.5" for your ATC's

Stamp your girl using Archival ink, this will get really wet!

Next add some modeling paste to the Circles stencil, behind your girl!

I'm using Faber Castell whipped spackle

Start adding your gelatos to create the blazing sun

the fun part coloring your girl!

using Glass Bead Glitter Gel adhere some micro beads for a finishing touch

Now you have a quick army of ATC ready to share among friends!

 

 

I filmed a short video on making them

Thanks for visiting and have fun Exploring!

 

Milagros

 

 

Bloom stamp (explore, create, Inspire)

Bloom Circle stencil

Bloom A4 watercolor pad

Gelatos (lemon, cherry, squeezed orange)

Whipped spackle

Glass Bead Glitter gel

Watercolor pencils

Micro beads (Fire Opal)

 

 

Happy Birthday Frida Kahlo, Bloom Style!

Hi everybody! It's a Monday, not our regular schedule here at the Bloom Girls but it's Frida Kahlo's Birthday today so I asked permission to post on her day!  Recently I visited Mexico, what a beautiful country and of course I HAD to visit Casa Azul, her home/museum in the quaint city of Coyoacán, MX.

And being the scrapbooker that I am I had to create a journal/album to put all my photos and memorabilia. 

I thought it would be cool to do a Bloom project going back on Jamie's stamps all the way to the newest.

Jamie's stamps are so versatile they go anywhere and Boom, make it all better!

I'm also using the new Ranger's line of Dylusions acrylic paint because they match so well the vibrant palette of Mexico, I think Frida would approve... and Sandra Evertson Relics and Artifacts, because Frida would approve as well...

so come visit!

One of my favorite FK quotes

 "Feet what do I need you for, if I have wings to fly"

you are going to love what I used to create my quote banner...I should put you to the test on this one, ha!

on to the know how

I took a chipboard album and painted it Azul, if you thought it was as easy as splashing cobalt blue, think again, I used 3 blues, one violet and a white, from Liquitex and DinaWakley acrylics, you can see a bit of the museum outdoor pic to help me with the color

I had me a stamping storm, can you spot the banner I used? yup you're right! I am using Sharon's hair as my banner, it worked beautifully, who would have though you don't actually need to buy an extra stamp now!

It's all in the eye of the beholder

 

 

Frida loved butterflies that's why I used the gorgeous Monarchs on Sharon's hair.  while I was fuzzy cutting I decided to leave the eye, kinda  quirky.  That led me to using a real eye from Sandra's Relics.  And what better to decorate that eye Frida/Dali style than by using Catrina?

Also this stencil silhouette provided me with the perfect Frida and Jamie's stamps provided me with the perfect scale for her signature flowers on her hair!

my first choice for her wings were the butterflies on Sharon's stencil, as the project evolved I decided to add the Relics ones on top of the Monarchs.  It's an ongoing thing, as you know,  while you create.

I wanted colorful blooms for my book to surround Frida with all the bright colors she loved

I'm using

 

 

Sharon

Sharon stencil

Catrina

Inspire, Create, Explore

Wings

 

Girl Sophie

 

Bubble Gum pink, postbox red, squeezed orange, lemon zest, cut grass, white linen, black marble 

I decided to add Catrina's roses here along with her hairdress in the eye and wings

and can you spot her chin in "Frida's" body? I used Catrina's chin sunflower in a couple of places!

Flowers' on Frida's hair

And now a tour of what's inside!

 

I saved all of my receipts, including a permission to take photos inside the museum!

each tab has one of Frida's quotes handwritten in them

I used Jamie's wings stencil and stamp here!

the body was made stamping a Prima floral stamp

here I used the wings stencil with some gold embossing

and this one was inspired by Frida's wardrobe exhibit:

 "Appearances can be deceiving",

 that we were fortunate enough to see

this is one of the corsets she had to use and also the inspiration of one of her paintings

 

So, I hope you have enjoyed my" Bloomy" interpretation of Frida

 

and enjoyed a new way to use some of  Jamie's fab stamps!

"til next time!

 

Milagros