Sunday 15 May 2011

Sunday Stamper 154 - Camouflage

Hels' Sunday Stamper challenge is Camouflage - or greens, khaki's.  I started this earlier this morning and have been doing it in dribs and drabs all day.

I started with a canvas (5x7ish) which I painted with a mixture of birch and zucchini eco green paints, mixed on my craft mat.  Whilst that dried, I stamped a load of flowers (a small and a large 5 petal flower stamp from Hobby Art - one of my earliest purchases) on a sheet of paper from Tim's Retro Grunge stack, in a kind of sludgy green colour.
This is with the flash so the butterflies show up more but it isn't a true representation of the green (see below)

I used two fragments coloured with various green alcohol inks for the flower centres, and backed the sentiment with the same paper I used for the flowers.
 Layered them up to make two flowers, fixed them together using the tiny attacher under the fragments.
Used some Roxx (Judikins - bottle unopened!) - black beady things for the butterfly bodies.
And a word stick coloured with meadow alcohol ink.
The butterflies are Tim's die, coloured wild honey grungepaper and overstamped with background stamps. Sprayed with heirloom Gold perfect pearl for some sparkle.

7 comments:

Craft Addicts - Tracy Evans said...

That green on the canvas is yummy Helen, love the flowers with the fragments in the centre. Great take on the challenge. Tracy x

flutterbycrafter said...

I also like the green on the canvas, love the flowers and of course the butterflies, beautiful work xx

Kaz said...

Gorjuss Helen!! love the green too xxx

KAzx

Kay said...

This is fab. Love the background colour especially x

Hels Sheridan said...

fabberdidabberdidoodles... loving all those layers Helen... thanks for joining in with the Sunday Stamper x

Gillian .... said...

Loving this nature inspired canvas Helen, great layering with the flowers, fab:) Sorry bout the result today:(

Lesley Edmonds said...

I love the subtle colours, really good design and the fab sentiment.
x