Inspired by - Michelle Webb with Frescos

The fabulous people at Paperartsy have a new Guest Design team working with them this year to help us embrace all things Paperartsy, with challenges along the way.

Now, you MAY have noticed (ahem!) that I am partial to a Paperartsy product or twenty so this is right up my street!

The first Guest Designer is the lovely Michelle Webb from TheHobbyRoom - just check out her fabulous creations!

I decided to tackle a canvas.  Michelle covered her wooden piece with torn poem pages, and painted over that, but I painted the canvas first and then used torn tissue wrap to partially cover the canvas.  I forgot to take step by step photos - too keen to get on!!

I used Baltic Blue, Beach Hut (it's new to me, just arrived this week, and is YUMMY) and white. I gave the whole canvas a light gesso wash to knock it back a little, before stencilling the bubbles in baltic blue again.


Then I took the leafy vine stencil (I've been dying to use this since it came to me just before Christmas...) I used puff paint applied with a paint brush and spread with an old credit card, before puffing it and adding some Fresco paint in Limelight.

Did some random stamping of a script stamp (Mini MN61) in black archival ink, rolling the stamp to ensure I only got part of the script.

for my main image I took the seed head stamp (Hot Pick 1005, this remains one of my favourite images) and stamped it on the Paperartsy Crackly paper, in black. I painted a light coat of Honeydew Fresco on the reverse of the seed head, before cutting it out and gluing it to the canvas.  The text is the beautifully written text from the JoFY new collection, and although they're not strictly speaking, flowers, well you get the idea!

So, a big thank you to Michelle for the inspiration, and Paperartsy for putting together this new GD team (run by the delightful Gillian ) I can see we are all going to have lots of fun with this. (there are even prizes on offer!!)