Dreamweaver-Stampendous Blog Hop Day 3!

Welcome to Day 3 of the Dreamweaver Stencils and Stampendous Faces of Art blog hop! The Dream Team always loves incorporating the great products from Stampendous into our creations.

We were challenged to create using Dreamweaver and Stampendous products, and based on the name of the hop, "Faces of Art".   Here's what I created for you today:

 Today's creation has a more modern feel, I think so anyway. It's almost minimalist in that there are only three images used (plus the ric rak), but I really like how it turned out. From a distance, when it's hanging on a wall, it looks like a vase of flowers on a ledge and a couple of flowers have fallen. 

Up close, you see the detail of the Stampendous Blossom Beauty stamp shine through the acetate flowers.  I was going to add a flourish on the edges, but the more I looked at her, the more I liked her just like this!
Here's how I did it:

• Stamp the Blossom Beauty face with black ink on white cardstock
• Color her lips and eyes
• Place the open plastic template the comes with the stamp set over the stamped face and tape down with removable tape
• Use a 3/4" stencil brush and light green ink to stencil a little color over the whole face
• Lay the Fan pattern stencil (LJ813) over the face and tape in place with removable tape
• Use a 3/4" stencil brush to add more of the same color through the Fan stencil, repeat with a slightly darker shade of green
• Remove the fan stencil and wipe off the ink with a soft cloth
• Return the fan stencil over the green then shift it up so the openings are now between the first openings
• Use a clean 3/4" stencil brush to add a pink ink through the stencil
• Remove and clean the stencil and the plastic mask
• Stamp the Blossom image on acetate with Black StazOn ink six times
• Use the three different size dies to cut two flowers of each size
• Use Dreamweaver Color Solutions inks on the back of the acetate ( I used Lemoncello, Paprika Red, and Cosmo Pink), you can use an applicator to apply the ink or I just dropped some color around and let it spread, let them dry well
• Coat a 10" x 10" canvas with white Gesso, let dry
• Ink edges with stencil brush and the same light green ink from the face
• Draw a black line 2" up from the bottom edge of the canvas
• Stencil the fan pattern below the line with the light green color, you will have to move your stencil over, but this is an easy design to line back up
• Add a little of the pink color above the line
• Stencil the fan pattern on a piece of white cardstock that is slightly larger than the face, edge with a black marker
• Layer the face on a black mat, then on the larger stenciled piece and glue to the center of the canvas, lining it up along the black line
• Glue down the flowers (I use a liquid glue that dries clear and brush it all over the acetate, it does not show that way
• Add black ric rak around the edge

NOTE: when cutting the acetate flowers, I put the acetate flower on a piece of cardstock and die cut it, otherwise the acetate is too thin and doesn't cut cleanly. (but that could be my acetate, so you should experiment with yours first)

Be sure to hop over to the other designer's Faces of Art postings:

Stampendous Blog

Dream It Up! 

Jamie Martin

Louise Healy

Lyn Bernatovich 

Tenia Nelson 

Kristi Parker Van Doren

Pam Hornschu

Happy Creating,
Louise

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