BeYOUtiful Bloom Canvas

Hi everyone, it's Janine Koczwara here with another Bloom Girl blog post.  I absolutely adore how perfect the size of Jamie's Bloom Girl Stamps are for canvases!  It makes creating a striking piece of art so easy.

The other wonderful part about these stamps is that you don't necessarily have to sit down and do it all at once.  I stamped the Prima Bloom Stamp Sharon onto Copic Blending Card before I had to take a 4 hour plane journey and then packed a few Copics and Prisma pencils in a pencil case and took on the plane.  While I flew across the sky, I amused myself by colouring this girl.  I might add the flight attendants found it fascinating! They kept coming back to just see what progress I made. LOL!  She then sat at home with a couple of other images I have coloured, waiting for the perfect opportunity to use.

Then I created the background for her.  I have a few "go to" things I often do when creating a canvas. First I added a few touches of colour with Faber Castell Gelatos.  I love the way you just messily colour a couple of areas before you use a brush to blend it in. It blends so beautifully and gives an awesome base to work from once dry. (See that pink craft mat in the background, every time I use it I think of the gorgeous lady called Gina who gave it to me after attending a couple of my classes in the US)

I then went on to add some napkins, tissue paper and some text paper with Matte Medium, for a little bit of texture and dimension in the background.  Folowed by some acrylic paint here and there and some white circles applied with my finger.  Then more of these 3 gelato colours onto the circles I had put on there, smushing in with my finger and adding dimension through Faber Castell Big Brush Markers on the underside to intensify the colour.

Finally I added a stencil with Modelling Paste and again used Matte Medium to adhere my Bloom Girl to the canvas.  I made sure some of the Matte Medium went outside her hairline and then sprinkled glitter over it, for a sparkly halo effect.

I finished off the canvas with a die cut title and a smattering of Prima Flowers in teal, yellow and orange, to compliment the tones in the coloured Bloom girl image.  Making canvases from these Bloom Girl Stamps is just so much fun I really do recommend you try one, as they will make an awesome gift this Christmas.

PRODUCTS USED:

6 x 12 inch Canvas

Prima Bloom Stamp Sharon

Prima Soft Matte Gel Medium

Prima Modelling Paste

Prima Heavy Gesso

Prima Gold Glitter

Prima Background Stamps

Tim Holtz Tissue Paper

Copics, YR0000, YR000, YR00, E000, R20, BV000

Prisma Coloured Pencils

White Sharpie Paint Pen

Black Sharpie

Paper Napkin

Prima Flowers

Faber Castell Gelatos

Faber Castell Big Brush Markers

Ceramcoat Acrylic Paint

Luminarte Silk Solar Gold

Lumninarte Polished Pigemnts Gold Dust

Kaisercraft Die - BeYoutiful

Ranger Archival Ink

Dr Ph Martin India Inks

Artist Cellar Stencil