Flowers are Little Smiles by Bev Hilton

Hello everybody. Bev here today with this week's DT project. I was extremely lucky and very excited when this piece got a big WOW from Hayley who presented the afternoon show on Hochanda last Friday so I thought I would share it with you here.

  

Here's what I used...

That's Crafty! Surfaces GiganTAG – White/Greyboard

That's Crafty! 8x8 Stencils - Denyse TC8003, Random Stones TC8004

That's Crafty! Dinky Stencils - Flowers TC093, Leaves TC086, Honeycomb TC002

Rubber Dance Stamp Set - Textured Flowers

That's Crafty! Stamp Set - Lynne's Affirmations Set 2

PaperArtsy Stamp Set - Elenazinski Art ZA08

Distress Oxide Ink Pads - Broken China, Worn Lipstick, Wilted Violet

Distress Inks - Peacock Feathers, Abandoned Coral, Weathered Wood

Creative Expressions Texture Paste - Gold Pearl

Newton and Windsor Drawing Inks - Purple, Brilliant Green, Vermillion, Deep Red, Sunshine Yellow

Posca Pens - Yellow, White, Black

Archival Ink Pads – Jet Black, Hydrangea

Here's what I did...

I began by taping down Denyse and blended through the stencil with the Weathered Wood Distress Ink. Once I had the depth of colour required I took the negative part of the stencil and covered her. I then covered the rest of the tag with Broken China Distress Oxide Ink and spritzed with water. I didn't get much of a reaction sadly but went ahead anyway.

I then took the Worn Lipstick and Wilted Violet and blended randomly until happy. I removed the negative part of the stencil and replaced my stencil back over Denyse and taped in place with low tack tape. I then covered that with the Random Stones stencil and spread though the texture paste. I set this aside to dry.

I stamped multiples of all the flowers and leaves from the stamp set with black Archival ink. I decided I wanted added texture on the texture paste so I used a heat tool to create the bubble effect. Then the task of fussy cutting all my flowers and leaves...yes that took a while but it's worth the effort. I coloured all the elements with the drawing inks, making sure I did both sides as I didn't want to see any white showing once glued onto the tag. I felt my flowers and leaves needed something more so I added some highlights with the Posca Pens.

I then did some random stenciling with the Dinky stencils over my background until happy, and added some rings with various lids I have. Once happy with the look I shaped the flowers and glued all my pieces into place with glue gel.

I then stamped the wording on left with black Archival and the other with Hydrangea. At this point I felt my background needed something else so took my white Posca pen and dotted on some highlights.

Thank you for taking the time to drop by. I do hope you like it and I look forward to sharing some more creativity with you all again next Wednesday. Enjoy the rest of your week.

Much love,

Bev. xxx