Good Morning everyone
Its time for a new challenge over at Creative Artist Mixed media blog where its anything goes with mixed media
Ive decorated a little mdf hexagon and gone with a summery bee theme...I did see a couple of honey bees out this week in my garden so things are beginning to warm up for them.
Approx Size 6x6"
See below for how i did the background. My bees were stamped onto white card and the wings onto white vellum. I watercoloured the bees bodies and cut out, i cut out the wings from the vellum and adhered below the bodies to hide the glue. I curved their bodies and adhered into place with pinflair glue gel to give them a 3d appearance - leaving the wings free
Stamped sentiment onto white card and matted onto black, after alot of arranging and trying out i decided it fitted best in this corner and trimmed the edge to fit the edge of the hexagon.
I first added texture paste through a hexagon stencil, once dried i added acrylic paints - yellow, green & fuchsia pink.
Once dry I dried brushed on white gesso
and then a light layer of fuchsia pink cadence dora paint which has amazing shimmer to it. Im trying to step away from always using my gold tone finish. I went with pink as a good contrast to the yellow of my bee
I had some scraps of mirror card that i had coloured with green and pink alcohol inks which fitted the tone here perfectly - but a real nightmare to take a decent photo of mirror card - trust me in real life it is lovely and bright! I stamped the little honeycomb stamp onto it with black stazon ink, cut out and adhered. They catch the light adding another texture & dimension to the finished project.
I used a grey inktense pencil and added shadow around the hexagons on the background to really make them stand out.
'Bee Awesome' stamped onto white, cut out, matted onto black and added after working out best placement with the bees - this took longer than it might have!
When trying to work on layouts i will often adhered it all with a little repositionable tape on the back and stand it up on my desk so I can keep looking at it - this is especially good when something isn't quite working.....when the answer finally arrives and usually it is only a little thing that can take a project from not working to Yes thats it!
Items Used:
Pink Ink stamps - 'queen bee'
Chocolate Baroque stamps - 'honey bee'
funky fossil mdf hexagon
funky fossil hexagon stencil
texture paste
Cadence dora paint
pebeo acrylic paint
papermania white vellum
silver mirror card
alcohol inks - pink & green
Do hop over to Creative Artist Mixed Media to see what the rest of the DT has created and to join in
My brother took our mum & I to 'The lost gardens of Heligan' this week, it was a beautiful spring day and quite a few bees were out among the spring flowers and with all the birds chirping it was lovely. If you are ever in Cornwall its definitely worth a visit.
Thank you all for stopping by once again. Emmax
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