Fossil Butterfly Art

This weeks inspiration came from looking at various blog challenges and the super talented Julie Ann over at Magpie Heaven with her use of paint. So I was now inspired to get my paints out and try a piece of Altered Art for a change this week, also using my melt pot. 

Unfortunately, I don’t have pictures of different stages of my canvas in progress as my ‘Photographer’ was at his work !!! Anyway, I’ll take you through my project. First of all, I die cut and glued my CL frame onto the canvas and then gave it all a coat in Gesso. I started to then blend 3 colours of paint with cut and dry foam onto my canvas and a piece of white cardstock to use later. I chose a selection of stamps to use on my project and stamped without mounting them onto a block, with a selection of inks and paints. This would stop me having bold lines and give a more aged look. I rubbed paint around the edges of the canvas, this then draws your eye into the artwork.

My Butterfly Inspiration sprung into my mind when they were talking about Fossils on the TV. I had bought my meltpot over a year ago after seeing a demo at a craft fair pouring utee onto a rubber stamp and had used my meltpot for other techniques but not specifically this. I inked my Butterfly stamp with Plum Archival and Versafine Imperial Purple. I then poured utee over it. Once this had set I peeled it off my rubber stamp and rubbed some more ink over the raised surfaces and rubbed gilding wax onto it. I painted the reverse with some White Gesso to make my colours at the front 'pop' more. The plum colour at the base of my butterfly is photographing more pink looking than it is in real life.

Using the sizzix tattered florals die, I cut out some calico. I sprayed the material with a water mister to dampen and then pressed into it the remaining paint I still had on my pieces of cut n dry foam. I scrunched the material up and pulled at the fibres, finally leaving them in little balls to dry. Once dried I teased the petals back out and using my leaf stamp I stamped some Plum Archival on for more shading. Finally, adding my little embellishment

My leaves were stamped onto the piece of paper I had applied paint to earlier. I inked various Archival ink colours on my stamp as used earlier to bring the canvas together. I cut them out and pressed into my versamark and embossed with a thick embossing powder to keep texture. I scattered Rock Candy distress glitter over them and reheated the utee to set, and edged with Treasure Gold.

Finally, I placed everything on my canvas and edged my lattice frame with 2 colours of distress glitter and rubbed in some Treasure Gold.

 
I hope I have inspired everyone to get their melt pots out.

Thanks for taking the time to look at my post and I  would love if you left me a comment.

Julie x
 

I would like to enter this into :

Cheery Lynn Fame It Challenge
Our Creative Corner - A Three Colour Challenge
Stamping Sensations - Wings , Fantasy and Fiction
Country View Challenges - Painty Pleasures
PaperArtsy Weekly Challenge

Products Used - Paperartsy Paints - Pansy, Eggplant, Chocolate Pudding, Stone, Nougat and MudSplat. Treasure Gold White Fire.

 Dies used - Cheery Lynn French Lattice Frame Small FRM132, Sizzix Tattered Florals

 Ink Pads - Archival Deep purple, Cornflower Blue, Potting Soil, Plum. Versamark and Versafine Imperial Purple. Distress Stain Picket Fence.

 Stamps used - Large butterfly Indigo Blu and various from my stash.