Welcome to Miriam's Crafting Supplies First Design Team Blog Hop!!

I am very happy to announce that I'll be working with Miriam's Crafting Supplies as part of her Design Team, with Several other very Talented Ladies.. 

Miriam's Crafting Supplies are a great product at a great price.. all those little accents you need to add the perfect touch to a project she has them. She also carries Lace, Adhesive Tapes, and More..


 Check out My Butterfly Series of ATC's where using Miriam's flat back iridescent rhinestones and a wooden butterfly button added just the right touch these ATC's Needed.

Now be sure to check out the rest of the Talented Ladies on the Team and see what fab creations they have to share with you...

Miriam: http://www.miriamscraftingblog.com/

You are Here: http://www.scrapndare.blogspot.com/

Lynn: http://slasewcraftiness.blogspot.com/

Tracy: http://lovesbuggin.blogspot.com/

Jearise: http://www.lorbysworld.blogspot.com/

Thanks So Much For Stopping By...

Virginia Dare

One of my newest creations: Self Portrait on Canvas

I've recently started branching into mixed-media art, and hope to start doing mixed media art journaling.

This is a piece that I worked on awhile first by doing a drawing, and I am not much of a drawer.

Second by doing a digital and finally by putting it all together in this canvas I titled " Transformation"

I tried to do a photo transfer on the background of the canvas board after I painted it, well that didn't work to well- so I decided to go with using a printable transparency for ink jet printers and printed off the main photo.

So now how do I make it appear as if it was painted on and not just laid on top.  I took a bone folder while my background paint- I used acrylic paint-was still wet and rubbed over the transparency til it picked up the texture from the background.. that looked pretty cool. Then I added more of the purple paint to the top, coming back with some white and just pouncing it onto the canvas and transparency.

Next I added the butterfly mask using liquid lead for the outline and stickles for the colors. Added some bling to finish it off.

But I still had space to play with so out came the Wild Orchid Craft Roses, in white which I sprayed with Lindy's Stamp Gang,  French Lilac Spray. I also added some smaller Roses as well from Prima.

The ostrich feathers from Consumer crafts seem to be a great edition to the canvas as well so on they went.

Then I said I need a few more butterflies so  I added the three small butterflies I had purchased from Consumer Crafts which were white, that again I hit with French Lilac Spray. The larger butterfly from the Dollar Tree,  already had silver glitter, and bling, but of course I had to hit that with some Lindy's too.

All in all I am happy with how this turned out and loved that I figured out how to make it work after I failed in my first attempt with transferring a printed image to canvas.  Just grab your fave digital software, and a printable Transparency sheet and little paint and some embellishments and see what you can come up with.. if you mess up keep going like I did and you may surprise yourself.