Mixed Media Canvas Art with Sheena Douglass 3D Stencil

Hello Everyone!

Today, I'm going to share with you one of my recent favorite piece of art! Guess what? Yes, it's a mixed media canvas.. :)

 I made this art for my best friend, who lives in Bangladesh.. She got married recently, & luckily I got a chance to send her a gift with someone! I wasn't too sure what to do, but I decided to keep the base blue & obviously create something with "Sheena" douglass collection!

At first, I created a white & prussian blue mixed background, which I loved so much, that it took me a lot of courage (?!) to start working over it! Then, to create a textured look, I used pink & mermaid teal acrylic paint over Sheena Create-A-Flower: Dissolving Planets (I made another project with this stencil. You can read about that Here). Although it looked okay, I couldn't like the result.. I was soooo confused what to add now! It took me 3 days to decide to add a flower, finally! 

I couldn't add too dimensional objects, as I had to ship it to another state & then it would be carried in the luggage. So, I decided to use this beautiful new 3D stencil from Sheena Douglass.. This is the Sheena 3D stencil- "Sunflower". I just picked an old dictionary page, pasted it to a thin cardstock, Stencilled it with yellow-orange-red for the flower & yellow-green for the leaves & stem. & then glued it on the canvas.. Then I drawed some rough details with a pen & added Glass bead gel & some Microbeads at the center.. Also, to match the background with the flowers I mixed some modeling paste & yellow paint & used it with this stencil..  

As a finishing touch, I added some white gesso splatters & painted the side of the canvas black! :) 

 

Hope you liked my art! Let me know if you would like to see more blog posts like this! 

Thank you!

Tavana <3

A Year in Crafting & New Year's Plans

Hello everyone! Happy New Year & Welcome to my blog..

It was a wonderful year alhamdulillah.. A year with lots of new experiences! Or should I say a year with Crafter's Companion! Yes, it was the best experience that could ever happen to me! Though I have almost turned into a crafter from a mixed media artist, but I am loving it..
I have had so many new experiences & got to know so much about papercrafting! I have used diecutting machine, watercolors, alcohol markers & learned about different types & sizes of paper, cuts & shapes of cards all for the first time in my life! It would have never happened to me if I wasn't blessed with this Amazing design team! Everyone related to my team is so helpful, I never felt like I don't know anything about papercrafting..
I started taking & editing better photos, Blogging about my work & also selling more on my etsy shop TAVANA CREATIONS. 

Here are photos of some cards I made for my shop for holidays & New Year...

So, for 2018, I have some plans to fulfill..

I would like to get more involved in crafting! My plan is to create at least 2 cards every month

I have realized, I miss acrylic paints & mixed media! This is my first love! so, I need to make more arts.. in any form.. May be once a month!

Art Journaling! Yes. I bought a Strathmore 500 Mixed Media Journal some days ago, and now can't wait to start! Primarily my plan is to only do mixed media journaling, may be once a month! I need to sit every week to achieve that, as none of my works are done in single sitting!

Watercoloring.. I want to experiment more on watercoloring! May be create a small tag or index card size collection with all my experimental techniques! I am not sure yet, but I do have plans for that too! 

I might give a try to youtube videos.. I have already made an experimental one (to see, click Here), but I really need to improve & learn editing a lot!

And lastly, I should show more love to my blog & the etsy shop!

I know this year will be not easy to get so much involved in crafting, as I am a Stay at home mom & all my situations & free time are unpredictable! But, still, there is no harm to plan something exciting, right? What are your plans? Do you want me to try or show something? Let me know.. & yes, please follow my blog so that you can get my updates! 

That was all for my today's post.. before saying goodbye, let me show you some of my lates DT projects for January HSN show! 

Thanks a lot for reading my loooong post, & have a very happy new year! <3

Tavana