It's time to Thrive

I am sharing a tag which I did recently using the new FabScraps C109 "A moment in time" collection.  It includes a photograph of my mom, probably taken in her mid-twenties, while she was sitting on a bench in the garden or a park.

I love the idea and look of a secret garden with butterflies and flowers so here I added Prima Marketing Inc Texture Powder by Finnabair to some green paint and painted Dusty Attic chipboards, adding some decorative moss around it to give it an old garden feel.

I added some vines around the photo and circle of the chipboard, adding some white gesso to give everything an "old" look.

The pebbles were painted with white gesso and then rubbed with Prima Marketing Inc ArtAlchemy Metallique Wax by Finnabair in White Gold.

Hope you like it!

Captured

I have so many beautiful nieces who are living all over the world. This is a photo of my brother's middle daughter and I love how the light reflects across her face making it look as if she's either in the middle of a forest or under the ocean.

I really LOVE the colours in this canvas.  Here I used paints Prima Marketing Inc ArtAlchemy paints by Finnabair in Metallique (Romance Pink) and Sparks (Butterfly Spells and Unicorn's Hair) as well as a Dazzle dye spray by Enmarc in Eggshell.

I had some Dusty Attic chipboard which I wanted to use and when removed them from their "casing", I decided to use that on my project as well.

I heat embossed the chipboard with Ranger Sticky Embossing Powder and then, when it was still hot and sticky, I rubbed some gold foil over it so that it stuck to the stickiness of the embossing powder.  So easy!

I decided to leave the flowers as is - no gesso or inks - because they looked so beautiful and clean against the pinks and golds of the paint.

Once I had completed gesso'ing and painting, I added some of Finnabair's ArtAlchemy Metallique Wax in White Gold over some of the elements to bring out the detail.

This makes me happy 💗