Cowgirl Valentine

Howdy There!!  Thanks for joining me here at the Artistic Outpost Blog today for my weekly project--Hope you're all having a Fab Sunday!!  I'm trying to change my creative mood from Winter into any other season, really, but today, I've got a little mixed-media canvas to share, that might invoke the Season of Love...

I think if a young woman states she'll be your Valentine, you better listen, especially accompanied with eyes like these!!  This vexing vixen is from our Cowgirl Strength stamp set--Love Her!-and I just had to make her center stage on this fun little canvas.

 

 

This canvas is 3 3/4" x 4" and I gave it a coating of white gesso and added a few pieces of book page.

I pressed Barn Door, Picked Raspberry & Seedless Preserves Distress Paints onto the TH Hearts stencil and spritzed with water. 

I pressed the stencil onto the canvas and blotted away any excess with a paper towel.  I heat set then laid the stencil back down into place. 

I applied a layer of Crackled Texture Paste through the stencil with my palette knife and set aside to air dry. 

I die cut a bunch of Tattered Florals out of red, pink and burgundy card stocks and stamped with images from our Ephemera Backgrounds, The Outpost & Kudzu Kafe stamp sets.

 
I spritzed the stamped flowers with water and wadded into little balls and let air dry.  When they were dry, I rubbed them with Ground Espresso DI then opened each flower and inked the edges, too.  I also had some previously cut tulle Tattered Florals, that I brushed with some white gesso and spritzed with Candied Apple DSS. 

 

I stamped this silent beauty onto coffee stained mixed-media paper with Jet Black Archival, heat embossed with clear EP and fussy cut.  I had also stamped the entire image onto tissue paper and adhered to the surface of the canvas with matte Decou-Page--you can kind of see the frame around her. 

 

 

I adhered my Cowgirl Valentine image onto the canvas with matte Decou-Page and outlined her with a wash of DAM Translucent White Acrylic and heat set, then I outlined her again with Hickory Smoke DI using my water brush.   

 

 

I stamped the quote out onto coffee stained mixed-media paper using alphabet stamps that I have, and fussy cut into word bands.  Those got mounted onto black card stock and adhered to the canvas with matte Decou-Page, then I hot glued the finished Tattered Floral into place.    

 

Thanks again for stopping by today!  I sure enjoy being here to share weekly projects with you--How about sharing your Artistic Outpost art with us? 

 

You've got 7 more days to enter our Show Us Your AO Art Challenge for January, so bring your Artistic Outpost creations over before 11:55pm CST on the 31st for the chance to win a $15.00 AO gift certificate!  Hope to see you there!! 

 

Designer: Shari Trumbull
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