Lol, is the song in your head now?
I just wanted to show you this fabulous window by Woodouts that I altered for myself,
I love creating, and so I mixed my love for mixed media with my love of art, fussy cutting, layering, chipboards, textures and colouring with paints etc and of course Holidays!!
I saw the awesome colour challenge over at Dusty Attic and thought it would go perfectly for my design,
The moodboard has palm trees on, oh be still my beating heart!! I don't know why but I love love love palm trees, yep my idea of holiday heaven!! lol
So my tropical scene has one,
It's a MDF one I've had in my stash for ages probably years just waiting for the right time, I painted it with Finnabair paints then with Lindy's Gang too, I added some Dusty Attic pearls in the middle of the leaves for some texture too,
The main window frame which like I said is from Woodouts have you seen the other stuff they do, I mean yes please, they do a gorgeous seahorse which I really need too!!! lol
any way I went a bit off track there, so the window frame is painted first with white Gesso then I went over with Finnabair stone effect paste, this added fab texture here and there, when dry I again painted it with some Finnabair paints then went over with Lindy's Gang her and there as well, I finished off at the last minute with some Finnabair wax,
As I mentioned I wanted to add some Art into my design so I used a Antique frame by Dusty Attic which I painted with some burlap acrylic paint by Finnabair, then I cut a piece of canvas to fit behind, coloured a background as if the start of a scene and glued it behind the frame, my posh canvas, lol the paint brush keeps in the theme, I fussy cut out some seaside images from Mintay and layered these up with cut off pieces of chipboard, recycling!!! he he
Below this is a piece of cheesecloth which I coloured first with some watered down Burlap paint, dried it and glued it onto my window frame,
on the right I added some D/A Fishing Net, you can just see it if you look, this I trimmed down into shape, coloured with two colours of Finnabair paints and swiped a little white Gesso and burplap paint over the top with a wet wipe, I will tell you below how I did this,
At the side of my brush I added a fabulous Resin Beach Hut by Sarah, I simply added some white Gesso first then when dry took some metallic paint by Finnabair onto a doubled over piece of wet wipe which was over my finger, dabbed off some excess then swiped it over the hut, this gives a fabulous weather beaten effect, all sun drenched and salty air!!! well in my head anyway!!!
I added some drift wood again by D/A below which I painted first with white Gesso, then again swiped some of the burlap paint over the top,, then when nearly dry took a clean piece of wet wipe and swiped some of the burlap paint off, this gave a beached look to the wood,,
I layered up some Art stones and real shells plus a fussy cut star fish, as well as a D/A Ships Wheel which I had coloured in the same way as the frame but I then went over with some Lindy's gang Magicals here and there too,
I added a metal Label, added some twine to the ends, glued it in place then finished off my scene with a D/A Bird and a few flowers from my stash,
Well I hope you like it, it's my Paradise and would love to be there, lol
Products used;
Finnabair - impasto paint - Burlap, Mediterranean,
metallic paint - Emerald Ocean, Gold Rush
Stone Effect paste,
Art Stones,
Wax - Mint Sparkle,
Mechanicals - Antique Labels
Lindy's gang;
Flat magical - Ocean Breeze,
Magicals - Mermaid Seashells, Opal Sea Oats
Dusty Attic chipboards;
Fish net, Small ships wheel, birds, drift Wood,
The Resin Shop - Beach hut
Woodouts are having a DT call at the minute, why not check it out,
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Happy Crafting!!!
