Elephants on Parade (well almost) for Wednesday Stamper and Corrosive Challenge

Ooo, I hadn't done a canvas for ages but have had 3 primed with the emulsion colour from our newly painted spare bedroom ready to make into mini works of art for about a month. So when I saw the challenge for Wednesday Stamper was for Trees and then Corrosive Challenge for texture I thought how about combine the 2.

As I said the canvas was originally coated with a layer of a peachy emulsion (my own mixture from white and a match pot). I made a moon mask from a 1" punch and then using Adirondack dabbers and a wet wipe swooshed sailboat blue, red pepper and cranberry to make up the sky. A bit of butterscotch was swooshed across the lower half of the canvas and then lettuce dabbed along the bottom edge.

I can't remember where the elephant scene came from but I stamped it with Stazon onto tissue and then tore around it and using gel medium stuck it to the canvas. The edging is from stamping Hero Arts 'woodland branches' in Adirondack lettuce dabber along the bottom third and with black stazon around the rest. Finally I used a peach dabber to frame the complete canvas.

Then I wasn't happy.......

So I set up my melt pot.....actually its a pan and an enamel bowl, over the hob and melted some beeswax and applied and melted and applied and scraped until I was happy with the finished product. It looks much more blended now and the beeswax adds to the texture of the finished piece.

I hope you like it and the challenge links are below, x

http://wednesdaystamper.wordpress.com/2010/04/07/trees-2/

http://corrosivechallengesbyjanet.blogspot.com/2010/04/corrosive-challenges-59_11.html