Maya Road Design Team: Create Art Mixed Media Canvas

Hi Roadies! It's Melody here on the blog today. I have a mixed media canvas to share with you today. Next month I am going to be moving to a new home and my new studio! This canvas is my first project for the new room! I used the Fanciful Create Art Steel Dies for inspiration.

I started with an 8 x 8 canvas and painted the canvas with a pale yellow paint. When the paint was dry I sprayed on a white distress stain and splattered white paint. When the canvas had completely dry I used a stencil and a light texture paste to add texture to the background.

I cut the words three times from white card stock and layered them together to add more depth. The sentiment is layered on a Corrugated Kraft Mail Tag and I added a Mini Arrow Charm to accent the tag.

Maya Road has so many beautiful embellishments and dies! In keeping with the art theme, I cut two flowers from watercolor paper with the Geometric Blossom Die, and watercolored the flowers with pretty blue and green watercolors. I added the flowers to two of the corners to anchor my embellishments. Next I just played with my embellishments until I came up with a look and feel that felt right to me. I used the Rolled Flower Die to create to two flowers from felt. I love the touch of texture felt can give to a project.

I added a few more flowers, a Tulle Mini Blooms in Milk White, a small and medium Vintage Paper Flower, and a pearl flower. Under the pearl flower is a Ornate Resin Frame in Seafoam. I finished the corner off with a Metal Vintage Trinkets - @ Clip and a wooden token is from the Wood Geometric Shape Tokens.

I picked up a very inexpensive paint brush and added a couple coats to Gesso the the brush. Once the Gesso had dried I added a strip of Self-Adhesive Rhinestone Trim in Sparkle Silver, two strips of Vintage Rick Rack Crochet Trim in Cloud White, and a Crystal Circle Button. The My Story token from the Wood 24/7 Journaling Tokens and just seemed perfect for the canvas! Then I had to add one of my favorite embellishments, a Vintage Oh Snap Camera.