Eileen Hull and Crescent Framed Together!

Eileen Hull and Crescent Collaborate!

Today I have chosen to work with Crescent Photo Mat Art Board.

Eileen's new Flower - Heart & Soul

Eileen's Thinlits Die Set - Flower & Leaf Stitchlits

You will also need:

Crinoline fabric

Deco Art Media products

Card stock - I used Tim Holtz

Stencil

Beacon Fabri-Tac adhesive

Distress ink - Vintage Photo

Using a stencil and DecoArt Media Modeling Paste, add some texture onto the Mat Art Board

Tear some paper and place on Art Board, move them around till they appeal to you

Using DecoArt Matte Medium adhere the torn papers to the Art Board

Here is mine

I decided to add some distress inks. Now set aside to let the Modeling Paste dry

Let's make flowers!

Love, LOVE, Love these new flower dies!

I am mixing new with the old. Really, the old are not that old!

Using Crinoline fabric cut out a bunch of flowers using the die Heart & Soul and the 

Thinlits Flower & Leaf Stitchlits

I made 2 large flowers and 4 small flowers

Lots of petals used. I wanted the flowers to really be full. This flower I used the sepal as a center to make it look like it is still opening

Adhered the 3 petals together and then the next three loosely adhered

Finished flower is GORGEOUS!

I also crumble the cuts to make the flowers look fuller.

Let's get our paint on to this Art Board.

I am using these colors for my palette.

I just lightly applied the fluid acrylics with a damp paper towel. I kept applying until I felt it was finished.

I used the computer to print out my saying and distressed the paper and inked it and adhere it to the Art Board using pop dots.

I adhered the flowers on with Beacon Mixed Media adhesive.

I also added a key hole  and some beautiful gems to the piece.

I still felt it was not done and added some distress inking using Tim Holtz's distress ink Vintage Photo

I have to say, I LOVED the way the paints and mediums went on to the Crescent Art Mat Board. I did receive this free as part of the collaboration but, in my opinion this is a great substrate to work with and I enjoyed working with it very much and would use it again and recommend it!

Once I was in LOVE with my piece, I added a vintage photo of my grandparents.

Popped it in a frame and it is Stunning, if I do say so myself!

Make sure you check out what the other DT members have done this month. Go to Eileen Hull blog to check it out!