Paper Wing Productions Design Team May Blog Hop & Giveaway

Welcome to the Paper Wing Productions Design Team Blog Hop & Giveaway!

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Are you ready for our May Blog Hop? The theme for this month is Thank You. We hope you will hop through and find inspiration for your own projects. If you complete the hop, you will be eligible to win an awesome prize!

The prize is a $25.00 gift certificate to the Paper Wings Productions online store. For a chance to win all you need to do is:

• Become a follower of the Paper Wings Productions blog.
• Visit each of the participating designer's blogs and leave a comment.
• Leave a comment on the Paper Wings Productions blog telling us you completed the hop.

To increase your chances of winning: like our Facebook page and/or invite your friends to the hop. Be sure to leave a separate comment for each of your additional entries. The winner will be announced on Tuesday, May 8, 2018 on the Paper Wings Productions blog.

For this blog post, I decided to use a painting that I have been working on lately. This is the month of our Lady, thus, who best to thank than her. I have been making this mixed media painting for my daughter and even though is not completely finish, it showcases my thanks to Our Lady of the Valley and to Venezuela (for more info about the Virgin, please click here and here):

I still need to retouch a lot of the veil and the dress because it got messed up with the heat gun...
I took inspiration on these images and combined in this mixed media creation:

I took the background idea from this painting I found online:

I decided to used tissue paper in the Venezuelan flag vibrant colors and modpodge it to the canvas.

Then I added clear gesso to the whole background and white to the Virgin image and the 6 starts.

Then I tried to paint it and darken the background some.

Later I went with a little of white, but I wasn't happy with it yet.

I used some crackling paste and mixed it with gold acrylics and added some flourish to add some shine to the back of the Virgin.

After taking my teachers advice, I made the figure of the Virgin narrower...

I still didn't like my background as much, thus, I did more stencilling using TH stencils and darken paintings. I also added some Pearl embossing paste (Farber Castle) and stencilled the stars.

For the dress decoration, I decided to used PWP Building a Shrine cling stamps. And heat embossed using Versa Mark ink and Egyptian Gold podwer.

However, my heating gun messed up my white paint and let it show the other layers... I need to fix this now.

I painted the stars and the crown gold using liquid leaf ink.

I love how it makes the texture of the stars more evident.

I still need to glue the decenary and the crown, and to add some Pearl pen to the edges of the veil, but for now it's ok.

I love how the stamps work so great as the dress decoration.

I hope you liked my work in progress.

Make sure to head on over to Dana's Blog next!

***Here is the complete hop lineup just in case you get lost along the way***

Ashley

Larissa

Veronica

Dana

Paper Wings Productions Blog

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US TODAY!

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Let Your Creativity Take Flight!

I'm participating in the following challenges too:

http://mixedmediaworld.blogspot.com/2018/05/may-2018-challenge-ammg-with-moodboard.html?m=1

All the sea bellow the boat.

http://rheddscreativespirit.blogspot.com/2018/05/may-challenge.html?m=1

http://alteredeclectics.blogspot.com/2018/05/may-challenge.html?m=1

https://kreativeinkauf-challenge.blogspot.com/2018/04/62-vom-1504-bis-140518.html

Mai ist die Virgin Frau's Monat.

http://ainkymess.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/challenge-20_25.html

https://craftstamper.blogspot.co.uk/2018/05/take-it-make-it-challenge-may.html?m=1