Blue Flower Canvas

I have several box canvases in my attic that I bought at bargain prices years ago, hoping that I would actually use them one day.  Well, this week I took the plunge and slapped some paint on one, after being inspired by this post by Ellen Vargo at Paper Artsy.

Ellen's canvas

Ellen had stamped into the layers of paste on her canvas - I just attacked mine with some gesso and a credit card, then some antique cream, white and smoky blue paint, mixing them directly on the canvas.  I sponged Distress Inks (Dusty Concord, Chipped Sapphire, Salty Ocean) onto a spare piece of card, then stamped the leaf/petal stamps from E Lin Brown 07 several times, cut them out and mounted them onto the canvas with red liner tape.  I drew the stems with a navy Sharpie pen.  For reference, my canvas is about 15 x 11 inches (381 x 304cm).  Here are a few close-ups of the detail and texture.

I've been dying to play along with Darnell's NBUS challenge, but everything I've made lately has been with used schtuff rather than NBUS.  But that has now been rectified thanks to the languishing canvas.  It now hangs in my craft room, as it matches the colour scheme - by coincidence rather than design!