The Girls by Suzanne Franin

Hey Everyone Suzanne here

This is my take on the RED Mood Board challenge 

This is my daughter and her girls on her wedding night by this stage they were very merry and had enjoyed the evening

This months Challenge is RED 
The mood board bellow is for inspiration and you can use that as a starting point but you MUST use RED
There are 3 x $50 vouchers to win
One for a card 
One for a layout
One for a journal page/mixed media project 
Check out the Art and Soul Mixed Media Blog for more Details

And make sure to share your project to the Soul Sisters Facebook Group for the chance to win

Some of the metal I was lucky enough to have leftover from doing Finnabair's classes in early November I flew up to Hervey Bay just to do the classes and meet Annette and Amanda and was lucky enough to meet lots of other lovely ladies too

And of course meet my Mixed Media Idol Finn what a beautiful soul so down to earth and she was so patient with everyone wanting photos and autographs (I didn't do either I felt bad to ask)

Thats how I found out about the embellishments under the glass counter and a few other bits that haven't made it to the website - there are SO many things in the store so if you're after something check with them and you never know they may have it that's why sometimes I may use something that's not on the site

so as you can see all my pieces are painted red I started off by painting them with clear gesso 

Then painted them with Finnabair's Acrylic Metallique Royal Red and it wasn't quite the colour I wanted so I added a coat of the Red Wine over the top it's so rich not that you can tell by the photos

I used the Dusty Attic Mandala Stencil with some Finnabair Heavy Body Gel when it dried I painted it the same as the embellishments 

The metal embellishments are a mix of Finnabair mechanicals, Art and Soul Studio (from under he glass counter make sure to take a look) and the large flower is a Little Birdie Sharon Cherry

Heres a close up of the little bird in the cage - the place the wedding was held is called the Budgie Smuggler so I had to put a bird there (they have a huge cage of budgies as you walk in it's so cool)

The Pearls underneath are from Frank Garcia Memory Hardware Pearls  

This is one of the embellishments that live under the glass counter (they are all silver to start with)

I used Finnabair's Art Alchemy Metallique Wax in Old Silver over the top of everything to show all the details some of it is just from how the paint strokes left their mark 

I love the Little Birdie Flowers they are textured so when I rubbed the wax it enhanced the texture

I used Finnabair's Art Pebbles on the page these are so versatile and make great space fillers

I used the was on these after painting them with the clear gesso first 

Products I used from Art and Soul Studio

Dusty Attic Mandala Stencil (sold out)

Little Birdie Sharon Cherry Flowers

Finnabair Art Alchemy Acrylic Paint Royal Red

Finnabair Art Alchemy Acrylic Paint Red Wine

Finnabair Art Basics Gesso Clear (sold out)

Finnabair Art Pebbles (sold out)

Finnabair Mechanicals (sold out)

Finnabair Art Alchemy Métallique Wax Old Silver (sold out)

Finnabair Art Basics Heavy Body Gel (could still have some in store)

Frank Garcia Memory Hardware Pearls (could still have some in store)

Frank Garcia Memory Hardware Resin Frame Oval (Sold Out)

Lace (from my stash)

Kaisercraft White Cardstock Coconut (Sold Out)

Thank you for visiting and I hope you come back again soon x