2017 #17 White: Poinsettia Wall Hanging with EEV {by Wanda Hentges}

2017 Topic 17: Shades of White

White on white on white and repeat. How stunning is this by Wanda! Well perhaps some off white creeps in, but you do need that contrast, and its wonderful!

Hi everyone, it's Wanda Hentges (Art By Wanda) with you today, and I'd like to share with you a wall hanging in shades of white.

I was looking through my Ellen Vargo stamps trying to decide just what I was going to create thinking about Shades of White and thinking about Christmas.  When I saw set number EEV04, I immediately thought poinsettia and so began my project.

PaperArtsy Products used:

• Eclectica by Ellen Vargo
•    Set 02
•    Set 04
•    Set 06
• Heavy Smoothy Cardstock
• Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylics
•    Chalk
•    Vanilla
•    Honey Dew
•    Snowflake
• Fresco Finish Metallic Acrylics
•    Gold
•    White Fire

Other Products:

• Corrugated Packing 
• Chipboard
• White Corrugated Cardboard
• Golden Gesso
• Golden Heavy Gel Matte
• Archival Ink - Potting Soil, Leaf Green
• Tim Holtz Poinsettia Stencil
• Ranger Texture Paste
• Ranger Distress Dry Glitter - Rock Candy
• Ranger Mica Spray - Pearl
• Susan's Garden Flower Shaping Tools and Mats
• Prills - Minnie Pearls
• White 1/8" Eyelets
• White Wire
• Fibers
• Tim Holtz Holiday Talk Metallic Sticker

I didn't trust myself to free hand cut the "petals" for my poinsettia so I made a pattern.  I stamped one image on a scrap piece of paper, sketched around it, cut it out and also cut some of the center out so I could line it up over my actual petals. 

Eclectica³ Ellen Vargo Set04 (EEV04)

As I got more comfortable cutting I did add other spikes on the edges so they didn't all appear exactly the same.  I began my flower thinking I was going to do a simple poinsettia, just 5 leaves and call it good.  For those first 5 I painted heavy smoothy with Chalk and stamped the image with a mix of approximately half and half, Gold and Vanilla. Once I had them cut out and tried putting my flower together, I was unhappy with it and decided I needed many more petals.  I did 10 more, 5 with a mix of Gold and Honey Dew and 5 with a mix of Gold and Chalk.  Mixing the paints worked really well!!!  The colors look kind of pearly, the hint of Gold keeps them tied together but it's more interesting because they aren't all exactly the same.  

To give more definition to my petals, I pulled out my flower shaping tools. 

After shaping them all I found a 5-petal flower punch in my stash and built my poinsettia off of that.

I absolutely loved the poinsettia once it was done and knew this had to become a home decor piece.  I have quite a bit of corrugate that is covered on one side and wide open corrugate on the other.  I know it came as packaging in something at one time.  I decided it would be perfect.  I coated the corrugate side with gesso, wiped it back with a baby wipe and splattered it with White Fire.  I had thought about stamping it or stamping tissue and gluing it on but then decided another panel between the corrugate and the poinsettia would be better.

For this final panel, on top of stamping and a white wash, I created lots of texture, shimmer and shine with Paste, Mica Spray and Glitter.  Some fluffy fibers to cover the center as the stencil wasn't large enough to cover the whole panel.  I made a line down the middle and worked the stencil out from the center on both sides.  This piece really sets the poinsettia off nicely!!!!

You will find more pictures showing step-by-step how I did the panels on my blog.

I was actually very nervous about trying to do something in Shades of White but am totally in love with my finished piece!!!  I hope you are inspired to play along with the challenge.  Please be sure to link up your play as I'd love to come see it!!!

Hugs, Wanda

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I think this is wonderful! I really love the idea of a white poinsettia, and I think your sparkly panel it sits on is perfect too! Just shows how many shades of white you can make and how effective it can be to work with tones of one pale shade! Beautiful, and thankyou! ~Leandra

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