Dabbling with Decor

When we decorated our bedroom a while ago we swapped the wallpaper we inherited when we bought the house for plain walls.  Our bedding is an eau de nil colour so I thought I would have a go at making something for the wall:

I started with a 12 x 12 canvas and painted it with a mixture of paperartsy fresco paints (but I now can't remember what combination I used - must do better at keeping notes!).

I used a Craftwork Cards large dress form shape (bought it at their warehouse sale as part of a job lot), painted it brown and covered it with paper which I stamped with a Hero Arts script stamp.  Next step was to make lots of paper cones using Theresa Collins papers and glue them on with a hot glue gun.  Her bodice is finished off with folded paper, lace and fabric roses and I stencilled around the edge of the canvas with grey paint.

Next job was a cheap white frame I bought in The Range:

I "distressed" it by painting it with gold acrylic paint and then wiping lots off,  I die cut lots of spellbinder butterflies from various papers, stuck them on a trimmed piece of cream card stock and put them in the frame.

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