Breast Cancer Awareness Collage

At McMahon Five Designs, Shawne (Studio 313) drew our BCA image for this month.  I feel in love with it the minute I saw it and new that I wanted to make a collage with it using some batik type paper that I had in my stash.  This is the result.

Remember, if you promise to do your monthly self check, this image is free in the store!

I used a few collage techniques on this one.  I cut a piece of DP from the same stack the batik paper was in for the background and then covered the whole thing with a very light coat of soft pink paint.  I then stenciled butterflies onto the background with a sand colored paint.  While waiting for that to dry, I printed the image on the batik paper and on music paper and cut them out.  I podged the images to the canvas and then started shading and highlighting the image.

Although I use music or book paper on my She Art girls, I didn’t like it on this one so I ended up coloring over it for her skin.  After painting, I re-drew the lines with a Micron pen.

I used some spackle compound, with acrylic craft paint added for color, and a stencil to make the little doily designs and then did an image transfer with the sentiment that I had printed out in reverse.  After all that was dry I added a few rubons to complete the look.

I didn’t do as much to the background as I  normally do because I’m giving this to my mother, who is a breast cancer survivor, and she likes a cleaner look.  While working on this, I got the idea to make some of these using this and some of the other BCA images from M5D and take them to the Cancer Center where my mother went for treatment.  She thought that was a great idea.  I think that they would be a wonderful addition to the packages that they give the patients when they come in for their first treatments.  Maybe give them a little strength to get through the procedures.

For those who might be wondering, my mother is almost at the 5 year mark so that’s all great news!!!

I hope you enjoyed my creation today!!!

Blessings,

Christine