therapy for mama

it was super fun to get together with girlfriends and work on this painting a few weeks ago, but it just wasn't something i loved... and, this picture:

kept coming to mind that i had pinned for a future project day. there's no link to the original source from pinterest.  i tried to find it, but no luck.  i did, however, find another blogger that posted a pic of her version:

  

and funny enough, she was unable to find the original source either. 

 

anyway, back to the therapy discussion:  canvas in hand, a few leftover bottles of craft paint, and some fun paper at a scrapbook retreat for a couple of days...

 

this is one of the first things i worked on while i was there.  just painted over the phone booth and went to work on this guy.

 

 

i punched a large circle out of printed paper for the center and then made a template for the petals that i loosely followed.

 

the pieces are all adhered with mod podge, which goes on white like this:

 

and then dries clear like this:

 

once it dried, i trimmed the pieces sticking off the edges and coated the whole thing again with mod podge - so the sheen would all be the same, plus i wanted it nice and sealed.  added a few little rhinestones to the polka dotted paper and called it done!

 

 

it's in its happy little home on my kitchen counter now.  and i love it!