Pumpkin Canvas

Hi, how are you doing? Hope you had a good weekend.

 

Today my talented DT sister, Caroline, has asked us to use pumpkins in our challenge over at BBTB2.

I decided to make some home décor.

 



 

 

My canvas is 6 x 4.

I painted it with weathered wood and willow paints and added some walnut stain and spun sugar  distress ink and stencils.

My cuts were at 8" from Artbooking with the Autumn title at 5.25".

 

I added heirloom gold to my pumpkin.

Autumn Bronze Gilding Wax, you can click here to see my video tutorial.

Lancashire Rose Gilding Flakes, you can click here for my video tutorial.

 

 

I inked and scrunched my cuts.

Added lots of foam pads and silicone glue for dimension.

 

I loved how this turned out!

 

I know, picture heavy but they just don't do it justice!

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Canvas

Hi Everyone,hope you are having a good Wednesday.This weather here is still amazing! Over at The Paper Variety they are having a 'Let's get Messy' challenge to use mists,inks or paints.I love using my cricut but altered art and inking are some of my personal favourites. So I am the proud owner of filthy inky hands and this is what I came up with..

Anyone who follows my blog will know I have made mini canvses with Tim Holtz's bird cage die and tags with the sewing dummy,but this is  a much bigger canvas for me.This has been upcycled from a previous attempt which has sat at the back of my cupboard for years! It measures 5x5" which compared to my usual 3x2" is huge for me.Lol!

The previous picture was of green hills and houses so I needed to apply 2 layers of cream acrylic paint.I applied it with an old cosmetic sponge thickly for texture and used my heat gun to dry every layer of paint and ink I applied...yes I really am that impatient!

I applied sweeps of Tim Holtz's distress stain in broken china randomly over the canvas.(Everything except cream paint,heart and pin is Ranger or Tim).I then added dashes of  cloudy blue Adirondack acrylic dabber directly to the canvas and blended.

All sides were edged with vintage photo distress ink.I then used various Stampers Anonymous stamps and used black adirondack,fired brick and weathered wood distress inks to apply them directly to the canvas.The advantage of the big canvas was that I could run my fingers over the stamp from the inside to get a good image.Distress ink smudges easily at this stage and took a lot of heat gun drying!

Sewing die inked with vintage photo and walnut stain,thick calico cut,stamped,inked and added with a ribbon and heart,

Bird and cage die cut out of grungeboard(I love this stuff).Distress stained,lake mist,willow,aqua and cloudy blue adirondack dabbers to try and make cage slightly verdi gris.Edged with gold krylon.

Medium and mini rosette die cut and inked.

As always I love dimension and used strong glue on 3d foam to attach dummy and cage.

Ribbon was distress inked before tying on dummy.

I am entering this atGetting Cricky - sew fabulous.A very inspirational site.

I am really pleased with how this turned out and am going to display this in my living room.Thanks for looking.Hugs,Jayne x

Altered Mini Canvas

A friend of mine,who has had some pretty tough times but remains an amazing lady is moving to Devon. I wanted to make a 'little' something for her that was small enough to take with her as most of her things are going into storage for a while.
This little canvas represents Spring and new beginnings.Really hope she likes it.

Recipe

3x2" mini canvas painted cream

Antique Linen and Vintage Photo to distress,sprayed with heirloom gold Perfect Pearls Mist

The shading doesn't show well in the photos as far more pronounced in real life!(Probably my photography skills - or lack of them!) Lol.

Rock Candy distress stickles on lower part of canvas

Branch,bird and cage - Tim Holtz dies - grungeboard

Branch -vintage photo

Bird and cage,adirondack paints & gold krylon pen

Flower - tattered florals smallest flower - cut 3x out of white paper,inked with spun sugar,stamped with prima text and glimmer misted

Mini red flower button

Heart charm from old necklace

I am entering this into The Paper Variety challenge this week - to use a flower or flowers.Hope it meets their criteria as although it's a canvas,the flower is made from paper.

Thanks for stopping by.Enjoy the weekend.

Jayne x

Alison's Birthday

It's my friend's 40th and tonight we are out to celebrate. So.......today I have made a canvas for her and wanted to share with you.

I painted and distressed canvas board. Everything else cut and made on my cricut machine before being ink distressed and glimmer misted. Not  sure that all the detail is showing, I will get better at photography!!!
Cricut cartridges used - George and Basic Shapes, Plantin Schoolbook

I will be running some classes in the coming months, more details to follow, feel free to drop me an email.