Getting Crafty With Canvas

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Hello and welcome back to my Wednesday post for Frilly and Funkie.  I'm hosting this fortnight and my challenge is to use canvas.  I love using textiles in my art and canvas is such a fun and versatile fabric to use. You can die cut it, emboss it, dye it by spraying or dipping. You can use it in its raw state, coat the reverse side with gesso or multi medium to prevent fraying or use the sticky back kind. You can stamp on it and make embellishments (flowers :) with it. Oh, so many fun ways to use it in our art. I hope you will join us in this challenge.  How are you going to use canvas?

I couldn't resist using canvas to make my flowers.  Especially since I decided to triple up on this challenge.  I also made my tag to fit Tim Holtz's August tag challenge as well as Linda Ledbetter's Compendium of Curiosities 2 challenge this week which is page 54 of Tim Holtz's compendium II - Perfect Pearls mist technique.  

To make my tag, since I don't have many colors of paint dabbers, I mixed Snow Cap with a couple of drops of Tattered Rose distress reinkner and applied it as Tim shows on his blog.  Then I inked it with Vintage Photo distress ink, using a damp paper towel to clean the distress ink of the raised parts where I had applied the acrylic ink.  My frame stamp is from Inka-dinka-do and the center stamp is an old SU set - Friendship's Journey.  I used distress markers to color my stamp before I stamped the heart and the flourish.  Then I applied my favorite UTEE technique ( a really thin layer then sponged with Vintage Photo) to both pieces.  

The flowers were cut from canvas with the Tattered Pinecone die and the canvas leaves with the Tattered Leaves die.  For the branches, I cut gray chipboard and then painted it white with a snow cap paint dabber.  When dry it was inked with a bit of Peeled Paint an coated with Rock Candy Distress Crackle Paint, then dabbed with a Vintage Photo distress stain dabber.  The Vintage Lace die was used to cut Ranger Foil Tape which was painted with Pitch Black paint dabber and the paint was wiped off before it fully dried.   For a final step, the entire piece was misted with Perfect Pearls mist in Perfect Pearl shade.  The whole piece was finished off with a crinkled seam binding bow and a couple of baubles I created with some of my jewelry making materials.  

I love the sweet romantic look of this tag - hope you enjoyed looking at it too.  Now hop on over to Frilly and Funkie to see what the Frilly designers have done with canvas.  I'm sure you will be inspired.    Thanks so much for stopping by.  Hope to see an entry from YOU this week at Frilly and Funkie.









The following products used to make this tag can be purchased at The Funkie Junkie Boutique.

Jumbo Manila Shipping Tags 8x4"	Perfect Pearls Perfect Pearl	Ranger Foil Tape Sheets	Foil Tape Sheets
Alternations Mini Hearts Movers & Shapers	Distress Markers - Set of 37	Chit Chat Stickers	Damask and Regal Flourishes Texture Fades
Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel (UTEE)	Alterations Tattered Leaves Die	Alterations Tattered Pine Cone Die	Alterations Vintage Lace Die
Rock Candy Distress Crackle Paint	Meadow Adirondack Color Wash	Vintage Photo Distress Stain	Vintage Photo Distress Ink
Snow Cap Acrylic Paint Dabber	Rayon Seam Binding	Ivory Venise Lace Butterflies	Ranger Adirondack Acrylic Paint Dabber - Pitch Black
Tim Holtz Tattered Rose Distress Reinker	Distress Ink - Peeled Paint

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