Wednesday, August 8, 2012

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.

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Saturday, August 4, 2012

Back With Bling

 
All righty then, I'm back from vacation and the boutique will officially open on Monday.  Shipping will resume on a first-come/first-served basis.   I had a lovely break, but definitely missed my little store and all my fabulous customers.  I had my laptop with me on vacation and was busy tracking down new products and placing orders.  New and seasonal products will be arriving over the next couple of weeks.

And here I am again for my weekly Our Creative Corner post.  This week, one of our new teamies, Paula McClane is our hostess and she is challenging us to create something with both bling and natural elements.  I knew about this challenge ahead of time so when I was making up samples for the July Artistic Outpost release, I knew this MidWinter set would be absolutely perfect for this challenge.  The colors white and silver and lots of bling were dancing around in my brain.  I did the stamping, added a few TH die cut snowflakes and winter roses made with the Tattered Pinecones die, sprinkled them with chunky glitter and this delicate, elegant winter card was born.

As much as I work and work at my photography and lighting, this card still looks SO much better IRL. The snowflakes were made with crumpled parchment paper to which I applied Silver alcohol ink fixative with a felt alcohol ink applicator.  When dry, I flattened the parchment paper out and glued it to chipboard and then cut it with the TH Mini Snowflakes dies.  The left over parchment paper was cut with the Festive Greenery Decorative Strip Die to make the greenery branches.  With my still-wet alcohol ink applicator and Silver mixative, I also colored the white doily.  The only other color used was for the evergreen branches which were stamped with Iced Spruce.  And of course, the winter roses were cut with the tattered Pinecones die.

Sometimes I set out to make something with a preconceived idea and it comes out totally different.  This one was the opposite.  I had a vision in mind and it came out just the way I had envisioned it.  This  new MidWinter set from Artistic Outpost is sensational.  You are going to be seeing lots more if it before the holidays have passed.

Now stop by Our Creative Corner to see what the rest of the designers have whipped up to whet your creative appetite.  Hope you 'll be joining or challenge this week at Our Creative Corner.






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Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Renaissance Revisted

 
Hello again!  It's the Funkie week over at the current Frilly and Funkie challenge and I have made a card for Anita Houston's Renaissance Men challenge.  The challenge is to make something honoring one of the four main Renaissance Men who have inspired us all at one time or another - Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello, Raphael. Show a project depicting any one or more of their works, tell which it is, and who created it.  Here is mine for the Funkie side.  I used a copy of one of DaVinci's actual sketches that I found on the internet as the background paper.  It's a study of gears so for embellishments I used the TH Gadget Gear die.  First I covered a piece of chipboard with Ranger foil tape, cut the gears and then ran them through the Rivited texture fade.  I grunged them up a bit by applying a Pitch Black paint dabber and then rubbing most of it off.  I cut the loops off two charms from my shop with wire cutters and filed the area down, then painted them silver with Silver alcohol ink mixative and the also rubbed a bit of black acrylic paint over them to match the gears.

The sentiment is a quote from daVinci that I printed on my printer.  I second generation stamped a TH stamp over it with sepia archival ink and cut it with one of the Mini Labels M&S dies.  It was given a plain coat of UTEE for slickness and dimension and then edged with Silver paint dabber.  The dots in the corner are pearl dimensional paint that I squeezed out into drops on a sheet of acetate and when dry, I painted them with silver acrylic paint.  Then I smashed them a bit to look like hammered rivets but they didn't stay smashed very well :)

Be sure to stop by the Frilly and Funkie blog to see the awesome Renaissance inspired creations that our designers have to share.  And thanks so much for coming back to see what I had to share today.  Hope your week is going great!










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