Sunday, April 24, 2011

A canvas...

Here's my latest make for the Make The Day Special blog this week:

Having recently seen the gorgeous work of Christy Tomlinson I felt inspired to have a go at a canvas using some of Christy's techniques but in my style. I usually like all my craft to look "clean" so this was a bit of a challenge but one that I enjoyed and I'm quite pleased with the result.

I used a 6" x 4" board canvas which I stuck patterned paper on to and then used gesso to cover it. I then stamped the sentiment from Unity's Quote Bundle Pack using black Versafine ink. I also used the grid stamp from the Unity store kit - Moments In Bloom to stamp randomly over the canvas.

I added rub-ons, handmade bunting and some puffy stickers and then used a black fineliner pen to highlight elements.

Materials used: Canvas, My Mind's Eye papers, Unity stamps (as above), black Versafine ink, black Letraset pen, green Versamagic chalk ink, Heidi Grace rub-ons, American Crafts rub-ons, Creative Imaginations rub-ons, Making Memories puffy stickers
Also used: twine, gesso


5 comments:

Clair said...

This is just lovely Jo!

Sue Jones said...

Thats so pretty

Lyzzydee said...

Lovely work!

Rita Barakat said...

Adorable work! Good for you!

Anonymous said...

Beautiful canvas Jo. Love S xx