Viva Las Vegastamps - August Monthly Challenge

There's a challenge on the Viva Las Vegastamps blog to make a project using August's Inspiration board:

I've made a canvas using the lighthouse stamp from Plate 923 and taking inspiration form the colours - just love the black with the aqua and pink. The paint splodges in the top made me think of water.

The canvas is about 7" x 5". I coloured it with Derwent Artbars which I then blended with water. I stamped the lighthouse using black Memento ink and then added gesso through a stencil to add texture to the sea and also used my fingers to add some.

I found a quote online which I printed out and then coloured with distress inks before cutting out each word and then inking around each of them. 

I then added trim, ric-rac and a few rub-ons along with a couple of watch parts that I painted.

Hope you like it!! 

Unity Love Life canvas

Well, after missing posting last week due to a case of nothing going right with my make I'm back this week with a canvas for my Make the Day Special blog post this week.

This started off as a 6" x 4" canvas board from The Works (great value at 99p for a pack of 5). 

I coloured the background with Derwent Artbars which I then blended using a baby wipe.

The Love Life stamp from Unity's Love Life set and the butterfly stamp from Unity's Life Becoming set were stamped on to patterned paper then cut out. 

I used K and Co printed die-cuts, metal embellishments , Prima lace, a beaded string from a Christmas decoration and more to embellish.

Materials used: canvas, Derwent Artbars, Unity stamps (as above), Pink Paislee London Market paper, brown Memento ink, K&Co die-cuts, Prima lace and flowers, lace embellishment, metal charms, Vintaj Patina paint, vintage glass button, beaded string from Christmas decoration.

Mini quote canvas

Here's the canvas I made for the Make The Day Special shop blog for my post today.

I used a prepared 10cm square canvas which I coloured with Ranger Distress Stains and then stamped a Unity quote stamp with Distress ink. I highlighted the text with a fine pen and then added rub-ons, Prima flowers and centres and a beaded embellishment. The trim was originally white so I used the distress stains to colour that too.

Materials used: canvas, Ranger Distress Stains, Unity stamp (from Quote Bundle Pack), Ranger Distress Ink, black Sakura pen, My Mind's Eye rub-ons, Prima flowers and centres, Kaisercraft rhinestone, Crafty Notions Rainbow Drops, upholstery trim, beaded trim.

A larger canvas........

I've been playing and made a canvas using a pic of the kids taken a couple of months ago. This is bigger than previous canvasses I've worked on...it's about 7" x 10".

I started by covering the canvas with pieces of Provocraft paper and also some illustrations from an old Enid Blyton book  - these were of 2 brothers and their younger sister!! I then completely covered the canvas with gesso before using sequin waste and distress ink to add some details. After adding the photo I used various rub-ons and embellishments to complete it:

Materials used: Provocraft papers, old book pages, Claudine Hellmuth gesso, Ranger distress inks, Kaisercraft rub-ons, Fancy Pants rub-ons, Creative Imaginations rub-on, 7Gypsies rub-on, Maya Rd sheer ribbon, Heidi Grace plastic flower and heart, Heidi swapp plastic flower, Doodlebug buttons and brad, K & Co fabric brad, MME button.

Also used: cotton lace

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

Butterfly canvas

had so much fun making the quote canvas yesterday that I decided to make another one in a different colour scheme with a butterfly.

Again, I coloured the canvas with the distress inks and then stamped the butterfly using black Memento ink. I then coloured the butterfly using Promarkers and added some Stickles. I then stamped the quote and the 2 smaller butterflies and added rhinestones.

Materials used: canvas board, Ranger distress inks, Butterfly stamps (Elusive Images), quote stamp by Unity stamps from the Quote Bundle Pack, black Memento ink, Promarkers, Stickles.

Also used: rhinestones and adhesive pearls.

A quote canvas

Here's my post for the Make The Day special blog today.

Today I've been playing with Unity stamps and distress inks and a canvas board that I bought a while ago.

I used various inks in pink and purple hues to colour the background of the canvas applied with the Ranger tool. I then stamped using the Insightful Meadows set using green distress inks. The quote from the Quote Bundle Pack was stamped using brown Memento ink. I used tiny dots of Stickles in the flower centres.

The last addition was a few rhinestones..

Materials used: canvas board, Unity stamps (as above), Ranger distress inks, brown Memento ink, Stickles, The Hobby House rhinestones.

A canvas

I love crackled effect on items but have had dubious success with Ranger Distress Crackle Paint and C rackle Accents so when I saw this post by Effie I just had to try out some Viva Croco crackle. I'd seen it in the shops months ago but hadn't bought any but this convinced me! It is absolutely fabulous stuff!! I bought a pack of six canvases each 10cm square and here is my first completed one. The tassels were all handmade by me and were so quick and easy to do using a flower loom. Materials used: Viva Croco crackle paint, Crafty Individuals image, hand-dyed lace from Ebay, vintage lace, tassels made from crochet perle cotton. Roses, leaf and pins from stash.