Thursday, 19 March 2020

Love this


Hi everyone.
Today I am sharing a canvas which I created using inspiration from the 13 Arts mood board challenge for March, being inspired by the colour palette or the individual elements.



I loved the colours of this palette, including the old stone look so wanted to create a project with the look of an old stone wall.

To prepare the canvas, I stenciled onto the background, and then painted it with an olive green paint and then with dark brown chalk mist, spraying with water to allow the colour to run down the stenciling and drying between each colour.


Once everything was dry, I lightly painted some white gesso across the stenciling.


I made some of my own rust paint by mixing Cinnamon Latte and Matte Mahogany paint 
together and then adding craft sand to it to give it texture.
The chipboard clock was first painted with this rust paint and then some of 
the brown chalk mist.


When the paint was still a little wet, I added some puffy white embossing powder 
to the clock and heated it until the powder had melted.


I applied a layer of gel medium to the bottom of the pebbles and then 
coated it with grey grit.




The chipboard swirl was also heat embossed with a white puff embossing powder.


The chipboard title and the resin wings were coated with Mineral Pearl alcohol ink and then 
lightly brushed with a silver wax.



I hope that you like this canvas.
Why not take up the challenge and participate as well.
Until next time!
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Monday, 2 March 2020

Set your mind on things above


Hi everyone.
Today I am sharing a recent round canvas created as Brand Ambassador for Penelope Dee
using the beautiful, new Lily Bees collection.

I prepared the base of this canvas with the beautiful striped paper and then stenciled 
with "Black Ash" Nuvo Embellishment Mousse.
I then added diluted "Black Soot" Distress Oxide Spray, adding water 
so that the spray moved through the stenciling. 
I also added some diluted "Tarnished Brass" Distress paint here and 
there to add some colour.


The heart was painted with black gesso and then stenciled 
with "Indian Gold" Nuvo Embellishment Mousse.


The resin embellishments were painted with brown acrylic paint 
and then rubbed with gold wax.



The dome pebbles were painted underneath with the brass paint 
before securing to the page.


Some splashes of colour and the canvas was complete!

I hope that you enjoyed the project.
Until next time!
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