Take your time

Hi everyone.

I am sharing a steampunk canvas which I recently created.

I am actually calling this my "25 days of lockdown" canvas as it has been over three weeks since we were instructed to stay at home, only venturing out for essentials.

These are indeed very strange, sometimes stressful, times that we are living in 

and who would have thought that we would see something like this in our generation, 

especially seeing how far medicine has come since our grandparents 

endured something similar to this.  Hopefully it won't be long until this is all over 

and life can get back to "normal".  One thing that I am so very thankful for 

is modern technology and that we can keep in touch with family and friends 

on a daily basis, no matter where they are in the world.

I prepared this canvas by first stenciling onto it and then, once dry, 

covering everything with white gesso.

I then adhered all of my elements (cogs, gears, clock faces, wings, stones, etc) onto the canvas, 

using a very strong glue, and then, once dry and solid on the canvas, 

painted everything with white gesso.

Once the gesso was dry, I add some acrylic paints in browns and black, 

spraying with water to allow the colour to move on the canvas.

Once I was happy with the paint effect, I painted the tops of the embellishments 

with matte and metallic waxes to bring out the details.

I hope that you like this canvas.

Stay strong until next time!

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You're my sunshine

Hi everyone.

This is a layout I created using inspiration from the 13 Arts mood board challenge 

for April, being inspired by a walk in nature.

http://13artspl.blogspot.com/2020/04/april-challenge-wyzwanie-kwietniowe-89.html

I love nature and, at one stage of my life, spent many hours and day hiking in the mountains

 and enjoying the gifts that God has given us.

I used a lot of browns and greens for this nature layout.  

I first stamped onto the background using an embossing ink pad and then 

embossed the stamped images with white embossing powder.

I used flowers, leaves, twigs and moss to create the nature look.

I stenciled onto the layout using a 13Arts glitter ink.

The title was painted with 13Arts Colour Glow paint powder.

Once I had adhered everything to my layout, I painted some 

13Arts Colour Glow metallic and watercolour paint powder around the composition 

to create depth and to accentuate certain elements.

I hope that you like this layout.

Why not let this moodboard inspire you too.

Until next time!

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Do everything in love

Hi everyone.

I am sharing a mixed media heart canvas with you all using the beautiful new Blue Belle

papers from Penelope Dee.

I prepared the canvas with white gesso and then traced half of the heart onto patterned paper, 

securing this paper to the one side of the heart.

Stenciling was then done onto the centre are of the heart before adding

"Faded Jeans" Distress Oxide onto the left side of the heart, spraying it with water 

and allowing it to move through the stenciling.

The chipboard leaves were heat embossed in blue before adding silver wax.

The word "Life| and the heart were heat embossed in silver.

Lots of cutouts from the paper collection and the heart was complete.

I hope that you liked this project.

Until next time!

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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.

http://13artspl.blogspot.com/2020/03/wyzwanie-challenge-88_1.html

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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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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Let's do this together

Hi everyone.

This is a single layout which I did for our National Scrapbooking Day 

as part of my teaching demo to show the use of Icing Pastes with moulds.

I loved the bicycle on this Prima Marketing "Georgia Blue" paper and had to use a pic of my 

dad and mom taken many years ago on their honeymoon in the Eastern Cape.

For this layout I used the "Mystic Turquoise" Icing Paste together with 

a Stamperia mould to make the doily and lace edge strip and I loved the result!

The bird, wing and bicycle were painted in a royal blue and then rubbed with gold wax.

Lots of layering with flowers and ephemera and the layout was complete.

I hope that you like this layout.

Until next time!

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Beautiful Bravery

Hi everyone.

Today I am sharing a double page layout which I recently created as Brand Ambassador 

for Penelope Dee using the beautiful new Renaissance collection.

For this layout, I used some of Finnabair's "White Gold" Icing Paste and, 

using a silicone spatula, ran it along a floral cake decorating mould, 

leaving it to dry completely before lifting it from the mould.  

The paste has an elasticity to it once it sets which gives it the appearance of lace.

The chipboard pieces were painted with Nuvo Stone Drops and left to dry.

This creates a hardened texture on the chipboard.

A combination of gold and red Icing Pastes were also added to the layout using a stencil.

I hope that you like this layout.

Until next time!

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Spring is the best moment to start over

Hi everyone.

This is a layout I created using inspiration from the 13 Arts mood board challenge for February.

It is all about new beginnings ... new love, new start, new home, new you.

We all start afresh with something, sometimes more than once, at some or other point in our lives.

We always look forward to new things in our lives, never looking back ... 

only learning from it and moving on.

http://13artspl.blogspot.com/2020/02/wyzwanie-challenge-87-new-beginnings.html

 Spring is always a season for new growth and I decided to create this on my layout 

based on a video which I saw on YouTube a while back of techniques to draw trees, 

branches, leaves.

The branches for this layout were created by placing droplets of ink onto a 

white sheet of cardstock and then blowing them with a straw in the direction 

that you would like them to go.

Excess ink is blown in an opposite directions to create thinner branches.

I did this with black and green ink and then splashed some diluted red paint and dark brown 

chalk mist around the branches to look like berries. 

Some stamping, flowers, berries, resin pieces as well as 13 Arts dirt and stars were added.

Finally I added a sticker title to the layout which I feel depicts what the mood board is all about.

Remember, new beginnings are a time to celebrate!

I hope that you like this layout.

Until next time!

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