Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Mixed Media & Happy Crafting...




I took some of these 4x4 canvases away on our crafty retreat and thought I'd have a go at mixed media.

We were lucky enough to have a play with some of Joy's the new Penny Black masks and stamps - and yes, they are as fabulous as you hope they might be! The butterfly canvas is created by applying Gelatos over the primed canvas (they can be primed using Gesso, but these canvases came pre-primed) and blending the Gelato colours with a baby wipe. Using the Penny Black Charming stencil, I gently removed the colour from the stencilled flower and leaf sections, before applying Festive Berries and Mowed Lawn Distress Inks to the flowers and leaves.  When adding a layer of clear embossing paste to the flowers, I discovered that the Distress Inks react to the embossing paste, so I had to be very careful when applying the paste - next time I would use LuminArte or Gelatos, which don't have the same reaction. The sentiment ant butterfly undercolour were created using LuminArte. The Dyan Reaveley sentiment was stamped in Versamark Watermark and Zing White embossing powder, then fussy cut and adhered to the canvas using multimedia paste. The underlayer of the butterfly was adhered to the silver butterfly, and bling added, before adhering with Dimensional Magic.

The little bird canvas is created using one of Jenny's bird stamps, first stamped on watercolour paper with Versamark Watermark just to get an outline of the shape of the bird, then painted in LuminArte and dried before overstamping in Versamark Watermark and Zing Pewter embossing powder. The Dyan Reaveley sentiment was created using the same technique. The background was created using Gelatos, then a second layer of Gelatos mixed with texture paste to create a more textured finish.

Playing along with Virginia's View Stencil Challenge

Retreat photos... all the fabulous ladies who attended:  




Please go and check out their blogs - they're all completely fabulous!!

This made me smile...

11 comments:

  1. Thanks so much for sharing your blank canvases - I had great fun decorating mine!

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  2. WHat a fantastic n talented group of ladies..to spent time with ! I loved both the mini canvas !

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  3. What GREAT keepsakes that you gave the Aussie girls the canvas! These two are awesome, Lyndal! I love the bright contrast of the PB stencil and design! Beautifully done! Thanks for playing Virginia's View Challenge! Your group photos make me smile!

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  4. These mini canvases are so adorable, love the effect u created and I am so glad to see all the amazing crafters together!! how fun.

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  5. wow I love love love these.. so totally FABULOUS..

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  6. These are both beautiful and so unique and fun. LOVE.

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  7. I really adore your bright and beautiful canvases, they are fabulous! Thank you for sharing and for joining us over at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge blog... :)

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  8. Very creative! That blue bird really looks great with the green background. Both are fab! And thanks for joining us this week for the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. :) I was so happy to see that you played along this week.

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  9. Love both canvases! Thanks for guiding me with mine! I had fun doing it!

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  10. Saw this at The Catered Crop and fell in love! Fabulous!

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  11. Saw this at The Catered Crop and fell in love! Fabulous!

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