Unicorn canvas

Another canvas, this time using my new Unicorn stamp. The background is painted with Adirondack acrylic dabbers. The unicorn itself is stamped on textured "old" gold paper. The swirl is stamped with olive green stazon, a couple of times, and then embossed in gold. The words were written on freehand...........(I know, you can tell!!!)

Autumn canvas

I have made this 5" x 5" canvas by covering it with a piece of decorative paper, and neatening the edges with a piece of self adhesive DCWV gros grain ribbon. I have printed out one of my paintings and sandwiched it in between two slide mounts, and put them into a frame. I have attached this to the canvas using a piece of ribbon, and drawn some trees with a sharpie marker.

Undersea Canvas

Another canvas, more stampbord, and more of my stamp designs, this time coloured in with crystal laquers.

Horse herd canvas

Yet another canvas, again using stampbord that I have doodled some horses on, and then I painted the trees onto the canvas and mounted the stampbord pieces onto it.

Red cat canvas

Another canvas today, bit different to my usual style, but have used some more of my stamps, and the stampbord again

And yet another.....................

Another canvas................ this time using my sunflower stamp, on the stampbord. I used gold peel offs to decorate and wrote the quotation by hand to finish off.

And another.................

...............Stampbord canvas, using one of my stamps............very simple one this.......just doodled some trees on with a sharpie marker and white gel pen.

Stampbord Rose canvas

Today I have made a canvas, using my own design stamp, and a stampbord oval. I decorated the stampbord with ink, and stamped the rose with black Stazon, and used an edtching tool to add details. I edged the oval with black acrylic dabber, I then triple embossed it using clear UTEE. The canvas was coloured with inks and I then attached a piece of pearl embossed paper, and a piece of purple and silver material, and a quote. The stampbord oval was attached and the whole canvas was decorated with bindis.

Christmas Canvas

A friend gave me these cute little canvasses, so I thought I'd have a play yesterday, and then once they were done, I had to think what to do with them so I mounted them onto a larger canvas.......the large one is only 6" x 8", so as you can see the small ones are tiny! I have used Christmas wrapping paper to cover the large canvas, and used my stamps for the designs on the canvasses.

Skinny canvas

A dear friend sent me some skinny canvasses, the other day, so I thought I'd make a skinny using one of my new stamps. I coloured the canvas using chalk ink pads, decorated it with some border and corner stickers and added the carnation which had been stamped in sepia and coloured using aquatones. I embossed the head of the flower with clear embossing powder, and finished the skinny off with a cardboard letter C, which was embossed with gold powder

Twinchie canvas

So, having made my very first twinchie, the dilemma arose, as to what to do with it! I consulted a friend, who helpfully told me that hers was "on the windowsill"! Being obviously far more creative than her..........(yeah right!) I decided to make mine into a canvas. I therefore did a bit of matting and layering, and attached it to a canvas that I had covered with a beautiful piece of daisy paper. I used a distress ink pad to distress the edges of the canvas to match, added gold peel off corners, and wrote the word Summer in Write 'n' rub pen, which I then gilded.

Slide mount canvas

Yes, another canvas! I'm still playing with the slide mounts, and thought they would be effective used thus on a canvas, with prints of some of my paintings in them. I coloured the background of the canvas with distress inks, and painted the trees with acrylic paint to finish it off.

Another canvas

Well I've been busy doing another canvas.................haven't mastered the art of stamping onto them yet, so had to employ a bit of lateral thinking, as I made the bulrushes stamp especially for this project! I hope you like it.

Dragonfly canvas

I'm still enjoying making canvasses, this one had the background coloured with aquatone sticks, and then I added the bulrush stems and leaves with marabou fineliners, which were "puffed up" with a heat gun, as were the clouds, for which I used liquid applique. I then added shadow on clouds and stems with brush pens.the edges of the canvas were distressed with ink pads. I stamped the dragonflies, using my own design stamps, on glitter and illusion card, from which I cut the bodies. The wings are made from fantasy film. These were attached with foam pads and dst, and the bodies were then coated with crystal laquers. The birds were added with brush pens, and the small dragonflies were stamped on the sides of the canvas.

At last!

This is the first canvas I ever made, and yes I know it is p**k, but it was for a friends birthday who likes the colour! (I believe therapy is available for this unfortnate condition!) Anyway, it is now her Birthday...........Happy Birthday Feefs.................. so I can now at last put it on my blog :) It's made in a similar way to the subsequent canvasses, so I won't bore you with the details again here :)

Another canvas

Here is another canvas that I made for a very good friend of mine, made in a very similar way to my canvas, only this time I used my butterfly stamps, and fusible fibres/fantasy film, glitter and acetate to make the butterflies.

Playing!

Well have been very self indulgent recently, and despite the long "to do" list, stuck on my wall...............I've been making something for me!! It occurred to me that I don't actually have anything with my flowers on, so I have made myself a canvas! I covered the canvas with some scrummy Creative Impressions paper and distressed the edges with black distress ink. The words from the sheet off paper..."Be true to yourself" I tore out and attached to the bottom corner of the canvas. I used some left over paper to cut out some flowers, the edges of which were again distressed, before the flowers were covered completely in Glossy Accents.I attached these to the canvas, and added gems using stickles paint. more flowers were painted on, gems added and leaves painted. The canvas was then finished off with butterfly stickers. The colour has not come out very well in the photo, as it is actually darker and more gothicy than it appears! :)