Undersea Canvas

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

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.

Dragonfly dufex card

I am so loving these multi use dufex card blanks atm!!! Here is a dragonfly card that I made using one. I cut an oval to fit the oval already on the card, and using aquatone pencils drew some bulrushes, and birds. I added some clouds with white liquid applique. The dragonflies were made using my stamps, illusion film and crystal laquer. The wings were then made using fantasy film, and attached.

More ATCs

Well now I've been playing with crystal lacquers now. These crystal lacquer butterflies are mounted onto some of that lovely plastic that is transparent and yet holographic and looks like silk. I have also painted "the flowers" again and gone around the edges with a gold acrylic dabber.


This last green one had gold peel offs placed around the edges, which were also filled in with crystal lacquers, and embellished with flat backed jewels. Bindis were added to the butterfly bodies as a finishing touch.