Easter Bunny Blog Hop

Hi Everyone

Who’s ready for the Easter Bunny?  Me....yay!

I have created an Easter themed canvas with lots of pretty flowers and of course a Bunny!

 

I’ve used a beautiful mandala stencil on the background using transparent relief paste.  I love texture. I then painted over it with a soft blue paint and added some pops of bright green to it.  Once it was dry I added some white dry brushing with gesso to soften the colours down.

Next I added my birdcage stencil using some chartreuse paint and added black and white details then I just added lots of floral embellishments leaving room for the Easter Bunny of course!..lol  To add lots of texture I added lots of Artsy Stones to fill gaps and build up along the edges of the embellished area.

For a full tutorial on this project  check out my facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/craftylass

The Team have made some gorgeous projects for you so please hop along with us:

It's Oddly Appealing

Paper Mache Patch

Psychotic ramblings of a Serial Scrapper  

Kelly Parker Designs:

Georgia Girl In Maine, Amylove

Matter of Crafts

Priya Satish:

LeeAnn McKinney Mimis Crafty Abyss

Life in a Snapshot

Juli Loves Paper

Scrap Savvy Creations

Whimsy Chic Paper Crafts

CMP Designs

Have a wonderful Easter :) xx

Valentine's Day Blog Hop

Hi Everyone

I am so excited to have been asked to join in the Valentine Blog Hop as I have never done one before so it's a real first for me :)  It gives me a chance to play with my Imagination Crafts goodies (not that I need an excuse...lol).

So I decided to create this gorgeous little heart canvas for you.

I used a white primed heart canvas. Firstly, I painted the surface with Imagination Crafts Rusty Patina in Duck Egg, spritzed with water and then added small areas of Rusty Patina in Soot.  I added more water to make the paints move together.  Allowed to dry.

Next I added some stencilling using Imagination Crafts Structure Paste through a Mandala stencil design.  Dry.  Using Starlight Paints in Orange, Banana Yellow and Rusty Patina in Rustique, I added some colour over the dried pasted design. Once dried I added detail script with a stencil.

I took some MDF Cogs from my crafty stash and added the Rusty Patina in Rustique over the entire surface of each.  I then applied more Rusty Patina to build the texture.  Once dry I added some highlight areas using the Starlight Paints in Orange and Banana Yellow and glued the pieces in position.

Finally, I added Structure Paste through a stencil to add detail to the MDF Bird.  Allowed to dry and then I painted the bird with Rusty Patina in Duck Egg and added gold highlights with Imagination Crafts Alchemy Wax in Inca Gold.  To finish the edges I added a little Rusty Patina in Soot.

I hope you like my project and enjoy the other designers creations.  Take a journey through the blog hop :) 

PolymerCreations4U: A Journey into Craftiness 

It's Oddly Appealing

Matter of Crafts

Kelly Parker Designs

Psychotic Ramblings of a Serial Scrapper 

The Joyful Soul Creates 

Paper Mache Patch

Scrappy Squirrel’s Nest

A Fine How Do You Do 

Whimsy Chic Paper Crafts Etc 

Inky Pinky Boo 

ekgorman designs 

Life in a Snapshot  

Juli Loves Paper  

Savvy Handmade Cards

What I Used

Imagination Crafts Rusty Patinas - Duck Egg, Rustique and Soot

Imagination Crafts Structure Paste 

Imagination Crafts Starlight Paints - Orange, Banana Yellow

Imagination Crafts Alchemy Wax - Inca Gold

Imagination Crafts Stencils - selection

Thanks 

for

Popping By

xx

Butterfly Tag Canvas with Imagination Crafts

Hi Everyone

We have a lovely day here in South Wales.  I hope you are enjoying the same.

Today's project has been created using Imagination Crafts fabulous Rusty Patina paints to give both texture and colour.  I hope you like it.  So let's get started!

 What I Did

• First step is to get a small canvas, a chipboard tag and some cardboard.  You could you use the cardboard to cut the tag from also

• Take the tag together with the  Wood Grain stencil and smooth the structure paste through the design.  Dry.  Clean stencil.

• Using the Weathered Wash stencil add design to the canvas background edges.  Dry.  Clean stencil.

• Tear some random strips from the cardboard exposing the ridges and glue to canvas.  Also glue a larger piece of cardboard to the rear of the tag to add depth.  Glue tag in to position.  Dry.

• For the next stage I added some glue drips to the tag and canvas and covered them with Artsy Stones.  I also glued on some flat backed glass stones.  Dry.

• Use the Rusty Patinas in Café Crème and Verdigris and mix tog3ethr to form a mid shade of pale green.  Paint over the entire piece.  Dry.

• Now use the Verdigris and dry brush over some areas to begin building the layers of colour.

• Next add the Rustique colour to your chosen areas.

• It's time to start adding the highlights with the Café Crème colour using a foam sponge/cut an use foam.  Dry.

• Using a sponge or a brush add some Starlight Wax in White Gold to add top highlights an to finish around the canvas edges.

• The final step is to use the rice paper butterflies.  Cut out roughly and glue to some white card.  Cut out and add to the centre tag to finish.

• Voila.  C'est fini! 

What I Used


Imagination Crafts Stencils - Weathered Wash and Wood Grain
Imagination Crafts Structure Paste
Imagination Crafts Rusty Patinas - Rustique, Verdigris and Café Crème
Imagination Crafts Starlight Wax - White gold
Imagination Crafts Artsy Stones - Small
Imagination Crafts Rice Paper and Fabric Decoupage glue
Imagination Crafts Magibond Glue




I hope you like this project and have been inspired.




Thanks
for
Popping By


MJ
xx

Inspire Butterfly Canvas

Hi Everyone

Glorious sunshine here today I hope it stays that way too :)

Today I have an 'Inspire' canvas project.  I have used my Imagination Crafts goodies together with some of my crafty stash.  Basically, I got loads of bits and bobs out from my craft room and began playing!  Once again I must apologise for the poor quality phots. So let's get going :)

What I Did

• Firstly, grab some bits and bobs from your crafty stash and decide what you are going to use to begin with.  I changed my mind as I went along as you can see. :)

• I started by sticking a mix of cheesecloth, fabric, bead trim and lace strips down the centre of the canvas. Build up layers.  Then I added other embellishments including cut up CD's, wooden skewers, metal shapes, crystals, straws and wooden butterflies.  

• Next take some crackle paste, and add it to some areas.  I lightly pasted onto canvas surrounding the composition, on the butterflies and straws.  I also pasted the crackle paste through a couple of stencils to add texture to background.  Leave to dry.

• Once paste is dry, gesso over the entire canvas.  Dry.  Now add the first colour of Mix Media Ink spray in light blue, adding water to blend out.

• Continue with the next colour.  I used a mix of light green and blue sprays using the white to soften out.  Dry.

• Next I added some Alchemy Wax in Bronze to pick up the texture details.

• I finished the project off with an MDF word coloured with alchemy wax.

What I Used

Imagination Crafts Magibond Glue

Imagination Crafts Crackle Paste

Imagination Crafts Stencils - A4 Script and Harlequin

Imagination Crafts Mix Media Ink Sprays - Lt Blue, Blue, Lt Green and White

Cadence Mix Media Artsy Stones

Imagination Crafts Alchemy Wax - Bronze

Embellishments from my Crafty Stash

I hope you have been inspired.

Thanks

for

Popping By

MJ

xx