Gingersnap Creations Challenge - Shared Moments

For this canvas I used Crafty Individuals' stamp CI 070 Mother and Child, Background CI 256 and Flourish CI200. I used some glass bead gel but it isn't very apparent unless you get in close, but it adds a bit of texture. I have also used pieces of flower sequin trim to bring out the peach and turquoise colours. The theme for today's Gingersnap Challenge launch is Shared Moments, and the mother and child image said that to me.

Bird and Stampbord Canvas - Minus Chickens!

Today I've made a canvas using Crafty Individuals' bird stamps. The canvas started life covered in chickens, and I bought three of them for 50p at a car boot sale. The chckens came off quite easily and may be used on another project, but they left a gluey splodge unfortunately.

My photos are terrible as I really struggled with the canvas being so wide so I have taken several, and I'm sure you get the general idea! I've used a background stamp (which I kept whole, not sure if you are meant to but I like it) CI256, and the birds CI182 and 183, and the flourish, CI200.

The flower to the left of the stampbord took longer to make than the whole canvas!
The tile is covered with Crackle Accents

Just wanted to show the sides with the background stamp

Gingersnap Challenge - Far East - Geisha Canvas

This month's Gingersnap Creations challenges are all featuring the Far East, and this week it is the turn of Geishas. I must confess, I made this little canvas a long time ago but it seemed to fit the bill, and as it has never seen the light of day, I thought I would give it an outing. It was made with the Geisha stamps from the Stamp Attack, designed by Jo from JoZart. It has a little bit of everything on it.

Here's a side view showing the writing, and depth of the canvas.

Haute Couture Canvas - Gingersnaps Challenge

I made this little canvas for the Gingersnap Creations Blogspot challenge for this week, which is Haute Couture. I thought this new Crafty Individuals stamp, depicting two elegantly dressed ladies with a vintage Millinery advertisement fitted the bill. I added their scroll stamp and some little flowers to the corners, and some Deko Ice from the Altered Element, which I coloured orange to match the rest of the project. I used a vintage rose coloured braid around the edge, letting it sit slightly above the edge so it framed the image from the front.

A Seaside Canvas

 I made this back to front canvas using a gorgeous plate called
Seaside No 1 Plate by the Artistic Stamper. It features a range of shells, the Ship's Wheel with the two little children in the centre, the fish, the parasol, and this lovely Marilyn Monroe style bathing beauty having a paddle. I used Crackle Paint around the edge, and then Distress Inks and shimmer spray. The shells around the edge were made of clay with a little Stickles over the top, and the mould was lent to me by my friend Von when she was here to play - she buys her moulds from her local greengrocer! The little beach hut is actually one of the very reasonably priced wooden bird houses sold by the Artistic Stamper, and I just pulled out the perch and the hanging loop and decorated it with blue and white striped paper and shells. There will be lots more using this plate of stamps as it is so versatile, and captured the wonderful feeling of this hot summer we are having.

'Why is a Raven Like a Writing Desk'? and other Nonsense from the Hatter!

This is my favourite stamp from the Artistic Stamper Mabel Lucie Attwell Alice in Wonderland Stamps - the Hatter and the March Hare putting the sleeping Dormouse into the hot tea!

My lovely students asked if I would show them how to make canvases yesterday - I had to demo, of course, which is Lucy-speak for 'I fancied making one myself!'. I coloured the canvas with vibrant StazOn colours first, then stamped the Tea Party onto a piece of tissue which I had cut to fit. I added a touch of colour to the images with Inktense pencils. I tore around the piece of book text relating to putting the dormouse in the tea, then tore it on the diagonal so the piece top left and the piece bottom right are continuations of the same piece of the story as I liked this bit! I added a touch of the same StazOn colours to the book text to blend it all in. After I had adhered the whole lot, I added this gorgeous gold tea pot charm which my kind student, Jude, gave me - isn't it perfect? Then I re-stamped just the tea-pot part of the stamp onto blue willow pattern paper, cut it out, edged it in black, and added it over the top of the tea-pot with 3d foam pads and added Glossy Accents, to give a sort of porcelain look. Actually, I don't know if anyone knows the answer to this but I couldn't find anything showing what the tea pot design was meant to be in the original drawings, e.g. stripes or flowers?

Then I tore out a piece I liked from the book about tea-trays in the sky - difficult to choose between this and the bit about 'it's always tea-time', which it is in my house! I didn't colour this as I felt it looked more 'highlighted' compared to the other text if I left it plain. I also gave the characters their names in book text.

Finally I added some white opaque pen to things like the Hatter's 'Harry Hill' collar.

I am a little worried that it is the madness of the 'Alice' story which makes me keep returning to this theme .....

Ethereal Lady Canvas

I am very late to the Grungepaper flowers party, which seem to be so popular at the moment with some excellent tutorials on-line. This canvas was made as a shameless vehicle for my first grungepaper rose, and I followed the tutorial on Hels blog. I used stamps from the Artistic Stamper - the words, the background stamp from the Collage Woman (Byron poem, 'She walks in beauty like the night'), the scroll, and this wonderful new Clock Lady stamp which Alison kindly lent me when she was here the other day. The lower half of the lady is floral, so I used Flowersoft. I used the scroll again around the sides of the canvas to finish it off.

Three Wise Men Canvas

Alison came over for a play day yesterday, and as always, we had a great time. Alison was making some stunning metal work pieces, and some Christmas cards, and I was managing to dabble and not finish anything. The only thing I did finish was this little canvas using a set of Elusive Images stamps kindly lent to me by Alison.

Canvas Using Image Transfer of Background Papers

I was playing around with different image transfer techniques and my friend, Hazel, said that you could transfer backing papers onto canvas. I love the Spring papers by Crafty Individuals, so I have used these, and a selection of their stamps. I left the sides fairly plain because I liked the pretty paper showing through.