I LOVE U Tree

Good morning :-) 

Hoping your day has been going good so far...

I am here to share a cute 6x6 flat panel canvas I altered, by creating an outdoor scenery with the main focus of the adorable I Love U Tree MDF wood laser cut. I love the images of the birds singing, tiny bird house hanging from the tree and the window cut out in the tree. I colored it using copics alcohol markers which works very well on the MDF wood. For my canvas background, I used gelatos to create the sky, copics for the grass and made the dimensional tree using a small brown paper bag :-) 

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Thanks for visiting me today :-) 

~Steff~ 

"Gorgeous" Canvas

Hi there bloggers :-)

 

 

I would like to share with you a 6x6 canvas that I altered for my GDT spot for ReneaBouquets and you can also find her on Etsy . Renea makes absolutely gorgeous "Handcrafted" Butterflies and they are amazing when you see them in person.

So I have created my canvas which was inspired by the gorgeous butterflies, which by the way are called "Patina butterflies".

 

 

For my background I used Prima stencil and homemade texture paste for the waves and the sentiment. Then sprayed with some Lindys Stamp Gang mist and ink the edges with Tim Holtz "Broken China" distress ink. Stamp Prima's Bloom girl with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and color her with water color pencils (thanks again my friend!) Added pearls and Sparkle N Sprinkle Teal Velveteen glitter to the flowers in her hair to finish her off.

 

She's looking at the butterflies and thinking "Gorgeous" :-) The butterflies trails are made with Martha Stewart mold and top off with Sparkle N Sprinkle Luau Green glitter.

 

I really enjoyed creating this canvas and the butterflies made creating effortless :-) Check out Renea's awesome store, she has so much more than butterflies.

 

~Steff~

Happiness is a Journey...

Hi everyone :-)

 

Today I am experiencing a couple "firsts"... blogging on the SNS blog and well the other you'll see below :-)

 

Sticking with the masculine theme for this week I used yet again Vintage Pickup #628 stamp set, I have altered a canvas and created a card.

 

"Happiness is a Journey..." canvas.

 

 

 

This is my other first "grunge", it's not something I do but honestly I was so inspired by the fun Copper Flame Mixed Media embossing powder! What can I say... I went with the flow :-0

 

 

Upclose look at that yummy embossing powder!

 

 

 

 

 

What I did:

 

1.   Canvas measures 8x8 and lightly gesso (wasn’t really necessary). Inked randomly with TH Distress inks using a sponge. Darker distress ink on the edges of canvas.

2.   Using Prima stencil as a guide for a frame look, dab clear embossing ink with sponge applicator around the stencil and pour Copper Flame embossing powder and heat embossed.

3.   Designer paper hand torn and distress with TH inks, use glossy accents to highlight words. Stamp and color Vintage Pickup with distress ink for a real rust vintage look.

4.   Stamp and heat embossed title from Vintage Pickup below. Alcohol ink embellishments and adhere. 

 

 

 

Now after all that grunge, I needed something clean and simple haha... So I am squeezing in one last Father's day card.

 

 

This card was quick and simple but the Embossed Resist Building a Scene technique made it unique.

 

Closer look at the technique.

 

 

What I did:

 

1.    Card base measure 6x5 and first layer is designer paper Portobello cut smaller than card base and edges ink with Stampin Up Baja Breeze. Cut out 2 large TH Gears and adhere top and bottom opposite corners.

2.   Second layer, white cardstock and cut DP (ink with Baja Breeze) with the word “Celebrate” 2/3 the size of layering for the white card stock. Stamp and color Vintage Pickup with Prismacolor pencils on DP, stamp gears in top right corner.

3.   On another white card stock measures 1/3 to complete the layering, use the gears stamp and Embossed Resist Building a Scene technique to create a unique background. Adhere to first layer using dimensional tape

4.   Cut a strip of DP to conceal the seams and stamp sentiment.

 

 

I hope you have enjoyed your time with me today and I hope you give these techniques a try :-)

 

 

~Steff~



 

Last Birthday Project...

Hi everyone :-)

 

Okay so this is the last of the Birthday projects I had made for my friends... again I have a card and also a canvas requested from my friend. She wanted soft pinks, black and white color combo, so I used the Prima Rondelle papers and chipboard pieces.

 

card

 

 

Canvas

 

 

Thanks so much for stopping by and hope to see you soon :-)

 

 

~Steff~

Cont'd Birthday projects...

Hello again my blogging friends :-)

 

So as promised from my last blogging about birthdays HERE , this is the canvas, an altered balsa box I made to go with the card I made for her.

 

 

Canvas

 

Altered Balsa box (long tube kind)

 

side view.

 She LOVE purple :-)

 

Thanks for stopping by and I'll see you soon!

 

~Steff~

Altered Canvas "Friends"

Hi there friends/bloggers :-) I would like to share with you my very first altered canvas... and may I add that it will not be my last... This was so much fun, you can just go on and on plying on stuff or not, it's up to you :-) The canvas measures 8x10inches, I decorated it with colors my friend and I love and I'm so hoping she loves it because I mostly create a kind of clean look, where as she love mostly grunge... ahhh I don't know how to do grunge (but it's on the list of things to learn lol).

 For the first layer I used 3 of my favorite satin ribbons pink, beige and chocolate brown (yum) then I added seam binding in between each ribbon to break them up. Ran them diagonal and cut to give a banner effect, layer a strip of designer paper from Colorbok. Embellished with frames, molds, pearls, baubles, chipboard pieces, flowers and stamp images from Prima stamp on transparency.

Thank you for your visit and I hope you like what I have created. Please leave a comment letting me know what you think :-) See you soon.

~Steff~