English Country Garden Canvas for The Mirror Crack'd Challenge Blog.

A big welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.

Hi Blogging friends   Angela  here  to  welcome you to the Crafty Card Makers new Blog called The Mirror Crack'd Challenge Blog. 

My first offering for this new challenge blog is:
an English Country Garden Canvas. 

It's a rather photo heavy post so you may wish to get a cuppa before you start Lol!

 

 I began with the blank canvas and turned it over to use the back to make a shadow box effect.

 

Then applied the moulding paste.

 

I stamped into the paste with the crackle stamp

 

which was then sprayed to give colour

 

and left to dry.

 

Next I made the leaves, stamping onto black card, coloured them using gel pens and attached them into a pleasing arrangement.

 

I made the base to look like water using fusible fibres and then embossing this using the swirl stamp.

 

I added extra sparkle with stickles glue.

 

Onto the dragonflies using a PaperArtsy die and grunge board.

I coloured these with the big and juicy Hydrangea ink and melted UTEE onto them which I stamped into.

 

Then I constructed the flowers using a Tim Holtz die with grunge board which had been coloured and stamped.

 

The finished flowers looked like this.

I added small beads to the centre of each flower.

 

 

I decided I wanted to break up the texture on the border so I shaped some copper coloured metal sheet and stamped onto this with a textured stamp then using an embossing tool, shaped it. I applied glue to the back to ensure it would not flatten when attached.

I covered this with acrylic paint to age it then rubbed some of it away so the metal showed through.

 

I attached the metal to areas on the edge of the canvas,

to which I also added some Tim Holtz crackle paint.

Further spraying was done until the colour was deep enough and everything blended back together.

 

I made some paper beads,

 

bubble embellishments

 

and shrink plastic fish.

 

 

 All of which were added to complete the canvas.
Here are the materials used to complete the tag and attach the fish.

 I have tried to give you as many instructions as possible hopefully without boring you too much but there were many techniques used to make this project so if there is anything you don't understand or you would like more details please leave me a comment and I will try to answer you questions.

Hope you have enjoyed this tutorial and if you have not come by way of the new blog I hope you will pop over to The Mirror Crack'd to see what my team members have to offer you in this first challenge.
I also decided to enter this project for the following challenges:
Anything goes - Altered Eclectics
Anything but a Card - Dragons Lair Design
All the pretty Flowers - Craft Hoarders Anonymous

                     

                      Happy crafting,

                          Angela x

Masterboard Monday.

A big welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.

Hi Blogging Buddies  hope you have had a nice weekend.
This week's Masterboard is technique based.
I happened to be looking through some of my stash and found some dies by Paper Artsy that I haven't used for a while so thought I would have a play.
Not knowing quite where this would take me, I started by die-cutting some of the shapes.
Which I attached to a piece of card. See below.

 

I ended up with a piece of A4 card with lots of holes.

Now that has got to be useful LOL!

 

I wanted to experiment so also cut some slightly thicker pieces with corrugated card. As you can see anything can be used, this is old packaging.

 

I tried these out for embossing but it might be easier to see if I colour them.

 

Embossed side.

 

Debossed side.

 

Also had a go at using the negative sheet as a stencil with ink sprays.

 

And finally, I applied embossing paste through the negative sheet and allowed it to dry, then sprayed it with mica sprays.

 

Cleaned up the ink with card and liked it so much that I added a little more.

 

So it took me quite a way, ending not only with a Masterboard but a stencil, some nice coloured card and an embossing folder.

Good Ha!

 

All I have to do now is decide what to make with the Masterboard.

I love it and I hope you will do too.

 

Happy crafting,

Angela x