Be strong … when being strong is all you have. By Linda Pearson

 

 

Happy New Year everyone!!   On the blog today I have created an ‘off the page’ project using a framed canvas board from Eckersley’s Art store, but a standard canvas or journal book could be used as an alternative.

Bee Arty products used:

White Cardstock 350gsm250gsm A4 sheet

Gesso white to prepare the canvas

Darice 6 well paint palette

Versamark Stamp pad translucent

Embossing powder – Stormy Night

Shimmer dust – Navy, Midnight, Passion, Lollipop and Peacock

Eye spy stamp

Gridlock A6 stencil

Craft Powder Spoon

 

Other products and tools used:

Stamp Press

Eckersley’s – Jasart Floating Canvas Board

Heat Tool

Acrylic Paint; DW Ocean and A by M Mermaid

Small round paint brushes

Make up sponge or dauber/blending tool

Fussy cut scissors

‘Strong’ die cut  (own stash) use stamps or other word to suit

Teal Foil Card (own stash)

Pipette

Posca Pen or equivalent  (white)

Texture paste or moulding paste

Masking tape

 

    

Mask the floating frame with masking tape to protect from the shimmer paints etc.

 

 

Cover the canvas board with a coat of Gesso and dry off.  Then apply 2 coats of Ocean paint drying between each coat.

 

 

Add a small amount of Ocean paint to a palette with a small amount of Gesso or white paint.  Tap the makeup sponge(dauber) into the paint (do not mix the paint … you want to apply an ‘ombre’ style effect of colour through the stencil.  Using the Gridlock A6 stencil gently pounce the two colours through the stencil.  Shift the stencil around to cover the canvas board.  Don’t be concerned if the colour looks a little messy. Dry off a little. Do the previous step 2 to 3 times more adding a little more white colour to lighten for each layer.  Be sure to end in a ‘whiteish’ layer to finish off.  Dry off.

Spread the texture paste through the Gridlock A6 stencil over the surface.  Allow to dry completely.

 

 

 

In the meantime prepare quantities of the Shimmer dust (Navy, Midnight, Passion, Lollipop and Peacock) colours in the   Darice 6 well paint palette using a  Craft Powder Spoon  … add some water to each colour and mix thoroughly.   Test the colours to ensure they are rich in colour before adding to canvas.

 

 

Prepare the area with a piece of paper towel to absorb the run-off of shimmer colours.  Lightly spray the canvas area (image below) then using a small round brush drip the colours onto the canvas

 

 

I began with Lollipop then Passion and finally Navy Shimmer dust.  

Allow to dry then apply more if needed.

 

 

   

Finally apply some of the Midnight Shimmer dust .  Lay the canvas flat for this step to keep the colour towards the top of the canvas with only a few drips across the canvas allowing under layers to show through.

 

 

Once dry, water down some Mermaid paint (A by M) to add some splatters over the canvas.

 

 

   

Apply the Eye spy stamp to the stamp press with a sheet of White Cardstock 250gsm A4 sheet paper, cover the stamp with a generous layer of Versamark Stamp pad translucent.  Imprint the stamp onto the white card.

Sprinkle a generous amount of Stormy night Embossing powder over the stamp imprint.  Activate the powder using a heat tool. 

Using a small paint brush apply the Shimmer dust around the outside area of the stamp being careful not to colour the eye area.  Again, I added the lollipop, passion then navy in turn to cover the stamped area.  Dry off, then add more colour if necessary.  Dry off.

Pupil area apply some peacock Shimmer dust to the iris carefully.  Dry off.

 

 

Carefully fussy cut the stamped image from the card keeping as much of the lined detail as possible.

Adhere the stamped image to the top area of the canvas board.  Before doing this the image was raised by adding two pieces of cardboard to the back of image then adhered to the board.

 

Word … using the foil card run a word diecut (strong) through the machine then adhere the word to the bottom area of the canvas board.  Remove the masking tape and the project is complete.

 

 

 

 

I hope you are encouraged to create your canvas representation of this project.  Change the stamp and word sentiment to suit your own circumstances.

Thank you for stopping by and I look forward to creating for you again soon.

 

Cheers from Linda Pearson

linda@yourcreativepalette.com.au

 

Whispering Woods Sneak Peek II - With Karyn Schultz!

   Hi Bee Arty Lovelies!

It's Karyn here and today I have a Sneak Peek of another of my creations that features in the new Bee Arty Whispering Woods kit. The sneaks are from a scrapbook page titled "Finding Your Way".

 

 

Whispering Woods has whimsical/rustic designs & colour palate with versatile elements, and is designed by the talented Sue Smyth. You will love this collection - the stamps, stencils and dies are not to be missed! You can subscribe to the kit here. Kits come with a paper pack, stencils, metal dies, stamp sets, embellishments and full colour kit instructions.

 

 

 

Thanks so much for stopping by

Crafty Hugs xx

Karyn

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun by Tracey Campbell

 Hello everyone, it is Tracey Campbell here today to share my latest creation using the Electric Dreams Mini Collection. A bright, bold, fun collection that is the perfect choice for those photos that are a little bit crazy!! Are you like me? When you take photos of your kids they start hamming it up and you take multiple photos just trying to get one nice photo? On this particular day a few times I ended up with at least 100 photo (thankfully we have digital photos now not still film) and I only got 1 nice photo. But I have all these extra ones of the girls being crazy but nice to each other...... which as they are going through the teenage years now it doesn't happen that often. 

Anyhoo enough about my girls, lets scrap!

GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN

I have absolutely loved this collection and am down to a few full sheets left and lots of scraps, so I decided to pull the scraps and see what I could come up with.

I cut the scraps into various sized strips and cut a "V" into each small end of the strip.

Using one of my full sheets left from the Electric Dreams Mini Collection for the base, (the B side of the colourful doodled circle paper) this sheet is mainly white with large colourful script around the edges. I stamped the base sheet with the bubble stamp form the Bokeh Stamp Set and a waterproof black ink. You can use any background stamp that you wish to help emphases the subject in your photos. 

This is the finished shape of the stamping that I have created for my background. A large stamped image on the left of the background and a small shape in the top right hand of the paper.

Next I mixed some pink Neon Colour Mica Powder with some water and splattered it across the stamped shapes with a paint brush.

At this stage I had found three 6.5 cm square photos of my daughters that I knew I was going to used in a portrait photo stack. I wanted to use a bit of the pink Neon colour as the mating for the photo stack but I didn't have any pink neon paper in my stash so I used the pink Neon Colour Mica Powder mixed with water to paint the edges of some white Card Stock. When it was dry I adhered the photos in a stack running down the mat.

Once the Colour Mica Powder slashes were dry I started to layer and over lap the paper strips across the left-hand side of the base.

Next I adhered the mated photo stack down over the top of the layered strips. 

For the finishing touches I fussy cut some of the shooting stars, the hearts and a camera from the "B" side of the paper with the large black and white zig-zags from the Electric Dreams Mini Collection. Then I adhered them in three positions on the layout - you can see the positioning in the final layout. Lastly I used some foam letters to create a title that ran down the right-hand side just under the shooting star. 

Thanks for stopping by and I hope I have inspired you to use those not so perfect photos and to use you scraps from one of you favourite collections. 

Hugs

Tracey

"Mask On" by Charmane Koch

 Happy Friday Everyone! Hopefully it is anyway! I know I am glad it's Friday! I have 5 more days of work including this one, then it is HOLIDAY TIME! CAN>NOT>WAIT!

Today I thought I would share a layout I have been meaning to finish for ages! It went through a long process... firstly a while back I had a play with combining Colour Paste Snow White with Embossing Powder (I had excess of a mix of different Embossing powders I didn't want to throw out!} so I did a couple of backgrounds using Bee Arty Stencils... {check this blog post out!}

So I have had this background in my stash for quite a while. I used the Boxed In Stencil. I also have had the Covid papers to use for a while too, I knew I wanted to document Mask wearing, although had NO IDEA we would be wearing masks for so long! If you want to document Covid - there is an amazing Step by Step Mini Album you can create - FIND THE COVID MINI ALBUM HERE!

To colour my title, I have used a shimmer cube & a splash of water... here's a quick video... you could also use Shimmer Dust and water to create a similar effect!

I love the effect the Snow White Colour Paste and the Embossing Powder creates!

As you can see I have also added the Distance Stencil using the Envy Colour Paste. I did test out a few different Colour Paste colours to work out which one would match the best...

Loved the little Cut-Outs from the Covid Papers - 

And here is the final layout! Lots of journalling on this one!

Thanks again for popping in & I hope I have inspired you to experiment with Snow White Colour Paste & Embossing Powders! It truly does give an awesome effect! 

Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year to you all! 

XO Charm