I’ve been on a mixed media kick lately after seeing the beautiful work done by Afia from CraftyMe! Be sure to take a peek at the gorgeous mixed media projects on her blog! I was so inspired to get messy and do some of my own! This is the first I did in my series of four (so far!) and it was a 5X7 canvas stretched over a wooden frame. I started the process while it was still on the frame, but then removed the canvas so I could lay it flat to work on. Sadly, I didn’t think to make a video of my process, so I’ll try to share the general idea of how I made this via the photos! To begin, I prepped my canvas with a coat of plain ol’ white craft paint and dried it with my heat tool. I then began to layer on stencils, using teal, black, rusty orange and white for the most part. I tried to arrange the images in an eye-pleasing format. I heat-embossed the floral spray (Demure by Penny Black) in black onto the canvas then painted it in with Gansai Tambi watercolor paints. The last two steps were to stamp in Versafine Onyx Black ink the vintage-y styled word stamp, then I heat-embossed in white BLESSED onto the canvas. I LOVE how this came out and jumped right into making my second one! Again, no video!! DUH! But I created this in much the same manner and removed it from the frame. I coated the canvas with a layer of tan craft paint, dried with a heat tool then started layering on stencils, using gray, black, red, pink, teal and white craft paints. I have a number of stencils which I collected a few years ago when I got into making Gelli prints . The large blossom is from a stencil I made using a stencil cutter which my husband bought for me back then! This part is quite textured because I tried to add a stenciled design using Thermoweb’s Transfer Gel, then changed my mind and scraped off most of the Gel which had already begun to dry. I don’t mind that it left some behind as it added great texture! I stamped this script stamp using Versafine Onyx Black ink. I love the texture of the canvas! This is another script stamp which I stamped with Versamark then heat-embossed with clear powder. I think it’s cool that it’s translucent! I’m going to end this post here but watch for Part Two in my Mixed Media Canvas series! Thank you for visiting! 🙂
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