Canvas using Clear Gesso with Embossing Powder Resist

Quite a while ago, I decided to have a go at creating a canvas with a difference and experiment with using clear gesso with embossing powder.  I used the very first Clarity New Design Stencil club offering but the technique would work with a variety of their A5 stencils.

Birds and Flower Row Rice Paper on Canvas Board

I have used this technique previously.  I love how the stamping creates a rich background when the rice paper is added to a canvas board with matte medium.

Butterfly Canvas with Rice Paper Background

This canvas board was made using Royal Talens Ecoline pens for stamping as well as colouring.

Altered Powdered Milk Tin

One of the challenges to celebrate 5000 members over on JJAMMMA (Junk journals and Mindful Mixed Media Art) is to create a piece of free standing altered art.  I started with an empty powdered milk tin and ended up with a storage jar for brushes, decorated suitably using one of the new IndigoBlu stamp sets: Artist Studio.

A Wedding Gift

This is a wedding gift that I made recently. 

For the top panel, I started by colouring some of the Ecoline brush pens directly onto three of the Journaling stamps from Claritystamp and stamping them onto a piece of rice paper, slightly larger than my canvas board.  This was then glued in one piece onto the board using matte gel medium and sealed over the top in the same medium. The gel medium caused the colours to run very slightly, but this just added to the interest of the background.

Black Amsterdam acrylic paint was used through the Love Tree stencil by Claritystamp (NDSC Back Order 20) and dried with a heat tool.

Once clean and dry, the stencil was slightly off set and Amsterdam white acrylic paint was dabbed through.  This had the effect of allowing the stamped background to show through which I wasn't expecting, but love nevertheless.

The word 'Love' from Word Chain 6 (Claritystamp) was stamped in Versamark ink and heat embossed in True White detail embossing powder.  A black micron pen added a drop shadow to match the tree.

Finally, one of the Quote Chips by Tim Holtz was given a black edge using an Ecoline pen and added at the bottom. 

For the bottom panel, I used the same method as before to stamp onto rice paper.

This was adhered to an 8" x 8" canvas board from Claritystamp using matte gel medium in the same way as the top panel.  As you can see, I decided to turn the rice paper 90 degrees first.

Before the top panel was added using double sided adhesive sheets, I went all round the edges using a black pen.

Ecoline pens on Rice Paper and Canvas

I was so proud to have this canvas shown on Hochanda yesterday during the one day special shows with Lou Withers.  I am sharing a step by step as it was such an easy technique with such a vibrant result.

WOYWW 458: A Busy Weekend

Another week has flown by and Wednesday has come round once more.  Time to share desks with the WOYWW crew and chief desker Julia (check out the Stamping Ground for more).  Last weekend was a busy one.  On Saturday, Eva and I went to an all day class with Maria Moorhouse from Claritystamp.  We had a thoroughly fabulous time, working with a two colour palette, paid for as a Mother's Day gift.  Sunday was Mother's Day of course, so I was thoroughly spoilt.  We can't make Maria's April class but will be back in May!

My side of the desk shows a new ink storage rack from Inkylicious.  The instructions were really easy to follow, although there was one stubborn piece which didn't want to go into the slot initially.  I got there in the end though.  It now sits next to my workspace with all my Oxides (and room for the rest when they come out) and my Dylusions paints close to hand.

The finished shelves.

On the other side of the desk, Eva was practising some of the techniques that we used in Maria's class last Saturday, but in different colour ways.

 I will be looking out to see if my samples made it to Hochanda for the Ecoline shows with Lou Withers.  The shows are on at 9am, 1pm and 5pm today.  In case they got lost in the post, here are two of the samples I made with the rice paper and Ecoline pens.

Blogged yesterday (see HERE)

Step by step tomorrow

So that's it for now; hugs to Shaz who hasn't been too well this week and Happy WOYWW to you all.

Love Hand Tree Canvas

This is another of my DT pieces for the Royal Talens shows on Hochanda on the 2nd/3rd January 2018.  Once again, I decided to work on Chinese rice paper and add it to a small canvas board.

Rice Paper Canvas

For my fourth DT project using Royal Talens products, I decided to have a go at creating a canvas with a difference and experiment with using clear gesso with embossing powder.  This is a contrast to the vibrant colours of the previous three days' projects.