Let Love Soar ...

I like the colour red, such a happy colour and it just happens to be the feature colour of my bedroom and ensuite bathroom and I also just happened to have a space on a wall that needed filling with something suitably red :)

So, I riffled through the drawers in my craft room and pulled out a few bits and pieces - red paint, a paper doily, a few pots of shimmerz paint, some dewdrops (in red of course), a mini canvas and a valentined themed tissue image sheet and got to work

I started by painting the canvas with paint and then shimmerz paint, I added the doily and used more of the shimmerz paint and spray over the top and when it was dry I distressed it slightly with charcoal chalk ink. I glued a line of red dew drops all around the edges of the canvas, trimmed around one of the elements from the image sheet and added some word snips that I printed from my computer

The wings for my creation came from a digital kit I had on my computer and I sprayed them with two colours of Shimmerz spray and added some golden threads to give them more definition and a hanging loop and my project was finished

Love from Andrea

This is the One!

This is the one that started it all!................These little canvases are so quick and easy to do and the kit will supply most of what you need. You can really make them individual by adding all those saved for best bits! This one uses the gold crackle paint and is then sprayed with green colour wash, but you can use any green dye based inkpad.The wings are gold but with a piece of sandpaper and any permanant marker or alcohol inks then you can have any colour you want. This is silver... sprayed with blue colourwash, again any blue dye ink pad will give a similar effect, just wipe on and remove any excess with a baby wipe.

And here's something a little more cute! Silver this time over painted with Shimmerz Enjoy!

Effie

XXX

The Adventures Of A Mini Canvas ...

My mini canvas project started out life just the same as everyone elses but it wanted more from life, it wanted to be different, to stand out from the crowd. It wanted to stand up and shout "Hey, look at me! I'm different". It wanted to be SPARKLY!! Yes, my miniature canvas wanted Sparkles with a capital S!

And, by the wonders of modern technology - otherwise known as the application of a generous amount of Glossy Accents around all the edges of the canvas quickly followed by the dunking into a pot of Doodlebug chunky turquoise glitter my little canvas's dreams came true and he was SPARKLY and different and he stood out in a crowd ... and the other canvases in the room were secretly jealous of my little sparkly canvas. Ha! Even Jean wished she had a sparkly canvas!!

Now, everyone who knows me understands my passion for sparkle and glitter. Or perhaps I should say they they realise that a life without sparkle and glitter would be an unbearable life for me to live so they put up with sharing a crop table with me and my glitter. They realise that if they want to play with paper and glue and stick stuff together with me then ultimately they are going to be covered in glitter too :)

If you would like to make a mini canvas project like mine (or even like theirs) then pootle over to 3DJean and grab yourself a Canvas Project Kit, perhaps some extra canvases because you know you'll want to make more once you've made one and may I suggest also that you drop into your basket some of this gorgeous Jeni B Blue Shimmerz spray and tumbled glass Distress Ink because to be perfectly honest that beautiful turquoise colour is to die for - and it goes perfectly with glitter and sparkle!

Oooooooh, I just have to add (because I am currently pushing my overloaded shopping trolley down the aisles of Jean's shop) that these turquoise stickles and under the sea dewdrops would go perfectly with the shimmerz spray and distress inks I have already persuaded you to buy!!

Have fun and remember - Glitter isn't just for Christmas, it's for life *giggle*

Andrea x

Jan: Mini canvas

How gorgeous are these mini canvases?

I've painted mine with the silver crackle paint which was left over night to dry. Use a heat gun if you must but don't moan if you're disappointed with the crackle you've been warned!
Colour was added using a blue ink pad and once dry the paper image, wings and bling were added to complete this tiny work of art. I must confess they are very addictive.

It's a MINI CANVAS

These MINI CANVAS PROJECT KITS are now on the website , you get everything to make it for £4 and how do you do it?... well...............

Take the pot of Viva Croco Crackling Colour and spread it all over the canvas , dont panic if it looks thick , a thicker coat gives a better crackle.Leave a little inch square in the middle so that your chipboard piece can stick on flat. Allow this to dry overnight .You can use a heat gun but the end result is not as good by a long way (so if you are impatient , you have been warned lol)

When dry and cracked , spray with shimmerz until desired colour is achieved (I sprayed some on and then with a tissue rubbed colour in). Whilst this is drying choose image and stick on inchies chipboard and mount on paper , cut to size. Stick onto canvas and then add wings (I coloured my wings with pro markers but you can just leave them plain if you want)

Decorate with papers , gems etc. I made a crown out of the paper I used and then used stickles to bling it up even more. Now cut 6 pieces of the florist wire measuring 2cm long . Form a cross on each side of the image and poke through the canvas. With the 2 remaining bend into a "U" shape.

These need pushing into the top of the canvas. With the remaining florists wire bend into a hanger and thread through the 2 loops you have just attached at the top of the canvas.

This should now be finished , if you dont understand any of these instructions just leave a comment and one of the Design Team will help.

Over the next few days all the Design Team will be putting up a picture of their version of this MINI CANVAS