Embrace your Dreams - Reverse Canvas - The Dusty Attic

I am still loving creating reverse canvases... I love that I start with a pristine base and end up with an art-piece that really invented itself.  From the tearing and rolling back the canvas, to adding the final touches, I just relax and create and then realise it's finished!

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This one actually wasn't looking so great at it's beginning.  I had a muddle of colours that were competing with each other instead of blending like well behaved colours should.  So I watered down some Dusty in Colour Mountain Meadow to create a spray and used that to help blend all the colours.  Because there is so much body in the paint, and it dries so fast, the spray version created a perfect medium and helped blend all my colours together beautifully!  {Remember to make up in small lots and rinse out your spray bottles after each use or the paint may set in the pump}.

This part I'm really excited about and had to share as my first closeup!  I used a whole bottle of Dusty in Colour Clear Crackle Varnish in the background once the canvas was completed, I took a chance that I'd get some impressive cracks this way.  It was a deep pool of varnish and took days to dry out... but look at those deep deep cracks, I LOVE them!  Dusty's Crackle and Gloss Varnishes are so well priced that it's really affordable to 'waste' a whole bottle as a background glaze... and as you can see, the effect certainly wasn't a waste!

I chose to use Dusty's new Corner Scroll #4 for this one... I like the bold yet dreamy pattern of the scroll, and with it coming in two sizes in the one pack I could create a layered effect with the smaller one tucked into the base under the large corner scroll.

The chipboard was glued onto the canvas raw, and sprayed at the same time as the canvas was to give it a flowing look.  The edges were defined with Viva InkaGold rub, as were the canvas textures.

Thanks for visiting today... I hope you love the deep crackle effect and are inspired to give it a go also.  Just remember, if you use a really thick coat, it will need time to dry through, don't get impatient and 'touch' it to see if it's dry {LOL like I do}.  If the weather is cold or wet, pop it in front of the heater to help it dry quicker.

Dusty Attic Products used:

Corner Scroll #4

Dusty in Colour Paint - Mountain Meadow

Dusty in Colour Clear Crackle Varnish

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Art Soul Life Mini Canvas - Donna Salazar Designs

Hi everyone!  Today I have a little art canvas to share with you... I created this while I was procrastinating making something else, thinking it was supposed to happen that way!

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I have used Want 2 Scrap stencils with Texture Paste to created the brick wall background and layered it with loads of colour.  

I've cut some butterflies from Want 2 Scrap canvas, coloured them and added matching Bling to give them loads of wow factor.

I've made some flowers with the Mulberry Paper from the Mix'd Media Stax 2.  I love the different effect using the Mulberry has instead of using plain patterned papers. I have wet them after cutting and shaping them and the water made the paper soften even more and create this felt like look.

 I've also cut some shadow flowers from mulberry paper which I've coloured with smooch spritz, they add a soft contrast with the bricks.

I hope you like what I have created... I had lots of fun making a mess with this one!  I have a step by step tutorial also for you  on how I created the background, and how to utilise all the left over colour.

Brick Wall Canvas Background - PDF Download

The link links across to Box.net where you'll be able to preview and download the PDF.

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Products Used:

Papers:

GCD Studios Mix'd Media Stax 2 - Mulberry Paper

Chipboard:

GCD Studios Chipboard Alphas - Fun and Funky

Colour:

Clearsnap Smooch Spritz - River Mossy, Green Olive, Sea Kiss, Sea Breeze

Bling:

Want 2 Scrap Wonderful Wings Bling

Want 2 Scrap B.Y.O.B

Dies:

Spellbinders Wonderful Wings, Rose Creations, Bitty Blossoms, Shadow Flowers

Stencils:

Want 2 Scrap Brick Wall Stencil

Flowers:

Green Tara Roses, Cherry Blossoms

Other:

Zutter 5x7' Canvas Art Board

Want 2 Scrap Canvas

Green Tara Polka Dot Organza Ribbon

Jo Sonya Texture Paste

Love and Magic, Reverse Canvas - Green Tara

I sat down to create a lovely layout to share with you all on the weekend, and created a reverse canvas instead... as you do!  It's funny where your imagination and products will take you.  

I had collected a pack of the petals and a mix of roses, as well as some banana leaf fibre paper and that stunning piece of lace... all in those lovely seaglass, turquoise and white tones... my favourite, and then just played and ended up with another item to decorate my studio with!!

I reversed the canvas and lined it with the 12x12 Banana Leaf Fibre paper, allowing it to crumple to add texture.  I added impasto to hold the lace and add texture and also used some Opaque Flakes Medium and Diamond Dust to add sparkle and interest.  I love the effect of all these wonderful textures.

Then I adhered a few of the flat petals from the petal pack.  These are such a great quick grab item, 22 petals with different sizes, all in the some colour.  I used white here so that I could spray them with some colour.  I overlapped them and covered most of the background, leaving the fabulous banana leaf fibre to show through in places and then I sprayed with smooch spritz inks to get some amazing colour and shimmer happening. 

I tucked in some Dusty Attic Flourishes which were painted white and then covered with Fairy Dust Glitter... I love sparkle.

 

A little quote that means something to me...

 

I hung a Dusty Attic Birdcage from the lace with some rusted old necklace chain, saves to hold onto those old bits of 'junk', they come in handy!

Ahhh where would we be without the beautiful Green Tara roses!  I have used 3cm, 2cm, 1.5cm and 1cm roses in White, Mint and the new Turquoise.   Some of them were sprayed with Ice Rink Smooch Spritz to give them just the right tonings {and shimmer} to match my background.

I hand painted this little bird I had in my stash with Smooch Ink to match, she was just right sitting with the flowers!

Thanks for visiting, take care and be true to you.  Mis xo

Green Tara Products used:

Paper: 

Green Tara Banana Leaf Fibre, Moss

Flowers: 

GreenTara  Roses, 3cm Turquoise, 2cm White and Mint, 1.5cm and 1cm White

Green Tara Petal Pack, White

Lace: 

Green Tara 8.5cm Off White Lace

Other Products Used:

Chipboard: 

Dusty Attic Birdcage #5

Dusty Attic Mini Scrolls

Ink:

Clearsnap Smooch - Ocean Soul, Frosted Aqua, Pool, Mocha, Shabby Pink, Moonlight

Clearsnap Mix'd Media Inx - Jasmine, Peridot

Clearsnap Mix'd Media Inx Re-Inker - Peridot

Embossing Powder:

Ranger Antiquities - Verdigris, Rust

Colour:

Clearsnap Smooch Spritz - Ice Rink, River Mossy, Olive Vine

Mediums:

Jo Sonya Gesso - White

Liquitex White Opaque Flakes

Mont Marte Impasto

Glitter:

Clearsnap Fairy Dust Glitter - Sugar Shimmer

Twinklets Diamond Dust

Other:

Inkssentials Crackle Accents

Bird, Authentque Diction Stickers

Tools:

Heat Gun

Adhesives:

Helmar Tiger Grip

Inkssentials Glue'n'Seal

Allison Ellis Hotset Powder

Divine Diva Canvas

"Jen, could I one day have a dress forme, with wings, chippie"... "sure Mis"!

Lookie here, isn't she beautiful!  I love that Jen makes our chippie dreams come true, what a woman!

I had loads of fun with this, I love creating a mess!  Layers of tissue paper and lace, then impasto and loads of mists.  I love using Impasto with lace, it squishes in holding it to the project, without losing all the wonderful texture.

Her beautiful wings were saturated with water until the layers were easily lifted, all those feathers are etched into the chipboard and lift and fluff so easily once you've soaked them with water.

She was glittered and sealed, and then dressed in lace and muslin... and now she keeps me company as I scrap away!

Thanks for visiting, take care and

Where Thou Art

Another Mixed Media Canvas... this was such messy icky fun, I had paint, gesso and impasto everywhere!

There are many layers on the canvas, Donna Salazar Antiquities PP, Dress Pattern Tissue and; 7 Gypsies Tissue as a background, layered with vintage doilies, paint, impasto and many sprays! All topped off with delicious Dusty Attic and always so pretty Green Tara Roses!!

 The cogs were painted with Adirondack Copper and Terracotta Paints, dabbed with TH Distress Stain Walnut and then spritzed with Pearl Mist. This was heated until the copper paint bubbled to create texture.

 

The Wrought Iron Decorative Trim was painted in warm white and then spritzed with Moonshadow Pirate's Plunder Gold.

The dress form was painted in Golden's Titan Buff and Raw Umber, misted with Moonshadow Pirate's Plunder Gold and then dressed in Green Tara lace and muslin.

I am creating a step by step tutorial for the background on this one if you are interested, so check back soon, it should be up by the end of the month.  It's surprisingly easy and uses a minimal amount of 'fancy' art mediums, most you already likely will have in your stash!

Products used:

Dusty Attic 

    Wrought Iron Trim Set DA0547
    Dress Form #2 DA0390
    Jumbo Cogs DA0232
    Cogs 2 DA0002

Green Tara

   Lace L2864W

   Roses 1cm Ivory FDR001Iv

   Roses 2cm Red FDR006R

   Roses 2cm White FDR006Wh

Antiquities by Donna Salazar PP - Vintage Gears
7 Gypsies Tissue
Dress Pattern Tissue

Vintage Crochet Doily
Buttons


Mediums:
Derivan Impasto
Jo Sonya, Adirondack & Golden Paints
Claudia Helmuth Gesso
Glue & Seal, Mod Podge & Helmar Tiger Grip
Lindys Stamp Gang Moonshadow & Starburst Stains

 Thanks for visiting, take care and

All things are possible...

...in the land of Faerie!

I love this Dusty Attic Garden Fairy DA0278... last night I wanted to play with something but had no photos that were working for me, but she called to me to be created!

I have to admit, before I went to bed last night she looked like a dodgy fairy, but there must have been some magic in the air last night because this morning she was gorgeous... and so a canvas needed to be created!

The Canvas background is mixed media, using paper offcuts and tissue paper, all glued down and then tinted with paints and mists... then a little impasto to create texture, gesso and then more mists.  I have used Glimmermists as well as Starburst Stains on this one.  The Starburst Stains have that amazing glimmer!!

These Dusty Attic Leafy Stems #3 DA0580 above and Russian Alphabet DA0522 below were both painted white, dabbed with aqua paint, spritzed with Moonshadow Pirate's Plunder Gold and then coated with dimensional magic and sprinkled with mica flakes!

The gorgeous Dusty Attic Garden Fairy was painted white first and then with Golden Titan Buff for the skin tones, Golden Raw Umber for the hair {and left thick for texture}, and with Moonglow Glitz Spritz Desert Moon Horny Toad Teal {how's that for a name}, it gave her freckles!  Her wings were 'smooched' with Smooch {by Clearnsnap} Ocean Soul, Frosted Aqua & a little Habby Pink, and lastly were backed with Textiva Fusible Film.   She was then dressed in lovely soft muslin and draped in ZVA Bling!

The canvas was trimmed with some delicious Green Tara Lace L2898OW and was coloured with the same mists used over the canvas... love this lace!!

She will look beautiful on the wall in my new scrap room {if it ever gets finished}... she's for me, all mine!!

Thanks for visiting, take care and

Flooded Canvas

Here's my flooded canvas from my class today with Linda Baldock, what a woman... I wish we didn't have to let her go home, would so love to spend more time with her! My 1st canvas with her is still under construction, it looked somewhat like an exploded cupcake, which for an art piece about exploded cupcakes would have been fine... for old world time, not so good! But this one... this one I LOVE!! I guess like most things for me... I learn, take away... get comfortable and then do my own thing, this 2nd time around I was far more relaxed... and it shows I think {even with the big bling swirl that I HAD to add... because I tragically love the stuff}.

So I've called this one L,S,D {Lucy, Sky, Diamonds}... yeah cliche but I like!





I also made this one at a play and create night at Linda's mum's house... nice eh!! It's on my 'crocheted by me' hat... poor hat needed some sort of class!! If you want a chance to win a Linda Original Handmade Bloom Ring, then pop on over to her blog here, and follow the instructions!!


Andddd... I made an awesome clock at Tomorrow's Memories with Evana, delish big Dusty Attic one. Just need to add the clock mechanism and get a decent shot, but it's dark now so you'll just have to drool over the Linda Art until I get that done.

So that's me... best go spend some time with the boys so they remember who I am! I've had an amazing weekend and am really feeling it now, had a major headache all day, one trying to be a migraine but it's not allowed, nope... too much to do!! I think a very early night is on the cards!

Take care of you.

My 1st Mixed Media Art Canvas

Instead of doing the grocery shopping, housework, baking and rearranging our bedroom like a good little Mis... I created this. Much much much more fun!!

Unfortunately though, now the shopping, housework, baking and rearranging our bedroom still needs to be done... sometime...

Do you like?? Isn't the little nicho for the bird gorgeous? And isn't that sweet little bird so cute in her happy nest! I've been hoarding it {the nicho} for months knowing I had to create a bird nest from it, but not quite knowing where to start - today I got the alcohol inks out and finally decorated it. Can't wait to do another one.

Until next time, take care of you.