Savor The Beauty Canvas

Hi! This week anything goes at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog! I am looking forward to seeing all the creations. 

 

I sometimes have a hard time deciding what to do on anything goes challenges, but this week I knew I wanted to use the new Hero Arts Elegant Pine stencil. I LOVE this stencil, it is so intricate and the tree looks amazing. You might already know that I like trees, and this week I made a mixed media canvas (5 x 8 in) featuring this great pine tree. I took some step photos.

 

I first gave the canvas a coat of gesso, when it was dry I started by gluing down text paper. Some of the paper was die cut into leaves falling down the canvas, and the rest was torn into hills. I used multi-medium to glue them down. 

I painted the canvas with Distress Paint, watering them down first. You might want to give the canvast a light coat of gesso first, I forgot that for the sky, but did it for the ground part. I made the sky darker towards the top and the hill darker towards the front of the canvas.

I stamped a few swirls with Picket Fence Distress Paint, to add some more movement. Always clean your stamp immediately after using it with paint.

I mixed a little bit of green paint into white Embossing Paste. Don't add too much paint or the paste will lose its consistency. The paste was smeared through the stencil with a palette knife. Carefully lift the stencil and immediately wash it.

When the paste was dry, I dry-brushed a little bit of Forest Moss Distress Paint here and there, to give more colour variation to the tree. I also added just a very tiny bit of Walnut Stain.

It can be hard to stamp on a canvas, because there is no solid support to press the stamp against, I didn't want to risk messing this up with incomplete stamping, so instead I stamped the sentiment and some images on tissue paper with Archival Jet Black. It was adhered to the canvas with multi-medium and become practically invisible. I also added some dots, using the same mix of paint and paste and a border stencil. Again, when these were dry, I dry-brushed darker paint on top.

My canvas had to have some birds, and I love this one from Hero Arts My Favorite set. It was also stamped on tissue paper. I also painted a shadow for the tree, to ground it into the canvas.

This stamp was also stamped on tissue paper. The flying birds were stamped directly on the canvas, because I didn't want them to look as perfect.

I extended the sky and ground onto the sides of the canvas. Here I also added another stamp, first stamped on tissue paper.

I left the other side plain, with just a few paste dots.

Join us this week and remember that anything goes! As every week, one random participant wins a $50 gift voucher from Simon Says Stamp.

 

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Thank you for the visit!

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

Supplies:
Surface: Canvas 5 x 8 in; old book paper; tissue paper
Dies: Sizzix: Mini Tattered Leaves
Stamps: Hero Arts: My Favorite AC030, Collage Friend AC022, Take Time to Savor G5374; Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz: Mini Ornates
Ink: Ranger Archival Ink Jet Black
Paint: Distress Paint: Broken China, Salty Ocean, Mustard Seed, Walnut Stain, Peeled Paint, Forest Moss, Spiced Marmalade, Barn Door, Picket Fence
Stencil: Hero Arts: Elegant Pine, Borders
Medium: Claudine Hellmuth Multi-Medium Matte, Gesso; Wendy Vecchi Stampers Anonymous: White Embossing Paste