Joy Everyday Canvas Layout

Hello everyone! A big thank you to everyone who commented on my Frameworks Mosaic post after it was linked in Tim Holtz Springtime Blogworthy links. It is Monday and a new challenge is up at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog. I suggested doing a yellow challenge, because it is one of my favourite colours, such a happy spring colour.

I made a layout using mainly yellow, which just a few touches of white and black. With this amount of yellow, your project will always have a happy feeling. As a base, I used white sticky-back canvas, which gives a great textured feel to the layout and is fun to colour, stamp and stitch. It was coloured with watered-down Distress Paint (Mustard Seed and Scattered Straw). First I held the canvas under a tap, making it completely wet. This helps with getting a fluid watercolour look with the paint. Don't worry if it warps, it won't show once it is dry. To make the layout less flimsy, the canvas was adhered to cardstock.

I was going for a tone-on-tone effect and coloured a second piece of canvas using the same paints. From this piece, I die cut circles and a Picture Wheel. The circles were stitched to the layout. Then I stamped it with various Tim Holtz stamps and two yellow Archival Inks (Saffron and Chrome Yellow). I love the look of the yellow stamping on the canvas. The new Typography and Distress Damask sets will be used a lot by me, such great images. I found a piece of acetate that I had stamped with a script stamp in my scrap box and die cut some circles from that too, for an extra layer. The Alpha Part was painted white and coated with Glossy Accents. There was a Honeycomb Frameworks mirror piece on my desk and I adhered that to the layout too.

A Picture Wheel adds a playful feel to a project and it is fun to embellish. I stamped a compass in the centre and placed a piece of stamped vellum behind it, also adding two rub-on words. 'Joy' was die cut from white sticky-back canvas.

I love this star stamp, either stamp it as a full row, or you could stamp just a star here and there. The flower was stamped on Clearly For Art Modeling Film, heated and shaped. The film keeps its shape perfectly. I found this one in my scrap box too. The vellum piece under the photo was dry embossed.

Two hearts die cut from vellum, more stitching, stamping, a rub-on and an Alpha Part arrow.

Under the photo, I added a film strip ribbon, more rub-ons and some lace trim.

I hope you will join us in our yellow challenge this week! As every week, one random participant wins a $50 gift voucher from Simon Says Stamp and can do some shopping.

Thank you for the visit!

Anna-Karin

Supplies:
Surfaces: Ranger White Sticky-Back Canvas; Wendy Vecchi Clearly For Art Modeling Film; Tim Holtz Idea-ology Mirrored Sheet; Bazzill vellum
Dies: Sizzix: Picture Wheel, Sized Circles, Mini Hearts, Honeycomb Frameworks, Vintage Market XL
Embossing folder: Sizzix: Courtyard & Trellis
Stamps: Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz: Distress Damask, Typography, Mini Muse, Classics #9, Air Travel; Stampers Anonymous Wendy Vecchi: Forever Art, Metro Art
Ink: Archival Ink: Saffron, Chrome Yellow; Tsukineko Stazon: Cotton White, Platinum
Paint: Distress Paint: Mustard Seed, Scattered Straw, Picket Fence
Embellishments: Tim Holtz Idea-ology: Life Quotes Remnant Rubs, Framed Alpha Parts, Lavish Trim, Filmstrip Ribbon, Game Spinners, Long Fasteners