Distress Crayon Canvas Tutorial

Hello friends! Welcome back to another Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. This week we are taking a Leap Into the Unknown. What a great challenge theme!

I made an 8 x 8 in canvas board about daring to imagine new possibilities. I also used my brand new Distress Crayons as well as Tim Holtz Collage Media, and had lots of fun with them. The Distress Crayons are really fun and I am looking forward to using them more and playing around with different techniques. I took some step photos. You can easily use the techniques for a card or a scrapbooking layout instead. 

I started out by stamping the pencil Blueprint stamp on a Pocket Card. I love the design of the Pocket Cards, and you can use them for many other things than pocket projects. For more ideas, check out this layout and my December Daily journal.

Colour the pencils with Distress Crayons. I used crayons from both Set 1 and Set 2. Use a paint brush with a little bit of water to blend them. I also added a shadow with Hickory Smoke Distress Ink. 

I coated the canvas with gesso and then planned out my collage. Some of the pieces were sanded beforehand. Before starting to glue things down, I took a photo of the placement, so that I knew where to place all the pieces. Glue them down with Matte Collage Medium. I really liked this medium, it is thin, made no bubbles in the papers and, importantly, dried really fast. 

To unify all my different pieces, I gave them a thin coat of Vintage Collage Medium. This gives a slight light brown look, you can see it more clearly over the white canvas. Let dry.

Next, I added a layer of Crazing Medium on top of the paper pieces. Let dry.

Now to the really fun part, and I was having so much fun that I forgot to take a step photo. Apply Distress Crayon to the canvas, alternating the colours and blending them out with your finger. They are very creamy and blend really well. I added some to the ephemera pieces too. Place a stencil or two on top and rub through the stencil with a slightly moist cloth. This step removes the crayon.

I gave the paper pieces a border with a Black Soot Distress Marker. You could also use a black Distress Crayon, but I don't have the third set yet, but I will get it soon.

I also added some black Distress Paint stenciling, since I felt that the canvas needed more black.

Splatter the background with Black Soot paint and a Distress Splatter brush.

You can also use the crayons on metal, and I coloured idea-ology pieces with it.

When it was dry, I painted a thin coat of Matte Collage Medium over everything, since I wanted to set the crayon. If you work fast, and don't go over the same area more than once, the crayon doesn't seem to move much in this step. To be sure, I scooped out the medium on my craft sheet, instead of taking it from the jar, so that I didn't transfer any colour to the jar.

The butterflies were die cut from the new Textile Surfaces. The fabric is adhesive backed, so is is very easy to adhere to the project.

Here you can see the crayon colouring on the rose a little better. If you look carefully, you can also see the subtle crackles from the Crazing Medium, especially on the flower ephemera.

I love these new Watch Cameos. A clock was stamped on Dapper patterned paper, and I drew clock arms and coloured it slightly with a crayon. The effect of the epoxy sticker that comes with the cameos is very cool, but you can't quite see it on this photo.

It is fun to layer pieces of ephemera. Green crayon was rubbed into the Typed Token.

I love this sentiment stamp and it fit real well on this journaling card. The new Alpha Dice are fun. I used them to write my initials.

It is easy to colour with the crayons and fun to blend them with water.

'Dream' is cut from one of the journaling cards, and I also used a favourite Word Band. 

I hope you will join us in our Leap into the unknown challenge. As every week, you have a chance to win a $50 gift voucher from Simon Says Stamp. You have until Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.

If you want to, follow Simon Says Stamp on Instagram, they post great stuff daily. 

If you use instagram add #sssmchallenge to your challenge entry uploads, so that we can see them on there too.

I hope you will have a lovely week and thank you for stopping by today!

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

Supplies:

Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Crayons SET 2	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Crayons SET 1	Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium MATTE	Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium VINTAGE	Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium CRAZING
Tim Holtz Sizzix TINY SHAPES	Tim Holtz SCHOOLHOUSE BLUEPRINT	Tim Holtz GOING SOMEWHERE	Tim Holtz TINY THINGS	Tim Holtz Stencil CARGO
Tim Holtz Stencil TRAVELER	Tim Holtz Stencil FLOURISH	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Ephemera Pack EMPORIUM	Tim Holtz Idea-ology POCKET CARDS	Tim Holtz Ephemera Pack EXPEDITION
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Ephemera Pack THRIFT SHOP	Tim Holtz 12 x 12 Paper Stash DAPPER	Tim Holtz ALPHA DICE	Tim Holtz WATCH CAMEOS	Tim Holtz Idea-ology NAILHEADS Findings TH93277
Tim Holtz TEXTILE SURFACES Paperie	Tim Holtz NATURE Adornments	Tim Holtz TYPED TOKENS	Tim Holtz Metal WORD BANDS	Tim Holtz Distress Ink HICKORY SMOKE
Tim Holtz Distress Paint BLACK SOOT	Tim Holtz Distress MARKERS BLACK SOOT	Tim Holtz Distress SPLATTER BRUSH	Tim Holtz SANDING GRIP	Ranger Inkssentials Non Stick CRAFT SHEET
Tim Holtz DISTRESS SPRAYER Ranger

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