Flowers and Birds Canvas Tutorial

Hello friends! During May the Eileen Hull Inspiration Team is sharing projects with flowers, which is a perfect theme for this beautiful month. Don't miss all the inspiration from the team. Eileen has many pretty and versatile flower dies.

I made a little canvas board this week, which is going to be a Mother's Day gift (Mother's Day is on 27 May here). It is 4 x5 in big. Sometimes, I really enjoy working on a small scale. I used only one flower from Eileen's Romance Flower die, to make these dimensional flowers and they are really easy to make.

I wasn't sure what to do with the background, but when I spotted Tim Holtz's Aviary Collage Paper one one of my shelves, I thought these birds would be the perfect match. Adhere them to the canvas by adding a layer of Matte Medium below and on top. If you rather want them to be glossy, use gloss multi-medium.

Smear Transparent Texture Paste through the small bubbles stencil in the corners and around the edges of the canvas with a palette knife. Leave to dry.

Paint with watered-down Distress Paint and when dry, dry brush some additional brown paint around the edges.

Die cut the smallest flower on the Romance Flower die from Ranger's Cotton Watercolor paper. You can die cut three flowers in one go, since this is a Bigz die.

I also adhered some natural sticky-back canvas to paper and die cut some more flowers.

Scribble with Dina Wakley's Scribble Sticks. I left the edges white.

Dissolve the pigment with water.

Before the flowers dry completely, scrunch them up.

I arranged the flowers with a canvas one at the bottom. Originally I planned to also use one of the flowers from Heart & Soul Flowers, but I thought it made the flowers too large for the canvas.

Fold four stamen pieces in half and thread through the holes in the flowers.

Ink the flowers slightly with brown ink and glue them to the canvas.

Stamp sentiments from the Simon Says Stamp Mom Flowers set on inky paper.

I also colored three Mirrored Hearts with alcohol ink and glued to the canvas board.

The branches of the tree worked great as a home for these little flowers. I also added some dimension to the sentiment, shaped as a banner.

The paste dots add subtle texture and interest to the background.

I made a couple of flowers smaller, by just using a single die cut watercolor paper flower.

Here you can see how dimensional the flowers are. These little flowers would fit on many different kinds of projects, and you can make them in any color that you want. If you want to make the same flowers but larger, there are three larger shapes of the same flower on the Romance Flower die.

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by today!!

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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