Monday, September 9, 2019

Tumbling Leaves Canvas Tutorial

Hello friends! I hope your weekend was great. We went to a viking market and for a bike ride. The boys also got new rain boots, red ones. They both needed to wear them today because it is pretty wet and rainy.  



I hope you will join us for this week's Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog. We are celebrating STAMPtember®, which has started at Simon Says Stamp. It's a month filled with surprises and inspiration, and even more so this year since it is the 10th STAMPtember®. Our theme this week is Stamp It. For me, stamps are the most wonderful and versatile product that there is. There is also a huge STAMPtember® release of new Simon Says Stamp products.

Don't miss the beautiful projects by our September guest designer Anne Redfern

Layers of ink - Tumbling Leaves Canvas Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. Simon Says Stamp STAMPtember.

I made a canvas panel this week, inspired by the beautiful Tumbling Leaves stencil from the STAMPtember® release. Sentiment stamps were used both as background elements, and to create the title. I wanted to see how Scribble Sticks would work on a canvas, and it turned out that they worked great. The canvas is 5 x 7 in. You can also do this technique on a card or in a journal.

Layers of ink - Tumbling Leaves Canvas Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. Apply texture paste through stencil.

Start by applying texture paste through the stencil with a palette knife.

Layers of ink - Tumbling Leaves Canvas Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. Paint the canvas with gesso.

When the paste is dry, paint with white gesso. When dry, add a layer of Dina Wakley's Clear Gesso, which gives extra tooth for the Scribble Sticks.

Layers of ink - Tumbling Leaves Canvas Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson.

Scribble with light and dark brown around the leaves and at the top. Don't worry about how it looks. There are three Scribble Sticks sets available: set 1, set 2 and set 3. I used crayons from all three.
 Layers of ink - Tumbling Leaves Canvas Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson.

Mist with water and watch the magic. You can smooth out some areas with your finger if needed.

Layers of ink - Tumbling Leaves Canvas Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. Color with Scribble Sticks.

When dry, color the leaves with the autumn colors. You can also add purple, but I left it out today. Don't worry about perfection.

Layers of ink - Tumbling Leaves Canvas Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson.

Use clean water and a paint brush to turn the Scribble Sticks into watercolor, letting the colors blend slightly in the process.

Layers of ink - Tumbling Leaves Canvas Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson.

When dry, add some subtle shine with metallic Scribble Sticks.

Layers of ink - Tumbling Leaves Canvas Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. Add a shadow to the leaves.

If you want to, add a shadow with a Ground Espresso Distress Marker. You can use water to dissolve it somewhat.

Layers of ink - Tumbling Leaves Canvas Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson.

All my 6x6 in SSS background stamp have been missing since the move, and I was happy to finally find them. Stamp the background with a text stamp. I used Good Reading.

Layers of ink - Tumbling Leaves Canvas Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson.

Splatter brown and metallic Scribble Sticks on the background. Wet the crayon with water and flick the tip with a paint brush.

Layers of ink - Tumbling Leaves Canvas Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. Stamp the background.

You can use sentiment stamps as background elements. Here I stamped words and phrases from Tabbed Sentiments. It doesn't matter if they aren't totally readable.
 Layers of ink - Tumbling Leaves Canvas Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson.

Stamp a sentiment with brown Archival Ink on a Tim Holtz Journal Card. Cut the card into a strip. The lace was die cut with Tim's Crochet set and the branches behind the title were die cut with his Fall Foliage from gold paper. I cut another sentiment from the SSS Sentiments Strips 4 set.

Layers of ink - Tumbling Leaves Canvas Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson.

Finally, I glued some sequins from the SSS Sunken Treasure set to the background.

Layers of ink - Tumbling Leaves Canvas Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson.

The mix of readable and not so readable words makes for an interesting background.

Layers of ink - Tumbling Leaves Canvas Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. Acrylic paint leaves.

By adding a simple shadow, you give dimension to the leaves.

Layers of ink - Tumbling Leaves Canvas Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson.

You can even stamp small words over the texture paste, as you can see, even 'happiness' stamped across to leaves, is readable.

I hope you will join us this week in our Stamp It challenge. As always, you have a chance to win a $50 gift voucher to do some fun shopping at Simon Says Stamp. You have until next Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.




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Thank you so much for taking the time to visit my blog today!  

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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8 comments:

  1. Always love to stop by and see what you create - another stunning piece of art - TFS

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  2. This is gorgeous - love those stencilled autumn leaves and all the distressed text stamping in the background.
    Alison x

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  3. Oh, a Viking market sounds so interesting! Your canvas is beautiful, I love the rich autumnal colours! Anne xx

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  4. Gorgeous canvas Anna-Karin :-) the stencilled leaves are so beautiful and I love the colours and whole design of this, absolutely stunning!! :-)

    The Viking market sounds fabulous!! and am sure the boys look very cute in their new red boots :-D

    Hope you have a great day!
    luv
    Lols x x x

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  5. Such a gorgeous project! LOVE the background and of course those colorful leaves!

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  6. Hello Anna Karin! Love, love, love your beautiful autumn coloured canvas. The textures and colours are so beautiful. Thank you for sharing your work! :)
    So sorry I haven't been popping in lately. What a crazy, busy summer. Hope to have more time to check out all your lovely posts now that fall is on its way. :) Hope you and your family all enjoyed the summer season and are all set for the cooler days ahead. Cheers! :)

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  7. Absolutely AWESOME creation, love all the texture, layers and colors! I just saw this on Throw Back Thursday on SSS.

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