Silhouette Mixed Media Canvas Tutorial

Hello friends! Today I have an easy mixed media project to share with you. I made a canvas, but you can also do the technique on a card.

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The air is getting colder, especially at night, and autumn is on the way. That made me feel like reaching for warm colors and make a canvas with silhouettes of some flowers, as nature starts to get ready for colder times. I will share an easy way to add stamping to a textured surface, while also giving even more texture. The flower stamps are from one of the Simon Says Stamp sets that I designed, namely Laugh In Flowers.

I started by coating a 6 x 6 canvas with gesso. When dry, paint with yellow Distress Paints and mist with water to blend.

A really easy way of adding stamps to a canvas or another surface which is hard to stamp on, is to use tissue paper. Stamp on the glossy side of the paper. I placed the canvas underneath when planning the design. The flowers are from Laugh In Flowers and the butterfly from Beautiful Butterflies.

Add a layer of gloss medium over the canvas, place the tissue paper into the medium, adding wrinkles here and there. Finish with a second layer of gloss medium. It is best to use gloss and not matte medium, since it makes the tissue paper more transparent.

Add more paint. I also used metallic gold shades here and there, and on the butterfly.

I added a darker shade of brown, since I thought the canvas needed more contrast. The brown was also used to add shading to the flowers.

Stamp the canvas with Simon Says Stamp Old Letter Background at the top and in the 'soil' area, to frame the flowers (and because I love this stamp).

Apply some glue around the edges and on some of the tissue wrinkles. Let dry for a short while and then rub gold foil on top.

The foil is very shiny and gives a lovely texture to the canvas.

You can add more paint to the butterfly if you want too, I decided to just give it a hint of gold.

The globe thistle could also have been colored, but I was aiming for a simple silhouette look, even though this stamp isn't strictly a silhouette.

I couldn't help myself and also glued some sequins to the canvas.

The Queen Anne's Lace might be my favorite stamp on this set and it works great as a silhouette. Of the actual flowers themselves, it is also my favorite.

There are a few tiny dandelions too. 

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

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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