Canvas Art Journal Page Tutorial

Hi friends! I hope you had a nice weekend. We had lovely spring weather and soon the trees are going to start turning green.

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This week we have a Rainbow theme at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog. I hope you will join us and don't miss the beautiful card by our April guest designer Ann Chuang.

I was in the mood of using a photo for this project and picked one of my older double rainbow photos taken in South Africa. It was printed on canvas so that the photo is a part of the background. This started out as an art journal page, but might go into one of my scrapbooking albums instead, since it is a bit of both and since I wanted to stitch all around the page.

After printing the photo on canvas paper I coated the rest of the paper with gesso, letting some of the gesso overlap the photo. Next, I applied texture paste through Simon Says Stamp Mix and Match Circles stencil and added strips of old book paper.

Paint the background with Distress Paint, misting with water to blend.

Sponge Lost Shadow paint through Tim's Bubble stencil.

The title was die cut with Tim Holtz Aphanumeric Emporium die set, using a piece of watercolor paper which had been colored with Distress Inks.

Stamp sentiments on the background. Most of my sentiments come from Tim Holtz Tiny Text, but I also used his Nature's Wonder and Simon Says Stamp Forest Scenery and Anna's Flowers. The circles come from Simon Says Stamp Mix and Match Circles stamp set and the birds are from Tim's Mini Ornates.

Add more texture with Simon Says Stamp Crackle Background and Tim Holtz School Desk alphabet stamp.

The old book paper that I used come from a South African botanical book. I let some of the words show through and in some cases stamped circles around them to make them stand out more. 

Here you can see 'Mother Earth' peek through from the background paper. 

I frayed the edges of the canvas paper and adhered to a piece of watercolor paper. I stitched around the canvas with my sewing machine.

By painting with gesso and paint over the edge of the printed photo, the photo blends into the background. I also stamped on the photo here and there.

I really like these Emporium letters and used them on last week's Lucky Canvas project too.

These birds are one of my all time favorite stamps. The blue ink is Archival Ink Cornflower Blue.

The paste circles add texture and interest without overpowering the photo.

I hope you will join us this week in our Rainbow challenge. You have a chance to win a $25 gift voucher to do some fun shopping at Simon Says Stamp. You have until Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.

Are you going to the Simon Says Stamp CREATE event? Even if you haven't got a ticket, there will be lots of create and takes, being hosted by lots of fabulous companies AND there will be a Simon Says Stamp pop up shop!! CLICK HERE for more details!

Do you use Instagram? If so please add #sssmchallenge so we can see your entries there too.

Thank you so much for stopping by here today! 

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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