Elephant Mini Canvas

Hi friends! I hope you had a good weekend! Anton spent quite a bit of time crafting and painting with me and I have a project of his to share tomorrow. He particularly enjoys using my Dina Wakley Scribble Sticks at the moment, since he can get a lot of color down quickly and turn it into watercolor if he wants to. Deco Tape is another current favourite. 

This week at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge blog we have an All Creatures Great and Small theme. So you can do any type of project with an animal and/or insect. Don't miss the last project of our October guest designer Wanda Hentges. Wanda created a lovely butterfly card for you this week.

I decided to go with a large creature and also one of my favorite animals, the mighty elephant. This canvas is pretty small, 4 x 5 in, and it was the perfect size for the elephant on the StencilGirl Born to be Wild Animals stencil. I went for a different color combination than I would normally have used, with a bright yellow, orange and pink background. This started out as a tutorial, but then I got in a bit of a hurry and forgot to take the remaining step photos. 

After coating the canvas with gesso, I started out by sponging Dina Wakley's Elephant paint, mixed with a little black to make it darker, through the stencil, and started to paint the elephant with the Elephant paint.

Once I had painted the elephant, I painted the background with Lemon, Cheddar, Fuchsia and a little Blushing paint.

I traced the elephant on SSS Masking Paper and cut out to create both a positive and a negative mask. With the mask in place, I stamped the elephant with the Darkroom Door Scratches stamp, to create and elephant like texture. The I covered the elephant itself with the positive mask and stamped the background with dots using white and Fuchsia paints. Always clean your stamp immediately after using it with paint.

Metallic Medieval paint was mixed into texture paste and applied through the stencil, lining it up with the previous impression of the elephant. I avoided the tusks and used only white texture paste on them. When the paste was dry, I added more Medieval paint, a shadow with a Black Soot marker, white paint on the tusks and gave the elephant eyes.

I added Glossy Accents to the tusks, to make them shine. The metallic heart is by Prima.

Birds in flight were stamped above the elephants head and I painted the edges of the canvas black. After that, the edges were dry-brushed with the Medieval paint, which has a really nice platinum metallic look to it. There are also some Design Tape and metallic Prima stars.

I picked three sentiments from Tim Holtz's Clipping Stickers and inked the edges.

At the bottom of the canvas I added another piece of Design Tape, as well as a piece of Linen Ribbon. The background was also stamped with the Darkroom Door French Script Texture stamp, which you can see here and there.

I hope you will join us this week in our All Creatures Great and Small 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 Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.

Don't forget to follow Simon Says Stamp on Instagram, they post great stuff daily. 

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

Thank you for taking the time to stop by my blog today!

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

Supplies: 

StencilGirl BORN TO BE WILD ANIMALS... [ SSS ] Darkroom Door Cling Stamp SCRATCHES [ SSS ] Darkroom Door Cling Stamp DOTS [ SSS ] Darkroom Door Cling Stamp FRENCH SCRIPT [ SSS ] Darkroom Door Cling Stamp AFRICAN TREES [ SSS ] Prima Marketing TIN HEARTS Finnabair [ SSS ] Tim Holtz Idea-ology CLIPPINGS Stickers [ SSS ] Prima Marketing MINI STARS Finnabair [ SSS ] Tim Holtz Idea-ology CHATTER Design... [ SSS ] Tim Holtz Idea-ology LINEN RIBBON [ SSS ] Simon Says Stamp MASKING PAPER [ SSS ] Wendy Vecchi Embossing Paste WHITE 8OZ [ SSS ] Dina Wakley Ranger WHITE [ SSS ] Dina Wakley Ranger MEDIEVAL [ SSS ] Dina Wakley Ranger FUCHSIA [ SSS ] Dina Wakley Ranger LEMON [ SSS ] Dina Wakley Ranger CHEDDAR [ SSS ] Dina Wakley Ranger ELEPHANT [ SSS ] Dina Wakley Ranger BLACK [ SSS ] Dina Wakley Ranger BLUSHING [ SSS ] Dina Wakley Ranger SET OF 6 [ SSS ] Dina Wakley Ranger PAINT SET OF 11 [ SSS ] Dina Wakley Ranger WHITE GESSO [ SSS ] Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium MATTE [ SSS ] Tim Holtz Distress Markers BLACK SOOT [ SSS ] Tsukineko Stazon STONE GRAY [ SSS ] Tsukineko Stazon JET BLACK [ SSS ] Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad GROUND... [ SSS ] Ranger Inkssentials GLOSSY ACCENTS [ SSS ] Dina Wakley Ranger PALETTE KNIFE [ SSS ] Ranger MINI ROUND INK BLENDING TOOLS [ SSS ] Ranger MINI ROUND FOAM REFILLS [ SSS ] Hero Arts Rubber Stamp SMALL BLOCK TRIO [ SSS ] Ranger Inkssentials Non Stick CRAFT... [ SSS ]

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Create Mixed Media Layout Tutorial

Hello everyone! It is Monday again and of course time for a new Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. Our theme this week is Spread Your Wings. 

I hope you will be able to join us this week and don't forget to check out our wonderful guest designer Autumn Clark.

I was looking through a pile of photos and came up on these photos of Anton from about 2.5 years ago. He was helping me to die cut some flowers (Tim Holtz Tattered Florals), from scrap paper, which we layered together and gave to his teacher as a spring gift. He also stamped papers with hearts which we used to die cut flowers from. I've wanted to scrapbook these photos before, but never got to it. It was also fun seeing some details from the desk in my previous study/studio. The theme of the layout is that art can give you wings.

I started out with a piece of watercolour paper and covered it with gesso. The lines were pressed into the gesso with a ruler.

Squares were partly cut and partly torn into roughly the same size, using patterned papers by Graphic 45, and some vintage text paper. They were adhered with Matte Collage Medium.

Tone down the papers with an uneven layer of gesso.

To add colour, I first painted the page with watered-down Antique Linen and Pumice Stone and, when dry, rubbed a brown Distress Crayon on the gesso lines, to make them more visible. Most of the crayon was rubbed off with a slightly moist cloth.

Stamp here and there with a crackle stamp.

I used the lovely Butterfly Journeys StencilGirl stencil by Carolyn Dube and applied texture paste through it (I missed taking a photo of that step, it was late at night). When the paste was dry, I painted the butterflies with Distress Paint.

The background was also stamped with the same Drawn Hearts stamp that Anton uses in the photos, and Forget-me-not ink.

Because I hadn't used it before, I wanted to try some Faber-Castell Cement Paste and smeared a thin layer on three places of the page.

The page was stamped with a mix of Graphic 45 stamps, most of them from the Safari Adventure line, and my favourite Tim Holtz bird stamp.

I added shadows to the butterflies to make them look more grounded to the page.

I like all the layers on this page, from the gesso with the grid outlines, to all the patterns in the papers, the stamping, colouring, butterflies and finally some embellishments and words.

You was die cut with the SSS Missing You die, using only the second part. Here you can also see the effect of the Cement Paste a little better.

The circle stamps worked well on the butterflies and I found a little stamp on the Safari Adventure 2 set, which was perfect for the small butterflies.

Under the photos I layered some Graphic 45 patterned papers and cut a big tag from mixed media cardstock. I love the Angled Corner Chomper tool, which makes it so easy to make tags in odd sizes and shapes. The journaling is written on the tag.

Guess what happened below the stamped sentiment here? I dropped the stamp on the background when I lifted it up. Oops.

I finished the page with a couple of quotes.

Create was also die cut from patterned paper and label stickers were used as arrows pointing to the title.

I really hope you will join us in our Spread Your Wings 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. 

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

Thank you so much for visiting today! Have a lovely week!

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin 

Supplies:

StencilGirl BUTTERFLY JOURNEYS 9x12	Simon Says Stamp CREATE Wafer Die	Simon Says Stamp MISS YOU Wafer Die	Simon Says DRAWN HEART BACKGROUND	Graphic 45 CITYSCAPES 8 x 8 Paper Pad
Graphic 45 ENCHANTED FOREST 8 x 8	Graphic 45 SAFARI ADVENTURE 1	Graphic 45 SAFARI ADVENTURE 2	Tim Holtz CRACKS & SPECKS	Tim Holtz MINI ORNATES
Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival FORGET-ME-NOT	Ranger Archival Ink Pad JET BLACK	Tim Holtz LABEL LETTERS	Tim Holtz Idea-ology INDEX LABELS	Ranger MIXED MEDIA CARDSTOCK
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Crayons SET 7	Dina Wakley Ranger WHITE GESSO	Ranger TEXTURE PASTE	Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium MATTE	Faber-Castell CEMENT Texture Paste
Tim Holtz Distress Paint RIPE PERSIMMON	Tim Holtz Distress Paint ANTIQUE LINEN	Tim Holtz Distress Paint GROUND ESPRESSO	Tim Holtz Distress Paint BLACK SOOT	Tim Holtz Distress Paint MERMAID LAGOON
Tim Holtz Distress Ink GROUND ESPRESSO	We R Memory Keepers Cropadile CORNER CHOMPER Angle	We R Memory Keepers CROP-A-DILE	Prima Marketing MAYA Planner Flowers	Tim Holtz DISTRESS SPRAYER Ranger
Sizzix BIG SHOT MACHINE Gray And White	Sizzix MINT Standard Cutting Pads	Hero Arts CLEAR ACRYLIC BLOCK 3 by 3	Sizzix MAGNETIC PLATFORM	Ranger MINI ROUND INK BLENDING TOOLS
Dina Wakley Ranger PALETTE KNIFE	Ranger Inkssentials Non Stick CRAFT SHEET	Ranger Inkssentials GLOSSY ACCENTS	Tim Holtz Tonic PAPER DISTRESSER	3M Scotch PINK ATG ADVANCED TAPE GLIDER 1/4
3M Scotch ACID FREE 0.25 Inch x 36 Yard REFILL	Tim Holtz Tonic Craft SCISSORS	Tim Holtz Tonic GUILLOTINE COMFORT PAPER TRIMMER	Ranger Inkssentials Non Stick CRAFT SHEET

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