Seaside Mixed Media Canvas

Hello and welcome to my blog! I hope you are enjoying summer, or winter, since July can be both depending on where you live.Today I have a little mixed media project to share.

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I made a 6x6 canvas board summer scene, with a lot of texture, but not so many details. I used Distress Paint, various pastes and just two small sentiment stamps. 

Start by applying gesso to the surface. I made a horizon line with the gesso, using a palette knife. When dry, add texture paste to the beach area, forming little hills.

When the paste was dry, I placed a little cheese cloth onto the paste and adhere with Snowfall Grit-Paste. I also added some paste to the water. Let dry.

Paint the sea and sky with Distress Paint. I aimed for a light-colored look here.

Paint the sand with Antique Linen and add darker shades to the sea and the sky.

Dry brush brown paint on the beach area to increase the texture. Paint some white lines and marks on the sea and sky area.

Splatter white and blue paint on the canvas. Protect the sky with scrap paper when splattering the blue paint.

I wanted the beach to shimmer and added Ranger's Mica Flakes. I also glued two real sea shells to the board.

Sentiments from Simon Says Stamp Forest Scenery were stamped with Potting Soil ink. I also painted birds in the sky.

The grit paste adds an interesting foamy texture to the sea.

The beach has a nice texture, with the combination of texture paste, grit-paste, cheese cloth, mica flakes and paint.

If you want to you can of course add more details, such as a boat. You can find inspiration for how to make little boats and for how to paint the sea with a palette knife in my At The Sea tutorial.

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

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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Clear Floral Card

 Hello crafters! It is Monday and I hope you had a good weekend. 

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This week our theme at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog is We can see clearly now. Fun! I love to use clear elements on projects the the clear Lego pieces were always my favorites (and still are). Don't miss the lovely project by our July guest designer Natasha Vacca aka Natasha's Colorful Creations.

I have always enjoyed clear cards and thought it was time to make a new one. A fun thing with clear cards is that you can do layering in a different way, since you will see all the layers from the front of the card. I used a tag on the inside of the card, both as a space for a message, but also since it looked nice as a backdrop to the idea-ology Transparent Layer that I used on the front. 

The tag was die cut from a Tim Holtz Backdrops Vol. 4 paper, using the Framed Tags set and Watering Can ink.

I stamped the circles with brown and pink ink, using Simon Says Stamp Mix and Match Circles.

For the main sentiment I used a Quote Chip Label and glued it to the front. White paint was applied around the Transparent Layer to create a frame. It was then stapled to a folded Simon Says Stamp Clear Acetate Sheet.

On the tag, I added lace and a little cheese cloth. It also created space between the tag and the clear front, adding dimension.

The ribbon was dyed with a little Frayed Burlap.

I also stamped a sentiment on the back of the tag, visible if you turn the card around.

Clear cards are a challenge to photograph because of the reflections.

I hope you will join us this week in our We can see clearly now 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.

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Thank you so much for stopping by here today!

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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Ladybug Tag

Hi friends! There are some ladybugs in the garden and they inspired me to do a tag. 

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There are ladybugs in various colors on this tag out and about in the beautiful summer weather. The background is done with a resist technique and the bugs have some shape and dimension. Seeing ladybugs always makes me happy. 

I started out by clear embossing one of Tim Holtz Tiny Print stamps on a tag. You can use white embossing powder instead, I just happened to grab the clear one.

Ink the tag with Distress Ink in pink, orange and red shades. The embossing will resist the ink. Wipe left-over ink off with a cloth.

Die cut five ladybugs with Tim Holtz Funky Insects.

All the ladybugs were inked with Distress Ink, using different shades of ink for variety.

To give the ladybugs dimension, I used Tim Holtz Shaping Kit. 

Glue them together, but don't glue the wings down completely.

The ribbon was dyed with three shades of Distress Ink so that it would coordinate with the tag.

The ladybugs were adhered to the tag with two layers of foam tape. 

I used a Quote Chip Label as the main sentiment. The edges were inked with brown ink.

Clear Drops were used as trails behind the ladybugs. Summer comes from Simon Says Stamp Forest Scenery and was stamped on a Tim Holtz Journal Card.

You could also make all the ladybugs the same color, or use just one on a project.

Foam tape is great for when it comes to adding dimension, and even more so when the ladybugs themselves are already shaped.

The tag could also be done with little flowers instead of ladybugs, or how about butterflies?

Thank you for visiting my blog! 

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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Vintage Transportation Tag

Hello stampers! I hope you are enjoying summer, or winter if you are in the southern hemisphere. It is Monday and we are back with a new Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge.

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This week our theme is Transport It at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog. I hope you will join us and don't miss the gorgeous project by our July guest designer Natasha Vacca aka Natasha's Colorful Creations.

I went on an imaginary voyage. It has a vintage transportation theme in the form a train and a beautiful ship. The images were colored with pencils and the stamps come from Tim Holtz Travel Ways set. It is an older set and one of my favorites.

Start by stamping the train and the ship with Archival Jet Black on a tag. Ink with Antique Linen.

Color the stamped images with colored pencils. I used Prismacolor. I added bits of red and blue to both the train and the ship. Use the white pencil on the smoke, the sea foam and other areas which you want to keep light-colored.

Ink with Distress Ink. The pencil marks will resist the ink.

The large ticket stamp comes from Tim Holtz Artful Voyage.The sentiment was stamped with Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Saturated Royal ink.

I also added three strips of Design Tape Trims.

The two small tickets were stamped with a stamp from Travel Ways on Tim's Backdrops Vol. 4 paper, inked and attached with a paper clip.

I really like this ship stamp and it was fun to use it again. There is also a larger version of it in the Artful Voyage set.

I also added a Game Spinner since the arrow shape works well with the voyage theme.

This beautiful steam train has such great details and it is fun to color.

I hope you will join us this week in our Transport It 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.

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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Nature Collage Panel Tutorial

Hi crafters! Today I am happy to have a tutorial on Simon Says Stamp Store blog. I made a collage panel inspired by nature. 

Here is a sneak peak. This panel is inspired by Tim Holtz new idea-ology products and in particular the Quote Chip Labels. I love the different quotes, sizes and distressed finish of these chips and wanted to use many of them on one project. The background is fabric and there is also some stamping and coloring with colored pencils. 

You can find the whole project and the tutorial on Simon Says Stamp Store Blog. 

Thank you so much for stopping by here today! 

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin