Mixed Media Canvas - My married parents

Happy New Year Scrappers!

I thought it's time to create a new mixed media canvas. I haven't used any pictures of my parents and this time I wanted to use a very special photo of them. Isn't this vintage? I got some happy news: I booked a scrap-event with Finnabair in February!!! I'm a huge fan of her work, as you can see, my project is very much inspired by her style. I'm so excited to have a weekend participating in her workshops. After watching some YouTube videos on how to create a mixed media canvas, I gave it another try and this is the finished project: 

I used a lot of different techniques, but mainly: masking, misting and rubbing on some Inka Gold in different colors. 

These are the main steps I used to create the canvas:

1. Here and there I glued down some torn up paper pieces from an old book and covered them lightly with gesso. 

2. After letting it dry, I used two different masks with molding paste.

3. Then I figured out, which elements and which title I wanted to have on my project and glued them down. I used a lot of different items: wood veneers (gears), metal embellishments (i.e. keys, spoons, screws, keyholes...), prima flowers, lace trim and buttons. The small letters are from Maya Road, the larger ones made of grunge board from the Tim Holtz Collection. 

4. Again I let everything dry and covered it with another layer of gesso. 

5. After it dried, I sprayed everything with different matching shades of glimmer and metallic mists. Before I started misting, I covered the photo with a piece of plastic sheet. 

6. Then I rubbed on some Inka Gold with my fingers on every item, to give it a metallic finish. I used the colors: copper, hematite and metallic pink. 

7. Last but not least, I applied some accents with liquid pearls on certain spots.

These butterflies are plain chipboard, which I covered with embossing powder, heated it and then pushed into a stamp while the powder was still quite hot. 

Thanks for reading and a happy 2014! 

Mixed Media Canvas

Hey Crafters,

tonight I'd like to share a mixed media canvas with you, which is totally inspired by LuvLee Scrappin and her video tutorial on her YouTube channel. So if you have any questions, you should watch her video, too :) Her work is absolutely amazing and I love her videos and tutorials. Anyway, this is what I created :)

Finished Mixed Media Canvas #GerryvanGent

Hey Scrappers!

Today I finished - just as promised - my mixed media project from the workshop last weekend with Gerry van Gent. For the base we took a "canvas board" (don't know the exact description), and prepared the edges with some molding paste for more dimension. After heat-setting and distressing the edges, we started with the background. We used some papers from the "Lyric Collection" by Prima Marketing, as well as some Prima stamps and flowers.

I just layered some distressed paper pieces and placed my photo on top of that. I like the result, as it looks really vintage and shabby. Gerry gave us another good tip for bringing some more dimension to your projects as you can see in the close-up:

these clocks are just stamped with Archival Ink on plain cardstock and punched out with a circle punch.  After that I dry-embossed the clocks from the back with an embossing pen on a soft foam-mat (like the piercing-mat from "sew easy"). This gives you just the dimension you want. After that I fixed every clock with a few foam-squares on the layout. An easy way to create your very own embellishment!

In the last picture you can see a cute heart-lollypop. I also made this by myself; I'll explain how:
You'll need a toothpick, some paper scraps, a little paper-punch, some glue and some glitter if you like it shiny.
First punch out two small paper-pieces with your favorite punch. I like to use some small hearts or stars for the lollypops (here I used the small heart-punch from stampin' up). After that, you glue the two paper pieces together, with the toothpick in between. If you don't like glitter, you're already done, it's just that easy! If you want to get it shiny, just cover one side of the paper with some liquid glue, like glossy accents or tacky glue from Aleene's. If you don't want to have glitter anywhere else on your project, let the glue dry and cover your glitter with another layer of transparent glue like glossy accents. It will look like an epoxy-sticker.

That's it for now! I hope you like it!