THANK YOU CANVAS...

A couple of weeks ago a very nice friend gave me a HUGE bag of blank canvases which she found when she had been clearing out... they had been her daughter's and they had been forgotten about and she was being ruthless with the clearing out:0)

 

I saw the start of a canvas on my travels through the world wide web and thought it was lovely...Think it was on the One Fine Day blogspot...

 

I covered the 12"x12" canvas with cut up scraps of patterned paper and then gave it a wash with some of Claudine's Landscape Green mixed with Canvas and some water... I then added a sequin waste mask using black and white and the negative side as well...

 

 

 The beautiful doily pattern was done using a huge doily mask I have(can't remember where from)... I mixed up some texture paste with more of the green paint and then spread it over(I taped a couple of edges with masking tape to hold it)... looked great and I was very nervous peeling it of but it worked brilliantly as you can see...I finished it by rubbing my black inkpad round the edges...

 

 I stamped up the huge butterfly by tattered angels which I have had for ages...I then added a few rub on butterflies, stamped the quote(which I found on the Internet) onto book pages and mod podged on...

I am going to give this to Eleanor as a thank you for the canvases which will be put to good use....

HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY...

It's been a busy month so far so no time for blogging...kids been back at school for a week now after the Easter break....

 

The last day of the holidays was Morgan and Ellie's 14th and 13th birthdays...and as typical teenagers did not want to spend any time with us...lol...did manage to get a couple of photos of them both but I don't dare post them...haha!!! Instead I will show you the birthday cards I made for them...I saw this card the other week on Sarah's Cards blog and thought it was rather cool...I was originally just going to do it for Morgan and then decided it would look just as cool in girly colours too...I love the label maker sentiments and I always forget I have one til I see someone else using it so thanks for the inspiration Tracy

 

Still can't quite believe I have a 14 year old and a 13 year old...where does time go???

 

 

 

 

This one was for my little next door neighbour Cara who turned 9 this last week....It's inspired by this one by Emilie Chamel...I love her style of work...

A LITTLE BIRDIE TOLD ME...

 This is another of my tutorial efforts....I made this and another similar one around Christmas time...i really wasn't feeling well...almost 5 weeks with flu so it took me a while:0))

 

I kept this one and gave the other to Sonja as a belated Christmas present. I forgot to photograph it but maybe she will show it to you on her blog if you ask her nicely!!

 

As soon as I saw the post on the Scattered Scarlet blog I knew I wanted to try it out...I ordered the stamps(and a couple more besides!!) and made two...The house is a stamp that my friend Judy stamped up a few times for me when I was over one day...it's just so cute!!

 

Anyway you can find the tutorial on this Scattered Scarlet blog post!!!

A GOOD HEART...

A few weeks ago I thought I would try out one of the tutorials over at A Sprinkle of Imagination using a heart...I thought I would do two slightly different ones with the intention of using one as a giveaway on my Facebook Page... 

 

 This is the first one and the second one started out the same but a slightly different colour and I didn't like it so it got changed to this one below which is a different take on the wedding canvas a few posts below...lol...

 

I love the stripey sides painted in black and white...

 

This is what I gave to Allan on Valentine's Day...I think I will add the date of our wedding to it just to finish it off...

 

Hope you haven't got too much snow wherever you are today... we seem to have loads!!!

KEEPING UP...

Yes Sonja, so far I am keeping up(with LOs anyway!!!)

 

 

 This is my page for February for my Project Life album that I started this year...so far I am keeping up with the LOs but not so much with the 6x4 pockets...but at least a little bit more happened in February than January so I have something to journal about!

 

 

This is our cute new puppy which we should be getting near the end of April...he is a Tibetan Terrier that we have named Alfie..this being the only name we had for our fourth baby who turned out to be a girl(Niamh)!!

 

I have kick started my scrapbooking with an Art Class Workshop from twopeasinabucket by Wilna Furstenberg which I have to say I am really enjoying...

 

Kirsti xx

FINISHED CANVAS...

As promised here is the finished canvas...

 

 

 

I reprinted the photograph onto Claudine Helmuth stickyback canvas for a softer feel...the papers used are from Glitz Cashmere Dame collection which I love... I did go and make a heart using almost the same identical process as this without the photograph...I will post that later...

 

Thanks for looking!

Kirsti

xxx

DONT FAINT.....

but I've done ANOTHER layout!!!

 

 

 

Earlier in the week I signed up for the Art Class with Wilna Furstenberg over at twopeasinabucket...this is part of one of the first videos...

SNEAK PEAK...

A little sneak peak of a canvas I made for someone to give to their wife on Valentine's Day..

 

First of all I covered the canvas with blocks of  patterned paper from a 6x6 Glitz pack called cashmere dame which is all lovely and vintagey...just my thing...I reprinted the photo onto sticky back canvas to give it the shabby vintage feel as well...painted the initials black and sanded them and added a pretty flower made from book pages...my favourite!

 I added a tag into a glassine envelope so the giver can write their own special message...gave the matting a bit of a spritz with some Mr Huey calico white mister...

 

There is a doily in behind for another touch of vintage and finally the addition (after much hunting and getting some more from Sonja!) I added these two little veneer people to a heart!

 

It is a very pretty canvas and I haven't added the full size photo as it's for Valentine's Day and I don't want it seen before the big day...I will post this later...

MY FIRST LAYOUT FOR MONTHS...

At last....my first layout for what is probably months...I have been trying to upload these pics all week but for some reason they were posting sideways...

 

This is the first layout for my January to December scrapbook...and the first time I have done this project...thanks to Sonja for the push I needed and now I'm not doing fairs I am hoping to have much more time to dedicate to scrapping as well as other crafts.

 

Not many photos or stuff happening in January so very limited...this pic was not actually taken in January but is what we were doing on the first Sunday of the year...i just really like the photo...

 

Kirsti xx

FINISHED PAGES...

As promised here are the art journal pages finished....

 

 

Love the dimension the Ferro paint gives through the stencil...

 

And for anyone interested I found the link again...

 

A Life on Hold

ART JOURNAL...

Well I thought it was time to have another go at art journalling...it's something I've dabbled in over the last few years but never really gotten into as I could never get the hang of the layering but I am determined to have another go so with that in mind I stumbled across a YouTube video...but for the life of me I can't find it again...do you have any idea how many there are on that site;0)

 Started of with a layer of gesso and then painted the page with some water and then added the colour which is wiped down to soften it....added some white to soften a bit more...have to say it is actually a little brighter IRL...winter not good for indoor photography I suspect unless you have all the proper gear(or know how to use your camera to the best of its capabilities..lol.)

 

 Some torn music sheet added and a touch of yellow paint along with a lovely harlequin stamp...I really would like a much bigger one that I have...

 

 Cut out some hearts and stuck them on...

 

I like this last bit that I have done so far...using a charcoal Inktense pencil to highlight them and make them really pop...

 



I'm not finished yet as I am waiting for a(nother) new stencil/template to arrive along with some dimensional paint but so far I am really pleased with it and feel a bit more confident...I think a lot of it is all in the drying process and making sure each layer is dry before adding the next to avoid the muddy colours!!!

 

Hope it's not too snowy where you are...I'm just off to pick the kids and a couple of their friends up from school early as it hasn't stopped all day.

 

Thanks for looking!

Kirsti xx

NEW PROJECT...

This is my new project...will leave you guessing as to what it is....

Answers on a postcard..hee hee!!

 

 

 

PS Sonja....you're not allowed to comment as you know what it is!!!