Sassy canvas !

Hello, it's Sue here again to share my second guest design project for June. I've been playing with Dylusions Sprays on today's project, so lots of colour !

I saw a project in the latest Craft Stamper magazine that inspired me to get my Dylusions Sprays out and give them an airing ! I've wanted to do a canvas like this for some time but just not got round to it, so decided this was the ideal time ! First of all I've added some Tissue Tape and then coated the whole canvas with Gesso.

 I dried it off with my heat gun and then used Fresh Lime and the Reverse Mini Chicken Wire stencil and the Donna Downey hexagon stencil, I've heat set it then brushed over some more Gesso in random areas. It does smudge the Dylusions ink a little, but that adds to the overall effect.

 I carried on using different stencils and I've also added some torn pieces from an old book, building up the layers and making sure I heat set the ink after each application. Then I've stamped using black Archival ink and the Wendy Vecchi stamp set It's more Flower Art.

I decided that it needed more stencilling so I used the Bingo stencil and Vibrant Turquoise Dylusions. I stamped the dots using a stamp from the Tim Holtz Mixed media set and Broken China Distress Paint. The little flower is stamped using Vermillion Archival ink using the stamp from the Wendy Vecchi Ticket Art set.  I've used a black pen to draw around different parts on the canvas to highlight them a little more. I used the Dina Wakley Grungy Circles stamp with Spiced Marmalade Distress Paint for the circles.

 As I was working I mopped up the excess ink using baby wipes and set them aside to dry. Once dry they have a similar texture to felt and because they've mopped up the ink that's been used on my project they are also colour co-ordinated !

 I used the Tim Holtz Mini Tattered Flower die and also the Tattered Flower strip die to cut several flowers. I've layered them up and used a brad and leaves from the Idea ology Foliage.

 The brackets, stars and arrow have all been painted with Spiced Marmalade Distress paint. The sentiment is a great one from Wendy Vecchi's A Form of Art set which was stamped onto a torn piece of old book page that has been painted with Gesso. I also blended some Peacock Feathers Distress Ink around the edge.

I just wanted to finish with a shot of the edge of the canvas to just prove that I remembered to include them too ! I've used a little coloured wax and rubbed it around the edge of the canvas as a finishing touch.

Thanks for visiting today, see you again next week !

Sue