PRIMA Ballerina Canvas!

When I was growing up I so in LOVE with BALLERINAS, almost as much as I LOVE PRIMA FLOWERS!!!  What little girl doesn't dream of being a ballerina. Funny thing is I was never a ballerina, but you can bet this girl has plenty of PRIMA FLOWERS!!!  The images of beautiful ballerina poses are a great compliment to Prima flowers!

Today I have a free standing canvas for you!

Supplies:
Prima Art Alchemy Acrylic Paint:
  Metallique Soft Satin
  Sparks Dragon Eye
Prima Flowers
Altered Pages Collage - 1793 Vintage Ballerinas 
Gel Mediuum
Canvas
Black Gesso
Chipboard Swirls
Tacky Glue

Wet around the edges of the image you would like to use and gently rip around the edges.

Paint Canvas with Black Gesso, let dry. 

Apply gel medium to the canvas, spritz the image with water and lay flat on the wet gel medium.  Smooth the image.  Apply a layer of gel medium over the image. Let dry.

Paint the chipboard swirls front and back with the Prima Art Alchemy Acrylic Paint: Sparks Dragon Eye.  Let dry.

Dap a bit of Prima Art Alchemy Acrylic Paint: Sparks Dragon Eye on the Prima Flower.

Dab Prima Art Alchemy Acrylic Paint: Metallique Soft Satin around the ballerina and on the canvas. Dry!

With Tacky Glue attach the chipboard swirls and flower.... who said you have to stay on the canvas?

What ballerina wouldn't want to display this sparkly gold and pink canvas on their mantle?

 

 

More inspiration photos!

 

 

 

 

PARIS is Beautiful in any Color!

If you know me, you know I love Paris.  Paris is my go to theme for a lot of my art!

This month the Altered Pages Design Team will be using the Pantone color of the year: GREENERY!

Here is Paris with a touch of greenery!

Hopefully you can see the "Greenery" on my collage!

Supplies:
Canvas Board
Large sheet music
Tissue
Black ink
Mailbox Muse Paris stamps - Eiffel Tower
Gel medium
Vintage Text
Gelato - Green
Water Brush
White Flowers Petaloo
Glitter
Heart Pins
Paris words
Gold Design Stickers
Glue

On a Canvas Board paint a light green background using Gelato - Green and a  Water Brush. 

 

While the canvas board dries, stamp the Mailbox Muse Paris stamps - Eiffel Tower with Black ink on tissue.  So the ink will not run on the tissue, prepare the tissue by spraying it with an aerosol hairspray and let it dry before stamping.

 

With gel medium start layering paper on the Canvas Board, first the Vintage Text.

 

Then add a bit of large sheet music,  the words Paris and the stamped tissue.  Set aside to dry.

 

 

While the collaged papers are drying paint the white flowers green with the Gelato - Green and a  Water Brush, let dry.

 

 

Add a dash of Glitter  with the gel medium to the bottom of the canvas.

 

The Gold Design Stickers finish the top of the canvas.

 

Add the final embellishments Heart Pins and painted flowers with glue! 

 

Maybe I have inspired you to go a bit green!

Valentines Day ~ Small Canvas

LOVE IS IN THE AIR....

Here is a canvas I created this week for AlteredPages.com

With Valentines just around the corner... a small Valentine canvas would look great on my desk!

Supplies
Altered Pages Collage sheet : Always in Love
Small Canvas or Art Board
Chalk Paint - Timeless
Chalk Paint - Rouge
Gel medium
Cherry Mist
Black ink
Ruby Red Glitter
Flowers
Glue

Start off with a blank canvas and paint it with Chalk Paint - Timeless and Chalk Paint - Rouge

While the canvas is drying fussy cut image from Altered Pages Collage sheet : Always in Love

With gel medium adhere small doily, then spritz with Cherry Mist, let dry.

Adhere fussy cut image with gel medium, let dry. Then with Black ink  on finger  go around the edge of the canvas to frame it.

Add just a touch of glitter with glue to the corners and adhere flowers!

Love the vintage look of the canvas.

Hope I have inspired you to create your own Valentine canvas!

Creating with Beach Glass!

Today I have used Dixie Belle Paint  and an Altered Pages Lighthouse to create a beach canvas. with a lighthouse in the background.  After I started creating it I remembered I had some beach glass I collected at Glass Beach in Port Townsend, WA.

When I went on my hike to collect the beach glass we couldn't see a lighthouse, but there isn't one too far away!

Supplies:
Dixie Belle Paint Sea Glass
Dixie Belle Van Dyke Brown Glaze
Dixie Belle Swamp Mud Texture Medium - White
Altered Pages Lighthouses Collage Sheet
Canvas
Burlap
Gel Medium
Tacky Glue
Dew Drops
Charms
Sea Glass
Shells

Canvas for this project is 4x4.  Rip the lighthouse image from the Altered Pages Lighthouses Collage Sheet.  Apply a light layer of Gel Medium on the canvas, lay image on wet gel medium and add another layer of Gel Medium over the picture.  Let Dry.

 

Paint edges of canvas and around the image of the lighthouse with Dixie Belle Paint with Sea Glass, like pictured above.

 

Adhere Burlap with Gel Medium to the lower part of the canvas (as pictured), let dry. 

Apply Dixie Belle Swamp Mud Texture Medium - White over the Burlap to create a beach in front of the lighthouse. Let Dry. 

On the dry Dixie Belle Swamp Mud Texture Medium  paint a light layer of Dixie Belle Van Dyke Brown Glaze.  Then apply a very light layer over the lighthouse image.

 

Finally, paint Dixie Belle Van Dyke Brown Glaze on the sides of the canvas! Let dry.

Use Tacky Glue to attach Charms, Sea Glass and Shells on the beach.

Add a few Dew Drops to fill in the treasures on the beach!

Over the embellishments apply a layer of  Gel Medium.

Add a strip of Burlap using Gel Medium around the edges of the canvas.  Let dry.

 

 

It will take about 24 hours for the canvas to totally dry! 

 

 

Where there once was a fence there is now a beach with treasures that have washed ashore and the lighthouse in the distance! 

 

If you are interested in my hike to collect beach glass at Glass Beach near Port Townsend I have a post on my blog HERE.

 

Hope I have inspired you today!