She Art Canvas

Several months ago I had great fun at the She Art online workshop with Chrissy Tomlinson. Really enjoyed it as I haven't done anything like this for simply ages.

What ever you are doing this weekend, Enjoy!

Happy Crafting.

Love and hugs Lynne xox

Bees Wax Canvas

We had a fab night last night in the studio. We had the melt pots and bees wax out again.

We made slightly smaller canvases this time 8" x 8" with a sewing theme. Thanks ladies, very enjoyable night.

I used Claudines studio paints in Tradition Tan, Sky Blue and Stable Brown. Stamped in Timber Brown StazOn on to a dress pattern. Love how it shows parts of the pattern through. When using dress makers tissue it gives a darker aged look to the finshed canvas than if using white tissues.

The budding artist at work on Monday painting hearts for Mum & Dad.

Happy Crafting Lynne xx

Tissue & Wax

When crafting with friends a couple of weeks ago I'd been a bit naughty the week before, I had finished my canvas in between our meeting. I was so into it I couldn't leave it alone. So what else could a girl do but start another one and here it is.

For the background I applied Landscape Green and Altered Orange Studio paint  lightly with baby wipes then  highlights of Classic Teal here and there applied with a card. Stamped some white and cream gift tissue with StazOn in Pumpkin, Timber Brown, and Green  added to canvas in layers of tissue and natural bees wax. Finished off with some hardware bits and InkaGold to edges.

Happy Crafting Lynne x

Start them young

On Wednesday night we created faux dichroic glass using the melt pot.

A create technique for pendants or beautiful embellishments on canvases and large projects.

I have wrapped silver craft wire around this one ready for a project.

Ava spent the day with me in the studio on Thursday, we had a great time.

Ava painting wooden shapes.

A young crafter in the making I think, don't you?

Only one more sleep until the Ranger workshop with T!m's, can't wait.

I will be like Ava... can't sleep I'm too excited!!
Ava couldn't wait to get here on Thursday to do painting with me. lol

 

What ever you are doing this weekend ENJOY!

 

I will be back on Monday to show and tell about about my trip to the NEC.

Happy crafting Lynne xoxo

A very busy and exciting week a head...

As promised a picture of the whole canvas.

It is so big it is hard to fit it all on without a wide angled lens.

Monday was my day off so I caught up with a few job and went shopping with BH and in the evening we went out for a lovely meal for Valentines day. Yesterday was our Easter and Spring card making workshop. This was a very full and busy class also very enjoyable with lots of laughs along the way. The melt pots are coming out again for todays workshop we are making faux dichroic glass pendants. Thursday is play day as Ava is coming for the day, can't wait, that will be lots of fun. Friday is more crafting with the melt pots this time with beeswax.

The studio will close at 4pm on Friday 18th Feb until 10am on Tuesday 22nd Feb.

I am off to Birmingham on Sat for the weekend for Stitches, the UK trade show. On Saturday I am booked on a Ranger workshop, find it hard to believe a whole year has gone by since I made this in last years workshop

OK I am off to the vets now to get Alfie weighed.

What ever you are doing to day enjoy!

Happy Crafting.

Hugs Lynne xx

Sew relaxing...

On Friday I spent the day crafting with three good friends. We got out the melt pots, bees wax, paints, canvas, inks and stamps. We took inspiration from Hels Sheridan article in the March issue of Craft Stamper 'Buzzing for Beeswax'

I have used a large canvas approx 14" x 18" with four small canvases attached in varying sizes.

I applied Traditional Tan acrylic paint to all canvases using a baby wipe. Over the top I added a mixed of Sky Blue and Blank Canvas to soften added here and there. Lines of Sable Brown with the edge of a card. While the paint was drying I cut pieces of white gift tissue to fit each canvas and stamped using assorted sewing themed stamps with Timber Brown StazOn.

I attached the tissue to the canvas using melted natural beeswax. I find the smell of melted beeswax very relaxing.

When the wax was cold I buffed up with a soft cloth, this gives the project a lovely shine. The deeper the wax the better the shine. All the canvases are edged with Old Gold Inka Gold. I have then attached various bits and bobs from my sewing box to finish off including some sewing feet, bobbins and shuttles from an old sewing machines.

I will take a picture of the whole project tomorrow as today's pic is very poor so not loading it.

Hope you are all having a relaxing week end.

Happy Crafting Lynne x

What do you do with your packaging?

A couple of weeks ago the lovely Jill from over at Pudding Burner Crafts set a few of us a challenge. The task was to create something from packaging, very nice packaging it was too.

I had already got a prepared and painted canvas with assorted blues and a little eggplant acrylic paint on a couple of pics and some bees wax. It hadn't turned out how I planned it so it was sat in the WIP to look at later box!! I peeled off the pics with a craft knife. Painted a little white pearl paint dabber here and there to soften the darkness of the eggplant. No white acrylic left!! Heated with the heat gun which melted the wax and made a few bubbles here and there, mmmm that was more like it.... even started to look a little like sky...

I inked a piece of the packaging with Frayed Burlap DI and stamped text randomly all over it in archival black ink, cut and shaped it. I covered a Craftwork Cards chipboard bird with an inked piece of music paper, painted with Rock Candy distress crackle paint an added a brad for an eye. Attached my nest to the canvas with Mat Medium added RC distress crackle paint here and there and sprinkled with sage ultra fine Flower Soft to give a moss like effect to the nest.

I took the off cuts of packaging, cut up into slivers to create branches added a few brown card punched MS border branches to give it more of a tree like effect, finished off with a large flower cut with T!ms tattered florals die a circle of grunge board and button for centre, yummy thick felt flower with beaded centre and a few Prima leaves, my bird now has a home.

Next time you have a parcel delivered have look to see if there is anything you can create from the packaging, I would love to see what you come up with.

What ever you are doing today, enjoy and happy crafting.

Hugs Lynne xx

Crafting with friends...

I spent a lovely day last week crafting with friends. It was just what I needed. A very enjoyable day from start to finish. Lots of laughs, drinking of coffee and the food was delicious. Need I say more? You get the picture, a real tonic of a day, just what I needed. We all set off with more or less the same materials, canvas board, paints corrugated card, yummy papers and assorted embellies but they all turned out very differently.

The fence should weather well has it has had three coats of paint, lol and I am still not happy with it. It is mushroom brown at the moment so it has changed since this pic was taken and it will be changing again very soon!

Although the fence needs altering I am pleased with how it turned out.

In fact it might end up on the next timetable yet!

What every you are doing today, enjoy and happy crafting.

Love and hugs Lynne xoxox