Sweet Poppy Canvases

Good morning, Kirsten here with two canvases to show you. I used Sweet Poppy stencils, (Mushroom Dwelling & Oriental Lily) & Dimension pastes, as well as Brusho Crystals, acrylic paint & Crackle medium on 20x20cm canvas boards.

I mixed purple Brusho with white dimension paste & scraped it onto the board with a palette knife, varying the depth of coverage & leaving gaps. I sprinkled a little more purple Brusho onto the wet paste & set the canvas aside to dry.

The next step was to fill in the white areas with washes of orange & yellow Brusho, drying in between to build up the colour. Once I was happy with that I applied Glossy Black paste through the Oriental Lily stencil & once again set the canvas aside to dry............

To finish the canvas I applied black gesso through the That Special Touch Splats stencil around the edge of the canvas & clear embossing ink through the Imagination Crafts Leaf Swirl stencil, topping with gold embossing powder & heat setting..................

This gives you an idea of how glossy the black dimensional paste is...........

I painted the second canvas firstly with a grey-blue acrylic paint, applied Imagination Crafts' Crackle Medium on top, when that was dry I applied a wash of an off-white acrylic paint...........

I sprinkled on Ost Blue & Yellow Brusho crystals, spritzed the canvas with water to activate the colour in the crystals & repeated, adding & taking away colour until was I happy. When the Brusho colours had dried I added stenciling; 

Imagination Crafts' Honeycomb stencil, the Pronty Waves stencil & the TCW Sketch Grid stencil with Distress inks & Imagination Crafts' stencil paint in Rose, Royal Blue & Bluebell...............

 I applied the black paste though the Mushroom Dwelling stencil - because the canvas boards are thicker than card, you can't use a magnetic sheet underneath to hold the stencil in place, so you need to make sure you secure the stencil with plenty of masking tape.

This canvas then sat in my craft room until Lisa suggested I add some gold to it. I followed her idea for the class projects, using gold gilding flakes & copper glitter at the bottom & as with the first canvas, embossing ink through a stencil, this time The Crafter's Workshop Sketch Grid stencil, and gold embossing powder..........

                                  

Thanks for visiting the blog today & happy crafting. See you next time.

Kirsten