C86 Mother Earth Collection

 Altered Canvas - by Lisa-Marie Watling

Materials:

Fabscraps C86 001 Floral Bulbs

Fabscraps C86 003 Natures Garden

Fabscraps DC85 004 Chippie – Forever Blessed

Fabscraps DC85 014 Chippie – Filigree Rounds

Fabscraps DS052 Stencil – Branches of Leaves

Fabscraps M86 001A Carders Pack

Fabscraps DC86 008 Chippie – Birds

12 inch circular canvas

Burgundy cardstock

Watercolour pencils

White craft paing

Gold crackle paste

Chalk inks – olive, brown, teal, straw

Clear and Copper embossing powder

Multi matte medium

Tombow glue

Foam tape

Green glass beads

Glossy accents

Ribbon

Glue gun

Canvas Base

·                Adhere C86 001 Floral bulbs (striped side facing) to your canvas base using multi matte medium.  Allow to dry completely before sanding off the edges (save these offcuts for later)

·                Use DS052 Stencil to apply gold crackle paste to three portions of your canvas (top right, bottom right and left centred)

·                Once completely dry, use the same stencil to apply a few leaves in brown chalk ink

·                Stamp smaller flowers and phrases using olive and straw

·                Chalk the edges of your canvas using olive

Chippies

·                Coat your larger C86 014 filligree round chippie with at least 3 coats of white craft paint.  Once dry, use your watercolour pencils to colour the various aspects of this chippie.  Coat with glossy accents once it has dried completely

·                Adhere bird die cuts from your M86 001A carders pack to both of your DC86 008 chippie birds and then coat both with glossy accents.  Set aside to dry

·                Coat your DC85 004 Forever Blessed chippie with white craft paint.  Once dry, apply random dabs of embossing medium and sprinkle with copper embossing powder; heat emboss.  Brush randomly with teal chalk ink to create a rusted look; coat with glossy accents and set aside to dry

Layering

·                Cut a 8 ¾ inch circle from C86 002.  Chalk the edges with olive and distress

·                Cut a 8 ¾ inch circle from some burgundy cardstock and adhere it to the back of your circle above, to the top right of the circle so that a smaller portion sticks out

·                Cut a few strips from a floral page of your carders pack; chalk with brown and distress. 

·                Arrange your strips and your cut circle pieces onto your canvas base and adhere with tombow

·                Adhere your photograph to the back of your dried filigree chippie

·                Adhere your photograph (using foam tape) to the lower portion of 8 ¾ inch circle set on your canvas base

Finishing Touches

·                Fussy cut flowers, leaves and dragon flies from C86 001 leftover pieces, C86 003 leftover pieces and from one piece of floral paper from your carders pack

·                Apply embossing dabber to just the flowers on these pieces, sprinkle with clear embossing powder and heat emboss

·                Arrange all your fussy cut pieces around the left and right of your filigree chippie frame – be sure to tuck some underneath the chippie.  Adhere two dragon flies onto the chippie itself

·                Adhere one bird on the left hand side of your filigree chippie and the other to the top left portion of the 8 ¾ inch circle set

·                Finish off by adding a few randomly placed glass bead clusters

·                Use a strip of ribbon around the outermost edge of your canvas and adhere with a glue gun