C75 TRANQUILITY COLLECTION
Relax and Unwind - Retro Canvas
I love the 50s and 60s retro era and so when I saw some of
the patterned paper from this Tranquility collection, I knew I had to create
something with a retro theme. I
had printed the photo, a little while ago, and it seemed very fitting to use it
now, for this retro project! ;-)
Supplies List:
Patterned Paper: FabScraps C75 007 Sewing Pagtterns,
FabScraps C75 008 French Gray, FabScraps C75 004 French Stripe,
FabScraps C75 003 Gentle Leaves, FabScraps C75 002 Misty Floral
Stencils:
FabScraps DS35 005 Jungle Twine, Tim Holtz Dot Fade
Chipboard: FabScraps DC75 005 Relax & Unwind,
FabScraps DC75 008 Flower Filigree
Blooms: Teal Petaloo Blooms
Canvas Board: A4
Die-Cuts: Various Leaf and oval die-cuts
Pigment Ink: Brown, Blue, Teal, White, Tea Leaves and
Green Oasis
Distress Paint: Gathered Twigs
Distress Ink: Barn Door
Stamps: BoBunny Distressed Textures
Gesso
Double sided Tape
Spray bottle and water
3D Adhesive Foam
Pink Aquarelle Pencil
Liquid Pearls: Dark Chocolate
Pens: White Gel and Grey Fine liner
Foam Square or rounding mat
Rounding Tool
Photo: 13cm x 9cm
White Embossing Powder
Instructions:
1
. Cut an 18.5cm x 18.5cm square from the
Sewing Patterns patterned paper and an 18.5cm x 18.5cm French Gray patterned
paper.
2.
Cover the entire back surfaces of both
patterned paper pieces, with strips of double sided tape, ensuring that you
don’t leave any gaps. This prevents the paper bubbling up when you use gesso
and paints.
3.
Stick the Sewing Patterns square onto the
canvas, 3cm from the top and 0.5cm from the right hand edge.
4.
Stick the French Gray rectangle over the
Sewing Patterns paper, 9cm down from the top of the canvas and 1.5cm from the
left hand edge.
5.
Take the Jungle Twine stencil and stencil
gesso flowers on the top and bottom edges of the canvas. Use the Tim Holtz
stencil to randomly stencil gesso on the edges and around the canvas. Allow the gesso to dry completely. See
figure 1 below.
.
Using your spray bottle, spray liberal amounts of water over
your gesso areas. Add little drops
of Gathered Twigs distress paint onto these wet areas. Now spritz more water into these little
drops of paint, so that it starts to run.
Pick up your canvas and move the paint and water around, so that it runs
in and around your paper edges and in between the gesso stencilled area. Allow
this to dry completely. See figure
1 again.
7.
Do the same technique above, but use Barn
Door distress ink, just over the actual flower petals. Again, allow this to dry
completely.
8.
Randomly stamp with the BoBunny stamp and
teal pigment ink, around your canvas.
9.
Ink the edges of your canvas with the
brown pigment ink.
10. Fussy cut 12 complete flowers from the
Misty Floral patterned paper.
Fussy cut 4 different leaves from the Gentle Leaves patterned paper.
11. Fussy
cut 6 of the flowers further, by cutting 2 x smaller areas of the flowers, in
order to have 3 layers for 1 flower. Add colour to the edges with a pink
Aquarelle pencil and spritz with water to allow the colour to run. Allow these to dry. See Figure 2.
12. Use a foam
square or rounding mat and tool, to round these flowers. Once rounded add glue and layer up the
flowers, to make a complete flower.
Add drops of chocolate liquid pearls for the centres. See Figure 3.
13. Use Green Oasis pigment ink to colour
the fussy cut leaves. Again, use a foam square or rounding mat and tool, to
round and shape the leaves.
14. Cut an
oval die-cut, approx. 10cm in length, from the French Stripe paper. I used the
blue lacey side. Ink the edges
with blue pigment ink.
15. Cut
out the Relax & Unwind word from it’s frame, ensuring that you keep the
frame intact for use. Ink both the word and the frame with white pigment ink.
Cover with white embossing powder and use a heat gun to emboss the powder. Once
cooled, use the brown pigment ink to brown the edges.
16. Use
Tea Leaves pigment ink to colour the Flower Filigree chipboard. Cut through the
middle to have 2 similar halves.
17. Cut various
leaves with die-cut machine from the 2 green
cardstock. Add details with white
gel pen and grey pen.
18. Stick
down oval die-cut 1cm over the top of the French Gray rectangle and 0.5cm from
the left hand side of the rectangle.
19. Stick
down the chipboard frame approx. 2.5cm down from the top edge of the French
Gray rectangle and 3.5cm from the right hand side of the French Gray rectangle
edge.
20. Raise
the photo with 3D adhesive foam and layer over the chipboard frame, so that the
right hand side of the chipboard shows underneath the photo.
21. Adhere
the 2 halves of the Filigree Flower chipboard beneath the photo with glue.
22. Now
adhere the layered, fussy cut flowers and the teal flowers onto the chipboard
pieces, with glue, onto the flowers of the chipboard. Add die-cut leaves in between these blooms.
23. Alongside
the photo, adhere the fussy cut Gentle Leaves.
24. Create
a flower cluster on the top left hand corner of the photo, where the blue oval
die-cut is situated, with the fussy cut flower and teal Petaloo blooms.
