Vicky's Scrapping Passion: #finnabair

Tuesday, June 27, 2023

CraftWell DT: Hello Sunshine Mixed Media Canvas

Hi,

This is Craftwell. Currently, I'm spending some time in Galveston, Tx and decided to make a mixed media canvas as décor for our vacation home.

I used the sassy shell bag kit by Tonic, and since I was limited by what I brought, it was an easy choice for this cute canvas:

Steps:

First, I added some crumbled aqua tissue paper using Clear Tar Gel, Golden to a plain canvas. Usually, I use ModPodge for this step, but the gel worked just fine. Then, I used a Finnabair stencil to add some blue ink, ColorBox/ Graphic45 to the dried tissue. In the mean time, I died cut the shell images I wanted to used using my SNAP and the specialty cardstock included in the kit.

Then, I did the fun part of spraying with gold sparkle spray the wooden mermaid clip, and some punched sand dollar pieces. I also added some Chrystal Drops accents to the wooden shells, which I also sprayed when the drops where dried.

Finally, I stamped the sentiment on watercolor paper using archival ink. I distressed the hand-tore edges with the sparkle spray using a brush.

I tore some leftover sand motive printed paper, and added the strips to the bottom of the canvas. When dried, I added some clear Chrystal drops accents to represent waves.

I added a net wrapping I had from some fruits, and used glossy accents glue and 3D zots to glue every piece to the canvas. Once assembled, I added randomly Chrystal Drops in blue and clear, and once the dried, I sprayed randomly with the gold sparkle spray, and added some sequins, Simon says stamps using clear gloss.

Some close-ups:

Here are some short videos showing more details:

Here is how the Mermaid clip works for adding a picture:

I am very happy with the final mixed media canvas and put it on a wall already.

Craftwell Tools:

SNAP die cut machine

Other Companies:

Clear Tar Gel, Golden

Aqua tissue paper

Watercolor paper, Hero Arts

Sand motive printed paper scraps, various companies

5x7 Doller Tree Canvas

Black Archival ink, CTMH

Bon Voyage Blue ink, ColorBox/ Graphic45

Sparkle Spray Cream Gold, Nuvo

Chrystal Drops Midnight Blue, Nuvo

Chrystal Drops Clear, Nuvo

Bindweed Wallpaper stencil, Finnabair

Sentiment Stamp, Paper Wings Productions

Sand dollar punch, Martha Stewart

Specialty sticky handmade paper

Sequins, Simon says stamps

Glossy Accents, Rangers

3D Zots

I hope you enjoy it this fun project and please follow Craftwell as well.

Stay cool this hot June

Vicky Tovar

Some Challenges:

http://welove2create.blogspot.com/2023/05/challenge-5-craft-card-making.html

https://just-add-ink.blogspot.com/2023/06/just-add-ink-658choose-two.html

Strips of paper sand motive printed paper scraps, and sequins

https://paperdragonflycreativechallenges.blogspot.com/2023/06/challenge-18-anything-goes-or-summer.html

https://heroarts.com/blogs/hero-arts-blog/stay-crafty-with-a-blog-named-hero-june-2023-challenge

https://do-allkreatives.blogspot.com/2023/06/78-create-scene.html

https://lostcoastportaltocreativity.blogspot.com/2023/06/challenge-169-use-some-words.html

https://creativecrafterschallenge.blogspot.com/2023/06/challenge-65.html

http://mmmchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2023/06/203-on-water.html

https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/mondaychallenge/?p=31781

vacation

https://stampsfun-creativity.blogspot.com/2023/06/435.html

http://craftycalendarchallenge.blogspot.com/2023/06/crafty-calendar-june-challenge.html

Monday, June 27, 2022

DT CraftWell: Using Recycled Negative Die Cuts in Finnabair Style

Hi,

This is my next post for Craftwell.
Today, I wanted to show you two different projects I made using the Tattered Lace Magazine free alphabet dies from 2015.

First, let me show you what I made with the positive alpha die cuts.

For this project, I used the positive alpha die cuts made from thicker kraft cardstock as embossing patter for the class project title:

I attached the letters to painters tape and made a sandwich using foil, the painters tape and a foam sheet. I run the whole sandwich through the SNAP and used the embossed words as title, hand embossing the numbers.

This went really nicely with the students' class project on the right side bellow:

Last year I participated in Art Venture 2021's class by Finnabair: Midnight Stories – Altered Book Cover.
Inspired by that class, I decided to make my second project recycling the negative cuts from the alphabet strip I had cut for the school Gala class project for my daughter's class as part of the background design, and I to recycle an iPad packaging as canvas instead of the original journal covers.

Here is Finnabair's class example: