We Could Be Heroes

Hello and happy Sunday!

I want to share a tiny canvas that I made.

Tiny as in 4" x 4". 

It's so cool!

Check it:

I've been wanting to use these stamps for a while, but wasn't sure what to

make with them until I saw this month's

challenge at Viva Las Vegas Stamps.

I broke out some green paint and some funky stencils and had a ball!

After prepping the canvas with a coat of Gesso and drying, the lighter green paint was 

painted on. I stamped the sentiment onto tissue paper and adhered it with matt medium.Then that funky circle stencil was used with the darker green paint. Once that

dried I doodled around all the circles with a F-C PITT pen. I used my finger

to smudge Staz On Jet Black ink around the edges, then adhered the David Bowie image

again with matt medium.

Lastly, I used a stencil to add the hash marks with embossing paste.

And yes, all the sides are painted and stenciled also!

As I'm typing this, it just occurred to me that it was two years ago on

January 10th that we lost this amazing artist,

so I'm just going to leave this here:

Thanks for visiting, and I hope you have a great day!

I'd also like to enter this at:

Craft Stamper Make It Take It January challenge

Mixed Media Monthly Challenge #44 - Ring in the new (New craft stash: canvas and stencil)

 

Supplies:

Stamps: Viva Las Vegas Stamps - from plate #1482

Ink: Staz On - Jet Black

Substrate: Jo-Ann 4" x 4" canvas

Golden Gesso and Matt Medium

Deco Art Americana acrylic paint - Irish Moss, Kelly Green

Stencil Ease - kaleidoscope stencil

The Crafter's Workshop - xoxo stencil

tissue paper

Plaid - paint brushes

scrap of white card stock

Faber Castell - medium black Artist PITT pen

Dreamweaver - embossing paste

pallet knife

JUST US GIRLS #393 Trend Week

Hello crafty friends!

Sue is hosting Trend Week at

JUST US GIRLS,

and she wants you to create a background using any type of ink

you have, be that Distress Inks or Oxides, or any dye inks or sprays.

Here's my card:

 and the inside:

I haven't jumped onto the Distress Oxide bandwagon yet, as I still have plenty of

the Distress Inks to play with, and that's what I used, doing the smooshing technique.

After it was completely dry, I used my MISTI to stamp the image and sentiment multiple

times to get a dark coverage.* I still felt it needed something, so I tinted some crackle embossing

paste with dark chocolate acrylic paint and applied it to opposite corners. 

Once that dried, the panel was framed with dark brown cs and adhered 

to the card base with foam tape. 

Ready to play along? Of course you are! Simply link up at Just Us Girls

so we can admire it! If you need more ideas, please check out the amazing

creations that my teammates and our Guest Designer, Kathie Durgan

have made, and leave them some bloggy lovin!

Thanks for visiting!

Hugs,

* Pay no attention to the fact that I forgot to ground the image with a shadow. Ugh!

I'd like to enter this at the Mixed Media Monthly Challenge #36 - put a stamp on it

Supplies:

Stamps: Viva Las Vegas Stamps - hippo racer; Unity Stamps - sentiments

Ink: Ranger DI - Iced Spruce, Shabby Shutters, Brushed Corduroy, Gathered Twigs; 

Memento - Tuxedo Black

CS: Darice

Accessories: GC; Avery Elle - Pierced Rect. die; MISTI; Dreamweaver - Crackle Embossing

Paste; Deco Art - Americana Dark Chocolate Acrylic paint; water mister; paintbrush

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner; Scotch foam tape