I'm Back! :)

Hello!!!  I am so excited to be back on the Linnie Blooms Design Team. :)

Here's a little bit about me.  I have been crafting since 2003.  Although I mostly make scrapbook layouts,  I LOVE to play around with mixed media and textures and incorporating all of it onto my layouts. I was on the very first design team here at Linnie Blooms.  I stayed around a while and then as life happens, I got extremely busy and had to cut back on a few design teams.  But you couldn't keep me away from playing with CANVAS for long! :)  I am back and super excited to hopefully inspire you all with my creativity! 

Today, I would like to share with you a 8x10 canvas board that I created using Linnie Blooms stamps, Canvas Bird, Canvas Leave and Canvas Pennants.  I’m sorry I don’t have step by step photos.  Actually, I was just playing around with this piece and I ended up really liking it and wanted to share it with you all! :) 

To create the background, I started by treating the canvas with Gesso.  Then I used Gelatos with water to create the background color. Next, I took a honeycomb stencil and used a babywipe to remove the gelato color exposing the white Gesso.  I used the same technique with a Bingo stamp creating a white bingo image.  After sprinkling a few drops of Studio Calico mist sprays and letting the piece dry, I added the doily and covered it with a very thin coat of clear Gesso.  To finish up the background I used Linnie Blooms stitch stamps - Stitched Greetings and Stiched Sunshine -- LOVE THEM!!! 

You know what else I LOVE... the canvas bird!!!  I love it so much that you may see it on every project of mine!! lol  I love the versatility of the bird.... color it, stamp it, paint it, doodle on it... whatever you want.  In this case, I used Gelatos and a stamp for his body.  I used a Canvas Leave as the wing.  Isn’t he cute? :) 

  

I pretty much did the same with the pennants. I used Gelatoes and stamps.

Lastly, I layered the papers, bird, rosette ribbon, pennants and bling  pulling it all together by  adding an adorable photo of my Best Friend’s granddaughter! 

There you have it! I hope you like my project and I hope it inspires you to play around with these awesome Canvas Pieces.  You can find more information about these Canvas Pieces on the Linnie Blooms website. 

Happy Crafting! 

~Rochelle 

Card for him, card for her!

Hi there crafty friends! This is Jessica, www.jessicalibasci.wordpress.com, come scatter joy with me!
Today I have two cards to show you. The first card I want to share, I made for my wonderful husband who always supports my craft addiction. He is such an encourager.

For both of the cards I designed this week, I used Linnie Blooms canvas shapes. I love these canvas shapes. For my husbands card I used the arrow and for the next card I want to show you I used the canvas flowers.

I used Linnie blooms bloom stencil and mask to create the background flower.

For both the arrow and the flower I colored Linnie's canvas shapes with Gelatos. The Gelatos are one of my favorite ways to color the canvas shapes! The are fun and easy to use. 

My goal today was to provide you with two simple creations that would get your creative juices flowing. One for him, one for her. Have a blessed day, a blessed week and come visit me and let's scatter joy! www. jessicalibasci.wordpress.com

Believe Stitched 5x7 Mixed Stitch Journal

Hey Hey friends... It's me Scrappin Madge from Madge's Scrappin Lounge and today I am super excited to bring to you another fun Linnie Blooms Project! This project is a super fun one for me! It is a work in progress kind of a thing, so you will see a couple of pages at a time (different posts).  I first have to say that I love love this Mixed Stitch Journal! It is so versatile and it can be used for so many different things.
For me this journal is just my Mixed Media Art Journal! It is me expressing how I am feeling that day or things that are important to me! I used several different techniques throughout these first couple pages! Take a look and see if you can pick out a few.

The Cover on this book has a fun stamping technique and I used my Shimmer Mist from Heidi Swapp (you can purchase some from the Linnie Blooms store HERE).  I also used some fun Ribbon and a great crystal tied to the ribbon (you can purchase your ribbon HERE)
The Heart I used acrylic paint and painted it red allowing it to dry and then stamped on to it as well.  I used A Faber Castle Marker to write Believe.

On these two pages I used Gellatos, stamps, fabric fusion to fold circles into leaves, gold leaf rub and buff and some Spritz ink. Everything can be found in the Linnie Blooms Store except for the stamps and the the gold leaf rub and buff! Shop {HERE}.  I hope that you liked my fun project today!!! I highly recommend getting one of these fun journals, they are super fun to work with!!! Look for some yummy tutorials on how I created these fun pages!! I am will be featuring the next pages from this journal on my next Linnie Blooms Post!

Loves-Scrappin Madge

May Challenge - April Showers have brought us May Flowers! - Flowers the alternative way

Are you up for the May Challenge when the Designers have been challenged to use Linnie Bloom Canvas Flowers? I´m going to show you an alternative way of using Linnie Blooms product for creating your flowers. Here is my step-by-step on how to make it happen.

And this is my finished result. I painted the flowers with a bit of Heidi Swapp Color Shine to achieve the right effekt. I also reshaped the flowers a bit to give make them a bit wider. 

I really hope you enjoyed my mini class, and that I will see your creation uploaded to the May challenge!!

Be a Designer of Dreams

Hi! It's Candy Spiegel back with another design featuring products from Linnie Blooms.

Almost all of the products used this time are part of the Linnie Blooms collection.

I started with a square blank, along with the butterfly, sunflowers and flower canvas shapes. I coated each of them with Glimmer Mists.

I then used Ranger Archival Ink in black and Wendy Vecchi Studio 490 stamps to add pattern to the blank, butterfly and flower.

I then stacked the flowers together and attached with a large brad from my stash.

For the butterfly, I added wire antennae and used a black glaze pen for the body.

I used my Crop-A-Dile to punch holes in the top of the blank and tied a ribbon on as a hanger.

I glued the flower and butterfly onto the blank using Art Glitter Designer Dries Clear Adhesive. I stamped the saying, another Wendy Vecchi stamp, onto a piece of white paper and used Distress Ink to color it a soft green to match the piece. I used dimensional foam to adhere the saying to the front.

I thought it needed a bit more sparkle, so I added Clear Rock Candy Distress Stickles to the top flower, the butterfly and the saying.

And there you have it ... a sparkly, peaceful, encouraging little wall hanging.