Nature~Share The Beauty

Hi Friends! Abby here with ScrappinAbby and today I have a quick tag project to share with all of you using one of the fabulous feather canvas pieces from Linnie Blooms.

I wanted to add some texture to the canvas feather so I grabbed some Matte Medium and an old dress pattern...

I put a thin coat of the Matte Medium over the canvas feather...

To give it some added texture I scrunched the dress pattern paper when I placed it on top of the feather...

I used my craft knife to cut the paper away from the feather. You can use scissors or even tear it if you wish....

I used my distress tool to add some extra fraying and texture to the edge of the feather...

I wanted to play with some of my alcohol inks and sprays so the next few photos show you how I "painted" my feather once the dress pattern paper was dry....

The last photo above was taken while the feather was drying. I love how it turned out once it was all dry. The inks and sprays crept into the wrinkles on the dress pattern and soaked into the canvas feather and it looks so cool. 

This was my first time to play with the canvas feathers and I'm hooked. There are so many ways you can alter the canvas pieces and this is just one example of how you can use your inks and sprays and even some dress patterns to create textures and layers. You can find the feather canvas pieces in the Flutter Canvas Shapes at the Linnie Blooms store.

Thanks for stopping by the Linnie Blooms blog today and for checking out another ScrappinAbby project. 

Have a great day and Happy Crafting!!


 

Season for Tags

Happy Spring!! It's Kisha here today with my last post as a Linnie Blooms DT member. I've enjoyed months of sharing what I've created here with you all, and I hope I've created something that actually inspired you to create using Linnie Blooms canvas.

Today, I have a few tags I created with the spring season in mind.

Now, watch out till the end...funny how we start off with items to create with and end up using something else.  The tags you see here are bases that I cut using heavy weight card stock then begin to distress as desired.

Next, I added plenty of spray mist to my tag for added color.  Be sure to dry the color thoroughly before adding any other embellishments.

Here you see I added color to my butterfly then added some tinted molding paste using a stencil.

And here's my final product. I love how this tag turned out and it would make for a great end of year teachers gift.

 Here's where the canvas shape change happened. I ended up wanting to use a bird cage on my tag so that's how I ended up using my last canvas bird instead of the heart.  I love how I distressed this bird using my gelato's and music stamp.

And here is my final spring designed tag...shabby chic with a pop of coral.

Kisha

Home-made Tags!

Many of us crafters started making our home made holiday gifts weeks ago.  But as it gets closer we need to start thinking about how we wrap and send our gifts.  This is my least favorite thing to do

I enjoy giving gifts, making gifts, and even shopping for gifts.. but I am not a fan of wrapping them up.  But I do I like making the tags. 

Here is a tag I just made that is actually an ornament too.  I used the canvas mitten from Linnie Blooms.  I painted mine a Holiday Green and used a background Snowflake stamp from The Rubber Café.  The tag is actually really sturdy since I backed it with a padded felt and used 2 layers of paper. I added a few snowflakes, a mini tag and a greeting... tags really don't take that long to make.  The Stocking shape from Linnie Blooms would be cute on a tag too.  If you want to see more ways to use this cute mitten.. read a few of the previous posts and follow the rest of the week.. we have designers showing what they did with the mitten.

Have a great week! 
Kimberly Congdon Scrap It Girl

Is it a tag?

Or is it an ornament?

Put on your mittens...

 

Baby, it IS cold outside.  Time to dig out those mittens...inside and out!  We are all playing with the Linnie Blooms canvas mitten shapes this week and they are just screaming for fun embellishments! 

 

As I mentioned in a previous post, I really do not like shopping.  Gift wrapping is where my heart lies.  The present inside may not be that great, or it may be a gift card, but a pretty topper makes it special. 

 

For these tags (that I cut into 3 1/2"x 6" from old file folders), I painted the canvas mittens with acrylics and added dashes of Picket Fence Distress Stain, outlined in Rock Candy Stickles.  I put a layer of Aleene's Tacky Glue at the top and pressed in tiny clear white seed beads to make the cuff.  Into my bin of doo-dads, I found and added some felt snowflakes, metal snowflake brads, wood snowflakes (painted and Stickled), and pearls.  I love that these canvas shapes can hold up to anything added to them (they are quite heavy when you start adding paint and beads and Stickles--regular paper couldn't hold up to this kind of "beading"...hee hee).

I often add sayings and phrases inspired by song lyrics to my projects, and here I am doing it again!  I liked this dotty paper, but found it just a bit too bold for what I needed.  By adding a few layers of Picket Fence Distress Stain (and drying it with a heat gun between layers), I was able to tame the background and make it ready for running through the printer. 

 

So, while I continue to "pro-craftinate"...that is avoid putting up Christmas decorations (or maybe it is because we are remodeling our bathroom and I have a bathtub, toilet, double vanity, linen cabinet, etc. in my living room and there is no room for the tree)...I am reminded that I am wrapping these gifts in LOVE. 

 

After all, shouldn't the whole season be wrapped in LOVE?

~Kelly

www.kellystarsallthingscrafty.blogspot.com