Linnie Blooms Pallet Garden Flag

Greetings to all Linnie Blooms fans. This is my final sign off. I've had fun making and sharing creations and I wanted to say Thank You for checking out my creations.   

My final project is with the Linnie Blooms Garden flag. I turned it sideways to use and added some yellow sheer ribbon to hang the flag.  

I painted the entire canvas with gesso and then started painting with burnt umber paint, a light caramel color paint (it look like peanut butter) and a white paint. I was hoping these colors would assist in creating a pallet fence   

I used Linnie Blooms Bloom stencil to create my material flowers, I painted the burlap/canvas ribbon with a spring green paint. I use the Linnie Blooms canvas bird and attached felt and added an eye to bring him alive.

Of course my little guy is building ??? 

I added some fun texture under the paint, to build up my pallet fence

My sign off was a special Thank You

Art Anthology Paints & Mud, Ranger Texture Paste, Faber Castell  Whipped Spackle

Thanks for all the fun, keep creating and bye.

LOVE

TRISH 

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 

Birdie Thanks and Stars to Miss You With....

Karen N here from Craftily Yours.

For today's post, I first made a simple card using the bird and leaf shapes from the Linnie Blooms canvas shapes.  I sprayed the bird with Glimmer Mist in spicy mustard and daubered the leaf/wing with Tim Holtz distress paint in spun sugar mixed with Glimmer Mist in party pink to make it a little brighter.

SO easy.  The paper is from MME Indie Chic Saffron.  I distressed the edges with a little Tim Holtz distress ink in walnut and then ran the edges through my Distrezz-It-All.  The lace is from 3 Girl JAM.

The second card today is using the Linnie Bloom canvas stars from the shapes set that I painted and then spritz with some ink sprays.  My son is in the Army, so this card will be sent to him as a "miss you" kind of card.  :)

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  Before you go, be sure to check out:

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Craftily yours,

Karen

Friendship Mixed Media Tag

Hi Friends. It's Abby with ScrappinAbby and I'm back with another Linnie Blooms creation to share with all of you : )

I created a friendship tag using the bird canvas piece that I'm giving to a very good friend of mine....

I also have a video that shows you the project up close along with a tutorial on how I achieved the texture on the bird canvas piece...

I knew I wanted to use a stencil to create the background so I could create a base that I could build on....

For added texture...I used some Crackle Accents on the colored parts of the stenciling...here's a before photo...

And this is how it looked once it was dry...

I used a paintbrush and dipped it into my Lindy's spray so i could add more of the Tiffany Lou Blue to the edges of the canvas bird...

Once this was dry...I added some Creme Brulee Cream Lindy's spray and some gold paint by Smooch. This really added some extra texture and dimension to the canvas bird and I LOVE how it turned out...

Don't toss your scraps leftover from another project...I was able to use the last bit of the Linnie Blooms Burlap piece as additional texture and background for the tag :)

I am lovin how this tag turned out. You can create so many layers and textures with the canvas pieces from Linnie Blooms and they turn into a piece of art. 

Be sure to head to the Linnie Blooms Store and grab some of the canvas pieces & burlap so you can create your own piece or art. 

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

Happy Crafting : )









 

Creative Storage for Linnie Blooms Canvas Pieces

Hi Friends! Abby here with ScrappinAbby and I am really excited about my first official post as a new member of the Linnie Blooms Design Team!!!

I had so much fun playing with some of the canvas pieces and I came up with a creative & decorative way to not only store my pieces but to organize them as well. 

I recycled some vegetable cans and created these sweet containers that I decorated with some of the very same canvas pieces these will store. I also have a video to share with you that shows you the project up close along with the Linnie Bloom items I used....

 Let me share with you the fun techniques I used on the canvas pieces...

For the flower, I used a script background stamp to create some texture and visual interest. 

Next I used some sprays to give it some color and used my distress tool to fray the edges to give it a shabby chic look...

 I did the same technique for the leaf pieces but used a different background stamp...

 For the butterfly I stamped an actual butterfly image on the canvas piece then used some distress ink to give it some color....

 I wanted to have the illusion that the butterfly had just flown into my craft room and landed on the vine so I taped the wire I had left from when I cut my flowers to the backside of the butterfly so I could bend it as if it was in motion....

 For the bird I used some embossing powder for added texture and shimmer....

 Lastly, I used the same treatment on all the banner pieces that I attached to each altered can....

 Here are a few more photos of the completed altered cans....

 And here's how they look on my shabby chic vintage hutch....

Be sure to check out all of the fabulous Linnie Blooms Products available so you can use them in your crafting projects as well.

Thanks for stopping by the Linnie Blooms blog today. Be sure to visit my BLOG so you can see additional photos of the altered cans along with the full product list of all the supplies I used. 

Happy Crafting and I am SO happy to be a part of the Linnie Blooms Design Team and share some crafty & creative projects with all of you. 

Create with a song

It's been awhile since I have worked on my "Songs in My Heart" art journal.  There are lots of songs in my heart, but not a lot of time in my life.  But, I made some time for this song creation so that I could share this one with you as my last post on the Linnie Blooms Design Team.  I want to thank Linda Barutha for giving me the chance to play with her canvas shapes and for giving me inspiration to jump into mixed media art.

The song is "Ribbon in the Sky" (by Stevie Wonder) and it is one that right away popped into my head when I first got the idea for this song art journal.  Ribbons in a sky...

My first step was to use some water-downed inks to water color with a checkerboard stencil for the sky.  I added in some free-hand clouds using white gesso.

Next I added my rainbow ribbons that don't end in a pot of gold, but rather a shiny heart with rays shooting out.  Are you wondering what those rays are?  They are upside down birdies---Linnie Blooms shapes are so versatile!  I colored these shapes with more inks as watercolors and added some Stickles to the heart.

"This is  not a coincidence 

and far more than a lucky chance

but what it is

that was always meant

is a ribbon in the sky for our love

from now on it will be you and I

and our ribbon in the sky"

I sure had a blast playing with my Linnie Blooms shapes and I am certainly going to keep playing.  Here is just a little peak at all the FUN!

 ~Kelly