Buildings

Buildings

Hi There!!

Here's Hazel Harmer with 

a gorgeous Canvas, set to

make us all feel happy and

smiley

"My canvas is nothing like what it was going to be like, 

it was going to be a snowy winters night - 

all shimmery and glittery, 

but our boiler packed up in the

 middle of November and wasn't fixed 

until December 23rd. 

The first week we had no hot water either and because 

we'd been so cold I decided my canvas had to be summery!

 used the Carabelle Studio house stamp.

 stamped the houses and coloured them with felt tips.

I used a Memory Box stencil and modelling paste 

to stencil the sun in the corner of the canvas.

I gave the canvas a coat of gesso and 

when it had dried I used a sponge to colour 

the sky and greenery with Fresco Finish paint

The sun was coloured with yellow and orange acrylic paint.

These are some of the embellishments I used, 

I coloured some of the dried flowers green and left some white, 

I die cut some leaves but didn't use them. 

I cut the strip of paper because I liked the scalloped edge 

and thought it would make a good fence.

I glued the dried flowers to the canvas and 

attached the houses with a dimentional double sided tape 

then I drew pathways from the doors. 

I used a white pen to turn the strip of paper into a fence. 

The fences are attached to the canvas with a thicker 

double sided tape than I used for the houses. 

The birds were stamped with Stampers Anonymous stamp, 

I had to go over the birds with a black marker as they didn't 

stamp very well on the canvas.

I added a heart shaped balloon and wrote "Home is where the heart is".

Because I used a deep canvas it meant that 

I could carry my design round the edges."

Supplies:

A deep 6 inch square canvas.
Carabelle Studio stamp.
Black Archival ink.
Felt tip pens.
Memory Box stencil
Modelling paste.
Fresco Finish paint.
Stampers Anonymous bird stamp.
Black marker.
White pen.

Thank you Hazel - I'm so glad you didn't

go the winter night route - maybe you 

could give us that one for the next heatwave?

A really super, smiley, proper like canvas

for a winter's day - what a brilliant idea!

'till tomorrow

Mickie xx