Thursday, March 8, 2018

Progress on Canvas Journal



I finally got a bit of time to turn my attention back to my canvas journal.  It's been a busy week with middle school report cards, resource reports and assessments to be completed before we have our March Break.  I am tired, but welcome the opportunity to sit and play with my papers.






So, these two images were the first canvas pages I shared with you on Sunday.  I added a bit of bling to the back side of page one.  I need to resist the temptation to work on both side of the canvas on the same day.  There is just too much moisture!


This evening I looked through my little chocolate boxes of images and began working on laying out two more pages.  This time I also have sheets of sewing pattern papers to play with.  What fun. 


With this image I used my wet paint brush to push the ends of the sewing pattern paper  back from the edges of the focal image and made it more of a frame.  The pattern paper was very translucent and allowed sections of the images fade to the background and absorbed the distress ink wonderfully.  I was very happy with my first play.  

I was having so much fun I could not stop with just on page.......


For this pages I did not start with book pages but began layering on the pattern paper strips.  Then I chose a face from my stash, a short passage and some colored bits.  Then I layered more pattern paper to soften the edges of the images.  I LOVE IT!  

I was so excited to share this technique I haven't even waited until the page was dried and my stabilo put to work.  I am so looking forward to my next opportunity to come to my table and play with my new found paper.  









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