What You Make of it – Technique – Inspirational Canvas

Inspirational Canvas
By Francine Clouden

 

 

Supplies Needed
Canvas or
canvas board

Two colours
of Ranger Perfect Pearls (I used Sparkle
Yellow and Rust)

Ranger
Embossing ink

Ranger
clear embossing powder

Acrylic
stamps and fabric butterfly: Alpha Stamps

Two spray
bottles

Paper
towels

Rub-ons: 7
Gypsies

Sticker:
Daisy D’s

Trim: Prima
Marketing

 

Instructions

 

1. Ink your
stamp with embossing ink and randomly stamp image across the canvas.

 

I did my stamping in a trail across the canvas
because of the follow your bliss theme I was going for.

 

2. Cover
with embossing powder and tap off the excess. Because the canvas is textured
make sure to really tap it against your table so that it adheres only to the stamped
image.

 

3. Use heat
gun to melt embossing powder

 

 

 

 

4. Mix
lighter colour of Perfect Pearls with a little water in a spray bottle

 

 

And spray
over entire canvas.

 

Don’t worry
about any drips or drabbles, that will only add to the effect J

 

Let dry
entirely. If you’re impatient (like me!) you might want to use your heat gun to
speed this process up a bit.

 

5. Once dry mix second colour of Perfect Pearls
and spray over canvas, making sure to concentrate on the areas of the canvas
that are still white.

 

6. At this
point you can use a crumpled up piece of paper towel to dab into the wet “ink”. This gives a nice texture to the
pattern

 

 

 

7. You can choose to either stop at this point
or add another layer of colour.

Once the canvas is dry use a clean paper towel
or soft cloth to wipe colour off the embossed image

 

 

 

 

8. Now you
can decorate the canvas to suit your theme!

 

 

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A Special thanks to Francine Clouden  for sharing this wonderful tutorial. Please take a minute to visit her links for her designs and more!

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