Sunday, February 16, 2014

Challenge #4 at My Artistic Adventures

Good Morning everyone!

Are you ready for a Christmas challenge?
Over at My Artistic Adventures we have one for you!
The theme is - The Second Day of Christmas!

We would like to see two of something in this challenge...
two buttons, two bows, two flowers, etc...
You must use at least one element from
the rest is up to you!

(If you use the coupon code CHALLENGE 10 at Heather's Etsy and you will recieve 10% off of a $5 purchase)

Make any project using the theme...
card, atc, tag, box, layout...
(sorry no digital entries please)
whatever tangible project you desire.

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So.....

 What does the Second Day of Christmas make you think?

How does the Second Day of Christmas inspire you?

I can't wait to see!

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On the Second Day of Christmas my true love gave to me a set of mini canvas's to play with!

I love to make new ornaments for my Christmas tree every year and these canvas's are so small and cute I thought they'd work great as ornaments! 

The collage sets I used is the
Victorian Vintage Christmas Angels
&
the Shabby Vintage Victorian Christmas Tag


I started with gesso on the canvas's...once dried I added mod podge.
On top of the mod podge I layed the angel tags upside down, rubbing them into the mod podge with my fingers.
When they were set I used a wet wipe and started wiping the paper off leaving the image on the canvas.
(If you are using an image with writing on it you may want to flip it so it is right side when you are done...I didn't do that so the writing on the little blue images book was backward but since I wanted the Merry Christmas text box there it worked out fine for me)

I used broken china & scattered straw distress stains on the edges of the canvas's.


There is goldenrod glitter on the yellow canvas and dreams glitter on the blue.
(glitters are from Art Glitter)


Below you can see the roses and ribbon that I added to the tops.


The gold ribbon was wrapped around the whole canvas & tied on the bottom 
and the silver ribbon was just added to the top.


Now I just have to wait for Christmas to come around so I can hang these on my tree!

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I hope you will join us in this challenge!
Think about how much easier Christmas will be if we could get some of the work done now!
I don't know about you but I'm always in a last minute rush before Christmas!

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As I said above,
Heather is offering a discount at her Etsy...
use the coupon code CHALLENGE 10
and
receive 10% off on a $5 purchase

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I linked this up to
Craft Hoarders Anonymous - What's your Style?

8 comments:

Sandi McLean said...

These are so sweet Carol! I have a stack of mini canvas that have been ignored ... but now I am inspired! Hugs, Sandi

Gloria Stengel said...

This is so adorable! Thanks for joining us at Craft Hoarders Anonymous for our very first challenge!

Kathy/NorthCarolina said...

These are darling! Thanks for playing along in the very first Craft Hoarders Anonymous Challenge!

Jo said...

what a fabulous idea ... these turned out wonderfully!

Jan Marie said...

What precious little ornaments! Beautiful work!! Thanks for sharing your style with us at Craft Hoarders Anonymous!

creative lady said...

Very nice, thanks for stopping in to play with Craft Hoarders Anonymous!

Heather said...

These are adorable Carol!! Just darling!! What a great idea to do tiny canvas ornies...you know I love ornies!! I have never seen square tiny canvases...only atc ones...I will keep my eye out!!
Thank you for your beautiful work!!
Hugs
BOLB

Sassy Raggedy said...

Love them Carol...Hugs, joann