Paste ~ Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge

Hope you all had a great weekend and thank you so much for all the lovely comments that you left on my last Simon Says Stamp post, it's always so good to read them all and I appreciate every single word.

Today, is the start of a new challenge over on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge blog and this challenge is all about "PASTE". As you probably noticed, stencils are all the rage and there's an increasing variety of paste mediums to go along with that. So, we challenge you to out your paste or stencils and make some texture on your project and this is what I created, as always...I hope you love it!

I love the look of burlap and the texture that you get with it and decided to make my own "burlap look" canvas...so, to begin with, I took a small box canvas and applied Wendy Vecchi's amazing Embossing Paste through the Burlap Layering stencil from Tim Holtz. I really do love these stencils, they are just the right size to work with on so many different projects. I then painted the whole of the canvas with Frayed Burlap Distress Paint to get exactly the right colour I wanted, and needed.

Once the first layer of paint was dry, I then layered some more colours of Distress Paint over the top to achieve a shabby and distressed base layer of paint to my piece and zapped it with a heat tool to dry it superquick. The next part was to start adding colour to the centre of the canvas and I used Evergreen Bough and Antique Linen before applying some Tissue Tape to give that extra layer and some more interest to the background. And that's my canvas done!!

Now to decorate the canvas and for this I started with that wonderful quote and stamp from Wendy Vecchi. I took a piece of Manila card and painted the surface with the Evergreen Bough and Antique Linen Distress Paints before giving it a light wash of Picket Fence over the top. I then inked through the Dot Fade Layering Stencil before stamping the "I Am My Art" quote with black Archival Ink. I then distressed the edges with Walnut Stain Distress Ink and added the quote to my canvas.

I applied more Distress Paint onto the metal flowers that I had in my stash and allowed them to dry before adding a touch of Treasure Gold over the top. I arranged these onto my canvas, together with some Wooden Gears from Prima and buttons, again painted with Distress Paint.

To complete the front of my "arty canvas", I added a paint brush with vintage ribbon tied around the handle and a few trinkets attached to the ribbon with an Idea-Ology Wire Pin and attached some decorative pins to the flower arrangement.

The canvas was now complete but just needed a few finishing touches...so, I painted some wooden spools, again from my stash and attached these as feet to the bottom and finally, added a Curio Knob to the top.

...and here is the finished piece!

So, I really hope you loved my "arty box canvas" and for more great ideas and inspiration, then look no further than the blog to see all the wonderful creations from my very talented Design Team members. Every week, one lucky random participant has the chance to win a $50 gift voucher from Simon Says Stamp. Good luck....

Products used:

Wendy Vecchi Rubber Stamp ~ I Am My Art

Wendy Vecchi Embossing Paste

Tim Holtz Layering Stencil ~ Burlap and Dot Fade

Distress Inks ~ Walnut Stain

Distress Paint ~ Evergreen Bough, Picket Fence, Frayed Burlap, Brushed Corduroy and Antique Linen

Treasure Gold Classic Gilding Wax

Tim Holtz Tissue Tape Symphony

Idea-Ology ~ Mini Paper Clips, Wire Pins, Curio Knobs

Prima Flowers Gear Wooden Embellishments

Black Archival Ink

Manila Card

Crinkle Ribbon

Metal Flowers, pins, buttons, pearls and twine from my craft stash

Thank you so much for your visits today and I'll see you all very soon!!

Bye for now...love Emma xx

The Impossible Is Often The Untried...

Hello friends...

Hope you've all had a great week and looking forward to a good weekend...

I'm sure most of you all tuned into the Craftwork Cards launch shows over on Create and Craft on Wednesday and I just wanted to say a big congratulations to the wonderful and super talented Julie Hickey, who did an amazing job, as always demonstrating all the gorgeous new products that they had on the show. I can't wait to get my hands on some of the kits, I already have a million and one ideas buzzing around in my head...it's definitely going to be busy here at Chez Williams'...

...but before all those new ideas and trying to make space in the craft room for the new goodies, here's something I made earlier and I really hope you like it!!

This little box canvas is covered in Distress Paints before I piled on all the elements. I added Tim Holtz Tissue Tape around the edges of the canvas and used Sizzix/Tim Holtz die cuts, one of my favourite Tim Holtz quotes which I stamped on a mini canvas that I made myself, lots of Idea-ology, some Junkyard Findings from Finnabair and finally, some Petaloo flowers, which I covered with more Distress Paints.

For the little feet, I attached some bottle tops and applied Treasure Gold to highlight the raised areas of GrungePaste which I applied through a stencil. 

So, I hope you love what I've made today and thanks so much for your visit and for leaving all the lovely comments that you always write!!

Have a fab weekend and take care!

Bye for now...love Emma xxx