Bust-Your-Stash/Use-it-Or-Lose-It Blog Hop

My friend Cathie asked me to be apart of her Bust-Your Stash/Used-it-Or-Lose-It Bog Hop. So here I am my very fist blog hop.

I do not do a lot of layouts but I do canvases.

I did a canvas class in 2009 instructed by Sara at The Paperie. I really loved doing this class and the canvas I made was for Michelle .........................


I like this canvas because you can change the picture easily. The picture is held in place with a covered clothes pin.

I wanted to go home right away and do a canvas for each of my boys. So I bought the canvases and painted them .............................

I bought some Paper...........................

Crate, Adornit and Sassfrass paper and this is a far as I got.

So I dug around and found all the 'stuff' to finish the canvases.

Chris canvas ..........................................

I used the Crate and Adornit paper for Chris's Canvas. I cut the paper in strips and layered them on the canvas using Golden Regular Gel Medium. I then covered all the paper in gel medium tinted with burnt sienna paint. I also distressed some of the paper using Ranger's Distress Inks.

Added a picture ............................

The picture really pops against the distressed canvas.

Matt's Canvas .....................................................

I used the Sassafrass Monster for this canvas. I distressed the paper with the distress inks attached them with the reg gel medium. I added  the monster with pop dots and then misted the whole canvas with Tattered Angels Chalkboard Glimmer Mist bought at The Paperie

Added a picture............................

This canvas is similar to the way I did Michelle's but by distressing the paper with ink and misting it I updated it to 2013!

I am so happy with these canvases. I love that I can change the photos anytime with no trouble.

If you want to see more Bust-Your Stash/Used-it-Or-Lose-It Bog Hop check out these blogs:

Cathie Reed (www.cathiereed.blogspot.com)

Deanne Clarke-Saunders (http://littlebitopaper.blogspot.ca/2013/02/bash-your-stash.html)

Karen Young (http://sitscrapandrelax.wordpress.com/)

Krista Wells (http://confessionsofatwentysomethingartist.blogspot.ca/)

Liz Davies (http://piecesofmyeverydaylife.wordpress.com/)

Sara Case-Strickland (http://sarathings.com/)

The Paperie (http://thepaperie.wordpress.com/)

Why not dig around in your stash and find something you wanted to do and do it!!!

Take Care

Marg