Monday, 25 February 2013

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:

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

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

Take Care
Marg

17 comments:

  1. Wow! That was a blast from the past! :) Love the new canvases and how you updated them - awesome!

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    1. I so enjoyed that class and was wanting to do the other canvases.

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  2. Awesome canvases marg!

    Lori

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  3. I have been looking for a way to put up some photos...I think I will give this a try!

    I like that I could make a layout and change to the actual picture as wanted! I think I want seasonal canvases to showcase a special event that goes along!

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  4. How did I miss this class? love these canvases! thanks for hopping along, Marg

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    1. It was in 2009 . I had fun and it made me do something out of my comfort zone. Thanks for asking

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  5. They are wonderful canvases Marg... I especially like the cute way those legs hang down from under the photo, intentional or not it so cute! Great job!

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    1. That wasn't intentional but a happy surprise

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  6. Love them Marg! I especially like that you can change out you photos.

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    1. You didn't do this class? You would have liked it not that messy!

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  7. Great idea! Those look awesome.

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  8. What a great idea! Love how you can change the pictures easily! :)

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  9. I really enjoy these canvases!

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  10. Great to see you finish your project!! Hope I get going on that as well.. ha!! ;)

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  11. It only took me about 4 years but so glad I finished1

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