Gelato Canvas and Wendy Vecchi products

Well it is official. Andiepants is becoming a southern bell!!! We will be moving to the lovely state of Louisiana very soon!

With all of our friends and family up here in Michigan it is very difficult to say goodbye, so one of the things that I like to do is to leave a little something with my friends and family as a token of my love. 

My friend from church, Delores, had a bit of spell and is currently in a rehabilitation facility re-learning how to use her arm. She misses her friends and her church very much. She is such an inspiration to me. Back in her hay-day she rode through the entire continental U.S. on the back of a Harley, all except for Alaska. As a hobby she paints these GORGEOUS china pieces and alters children's bouncy horses into carousel horses.

So for Delores I decided to make her a canvas. Something she could hang on her wall

This is actually a canvas I began a long time ago with the background stamping. It was just sitting in my cubby waiting for the right moment. So I doused it with water and used my gelatos, blending with my fingers.

I started with just blues and then decided it made a pretty sky and I wanted a scene of some sort.

Next I covered all the edges with Tea Dye distress ink. I used my finger to smudge in and over the white areas to give it an antique look.

Then I bust out my Wendy Vecchi crackle paste. This stuff ROCKS!!!

I used the crackle to make the "clouds" of my scene.

I forgot to take pictures of the next step. For this part I sprayed some water on my craft mat and added some drops from a Distress Stain re-inker in Antique linen. Then I used this wash to cover the entire canvas. This helped the gelatos to blend better and highlighted the cracks in my crackle clouds while giving the whole thing an antique appearance.

Then I bust out my stamp it stencil it by Wendy Vecchi. I used her archival inks to color it in  and went back over the base of the stem with gelatos to help highlight the grass. I ADORE how this turned out. I went with red in honor of Donna Downey. I love her:)

I then used gesso and water to create a water white paint and flicked the paint onto the bottom of the canvas to mimic flowers growing in the grass. 

Using my Tim Holtz layering stencils, I took a phrase from some Stampers Anonymous stamps and I added my title with a smudge stick and black gelato 

and voila...

My parting gift is complete. I  hope it inspires her as much and she has inspired me.

Til next time...

{{hugs}}

Andiepants

eKit - Kit of the month layouts

Howdy, Mary-Ann here with you today to share another layout or two, that I created using this months eKit - Kit of the Month.  I am super excited to say that one of the layouts also fits within the stenciling challenge - May ePlay Challenge sponsored by Erin!  Nothing like killing two birds with one stone:o)

Here is a reminder on what this months kit club looks like.  Remember folks, you don't have to be local to participate, we will mail it straight to you!

Lets get started with my first layout.  

It all started with a MME graph that I had on hand.  I wanted to replicate the circle graph idea but it was a tad too small.  I threw it in my copier and enlarged it a bit.

I cut the pie pieces and numbered them.

Attached them with temporary adhesive to the patterned paper included in the kit.  Also included in the kit was this Heidi Swapp arrow die cut that works perfectly as one of my graph pieces.  Setting this aside, I started on my cardstock base.

This is my first time ever using this Gel Medium and I am going to tell you right now, it will NOT  be my last.  I love how this dries and gives everything a clear texture.  For those of you "dirty" girls out there, I know this all seems elementary, but I do LOVE it and I am excited!

Once the AMAZING gel was dry, I used the negative to the graph to lightly draw where I wanted my circle to be so I wasn't wasting my time on places that would not show.  

Then I started adding some ink stenciling.

Here you can see the different layers of stenciling done with, Gel Medium, white paint and black ink.  I also created droplets with Dylusions and Tim Holtz Brushed Pewter paint.  I colored all of the Heidi Swapp die cuts with Dylusions to soften the white and to tie in my black and gray color scheme.

This is my completed layout.  In addition to the Kit Club product, I added my own labels and used my own inks.  Other than that, it is all included!

For my next layout, I used mostly the blacks and grays that were left in my monthly kit. 

The only additional items on this layout were the flair, tag, twine, stapler and inks.  I did color all of the Heidi Swapp dies with a gray Dylusions ink.  

Head over to the Classroom section and sign up for the club today.  

Products available in the eP store:

Kit of the Month Club with Mary Ann Maldonado - LOCAL	Kit of the Month Club with Mary Ann Maldonado - NON-LOCAL	Scotch Foam Mounting Tape	Dylusions Ink Spray - Slate Grey	Dylusions Ink Spray In White Linen
Dylusions Ink Spray - After Midnight	Adirondack Acrylic Paint Dabber - Snow Cap	October Afternoon Daily Flash Phrase Roller Stamp - Everyday Phrases	Memento - London Fog	Ranger Felt Applicator Tool
Glue Dots� Pop Up Clear 1/2" 72 pc Sheet	Dyan Reaveley′s Dylusions Ink Spray - Slate Grey	Tim Holtz Collection Stencils in Harlequin

There's No Place Like It ~ an altered canvas

 Hello ePers! It's Bonnie Irvine here to share another 4 x 4 x 1.5" altered canvas which I made to swap with a dear friend of mine. I started by painting the entire canvas with Golden's Titan Buff. Script paper from Authentique's Peaceful collection was cut into strips and inked on the lower edge with Pumice Stone Distress ink before being layered onto the canvas as house siding. Another patterned paper from the same collection was cut in a wider strip and adhered to the top to mark the upper story of the house. Stencilling was done across this layer with a Tim Holtz Measured Layering stencil and Pumice Stone.

The masonite windows were coloured with Black Big Brush pen and adhered over Mary Engelbreit images from a collection of designer paper I've had forever. More Authentique scraps were used to fill in behind the images. The door is actually a chipboard greeting label covered in Authentique paper which was stamped with Pumice Stone ink and a crackled stamp. A door plate, half pearls and another window were added to the door before it was adhered to the house. A metal oval saying "Cherish" was glued with Glossy Accents above the door. The metal butterfly was also from my stash and Glossy Accents did the trick with it as well.

 The top and bottom of the house had Pumice Stone Distress ink applied through  TCW's Mini Punchinella stencil. The center from an old scotch tape roll was used as a stamp to make the double rings. White gesso spread with my finger knocked the pattern back here and there for some variety.

 The sides show a continuation of the paper strips from the front as well as metal corner pieces from my stash. I think they came from the framing department of a big box store.The windows show the home owner's green thumb...lovely Mary Engelbreit plants in pots.

More Pumice Stone Distress ink was used to darken the edges of the canvas as well as stencil through Dylusions Letter Jumble stencil. The word HOME was added to the front in the form of letter stickers edged with black Big Brush pen and a little faux stitching completed the piece.

Thanks for visiting my home today...lol. I hope you find time to play a little and get inky-messy very soon.
Bonnie

Here are eP store links for some of the products used in this piece:

Authentique - Peaceful Paper Pack	Distress Ink Pad - Pumice Stone	Faber Castell - Big Brush Pen - Black	Liquitex Acrylic Gesso
Scor-Tape 3/8" - 27 yds. long (double sided)	Golden Titan Buff acrylic paint	Tim Holtz Layering Stencil - Measured	Dylusions Stencil 5x8" - Letter Jumble
Inkssesentials - Glossy Accents 2 oz.