COMPENDIUM OF CURIOSITIES CHALLENGE III ~ ALTERED BURLAP PANEL

Hello and welcome to my blog!  I hope that everyone in the Unites States had a Happy and safe 4th of July celebration yesterday! 

It's time for another Compendium of Curiosities Challenge III! 
Check out the challenge at the lovely Linda Ledbetter's site and see what the Curiosity Crew has created for you this week using Tim's technique from page 37 in your book.  Get your signed copy from Tim if you've not already done that HERE. This week ... burlap panels or canvases!  

I also want to thank everyone for their lovely comments each week!  You inspire me! I love these challenges so much! Tim's products and techniques are so fun and following his wonderful pictorials and step by steps in his book takes the fear out of trying something new!

This is the first time I had done a burlap canvas or panel and it won't be the last! It was so much fun and Tim's easy step by step instructions for creating the background on the canvas made this super simple to make.

Here is my altered 5x7 burlap canvas.  While I can't show you the steps in creating the background as that would give away Tim's techniques from the book, I will show you as much as possible about the finished result.

I began with my panel and Tim's Melange Tissue Wrap.

The transformation continues as I added other elements to my canvas.  I added a 1 1/2" circle punched vintage photograph of the little girl to Tim's clock from his Thrift Shop Ephemera Pack.  Then I added the Ideaology Sprocket Gears before gluing the clock in place. I added my own photo corners to the flower image.  It is also from Tim's Thrift Shop Ephemera Pack.

I colorized the butterfly's wings using Wild Honey Distress Ink and Tim's Detailer Water Brush.  Then I added a shadow effect around all of my elements using a black Stabilo Pencil and the water brush. Back ground colors include Victorian Velvet, Broken China, Mustard Seed and Picket Fence Distress Paint.

Here you can see more of the shading effect and the beginnings of this burlap piece. I added vintage lace across the top and bottom of the canvas using 1/4" Scor Tape.  

I also added Tim's metallic banner from his Industrious Stickers across the top. This is a sort of brushed nickel color originally.  I added some Aquamarine Treasure Gold Guilding Wax over it to change the color to a soft blueish tone.  Then I lightly added some Florentine Treasure Gold Guilding Wax just on the high areas of the design (using my finger). 

To the upper left is a beautiful ornate metal piece I found at this week's sponsor, The Funkie Junkie Boutique.  I love little metal pieces and you can find a treasure trove of unusual and detailed metal accent pieces here at great prices!  There are also beautiful laces of all shapes and sizes and lots of Tim products among other things. It's definitely worth shopping with Linda Coughlin at The Funkie Junkie Boutique and a huge thanks to Linda for being one of our sponsors!

Next it was time to give this canvas even more personality by adding the little vintage children. I found these online and sized them to fit my canvas. I thought this darling sitting infant was perfect to be my butterfly, delicately perched upon the vintage lace edging. I slightly altered the appearance of Tim's Ideaology Pen Nib from silver to a Florentine Gold using my Treasure Gold Guilding Wax and glued it into place using Glossy Accents.

The other little girl is looking up as she's released her butterfly.  Here you can see the little black lines of it's flight upward made from a .005 Micron Pemanent Black Pen. I added a little Ideaology crown to her head from Tim's Regal Adornmanets set.  After all, every princess needs a crown!  She is standing on one of Tim's Ideaology Drawer Pulls with "just simplify" created from Tim's Chit Chat added to the center.  

Here you see the released butterfly, stamped on Specialty Stamping Paper and colored with colored pencils, fluttering upwards through the sentiment that I've added to the canvas.  The butterfly was a smaller one from Tim's Classics #17 stamp set. He is glued onto the canvas along his body but the wings are free to move about. 

The sentiment, "it's the little things that make life big", was created from Tim's kraft paper Chit Chat words.  They are adhesive on the back but I added a touch of Glossy Accents, just to be safe. "Big" was not included in the Chit Chat words, so I added it using a Black Micron Permanent Ink Pen. Then I drew around each of the Chit Chat words with the Black Stabilo Pencil and created the shading with the Detailer Water Brush. 

These little canvases really are awesome to work with! I love the depth and the texture you get from them! This would be great hanging on a wall or perched on some sort of plate holder or just leaning against something else on a book shelf. They are great little accent pieces!

So there you have it ... my altered burlap canvas!  I hope you will join us at Compendium of Curiosities Challenge III and try this canvas. I think you will LOVE your results! Then post your art to our blog and you could be the winner of our $25.00 gift certificate from 

 

You can also win a wonderful prize package that has been donated by Tim and Mario themselves for our challenge! It's a huge assortment of Tim's products ... a really NICE prize!

So join us by posting your art, leaving a comment on each of the Curiosity Crew's blogs and share your art with so many others who love Tim's vintage style! I can't wait to see what you create!