How to create a Happy New Year Canvas

 

Today I want to show you how to make a wonderful canvas using four total types of ingredients.  

This is a fun project that requires patience for drying times, but creates a wonderful sparkly canvas, just in time for holiday celebrations!

Ingredients:

Pour Artsy Canvas

Stickles:  Pink, Lime Green and Crystal

Liquid Adhesive

Dew Drops: Safari Mini-Dew Drops and Easter Dew Drops

Directions:

1.  Tape canvas down, if desired to surface with washi tape.

2.  Work with each of three Stickles colors in turn.  I allowed them to dry after each color was applied.

First I did the pink and allowed it to dry completely.  I always end up dragging my wrist through wet glue.  So as I said previously, for me patience and letting each color dry was key to success!  Second up was lime green and finally, I used crystal on the glass.

3.  Using wet adhesive I adhered Dew Drops in pinks and greens to the canvas, once everything was well dried.  And again be patient until the liquid adhesive dries. 

Here you are a wonderfully creative canvas ready for decorating your home or gifting!

Happy crafting!

~ Victoria

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Picasso Meets the Green (Wo)Man Canvas.

 

Happy Saturday, everyone.  Today's project reminds me a little of the Green Man meets Picasso for a fun "mash up"  that is idea to frame or put on a tote for holiday giving!

Ingredients:

Daisy Face Creative Dew Drop Canvas

Acrylic Paint

Stabilo All Pencil in Green

Pitt Pen Black 0.5 micron

Matte Media

Metallic Dew Drops:  Metallic Pink, Metallic Teal and Metallic Silver from the classified mini dew drops

Stencil (floral themed)

Directions:

1.  Tape down canvas with stencil on top.

2.  Sponge light green paint over the stencil.

3.  Remove stencil from canvas and let dry completely.  Paint colors of features and flower using your choice of colors.

4.  Let dry.  At this point I go back over any black lines that I would like to have show with a Pitt Pen.  I  also went around the green background elements with a dark green Stabilo All pencil.  It writes easily over the acrylic paint and gave me a darker border around each of the green elements.

5.  Add Dew Drops with liquid adhesive of your choice and let dry thoroughly.

6.  There you have it a fun canvas.  I am going to sew this onto a tote bag and use it for holiday gift giving.  

Hope you enjoyed this fun project.  I'll see you back here in two weeks for another hostess gift canvas.

Take care and have a crafty week.

~ Victoria

Happy Koi Canvas

 

Happy Saturday and welcome to another fun project using a Creative Canvas and Dew Drops.

I saw the Happy Koi Canvas and really like it, as it can go a number of ways, as you can paint it or color it in a variety of ways.

Ingredients I used:

1. Creative Canvas:  Happy Koi

2. Paper Artsy Paints:  Blue Bayou, Venice Blue, Agave, Dessert Brush, Squid Ink

3.  Arteza Acrylic Paint:  Peach

4.  IZink Pearly:  Winter Sky

5.  Stickles:  Frozen and Crystal

6.  Ice Stickles:  Artic Ice

7.  Chip Brush and pallet knife.

Directions:

1. Apply Winter Sky Pearly with a pallet knife - let dry natually.

2.  Apply Ice Stickles, as desired

3.  Apply Frozen Stickles

4.  Apply matte finish paints with a chip brush to add texture over the dried Pearly.

5.  Paint fish as desired with Peach acrylic paint, as desired.

6.  Add crystal Stickles on the non painted fish surfaces.

7.  Add Dew Drops as accents on the water.  I used the blue from Hydrangea Dew Drops  Use liquid adhesive to keep them solidly on the Pearly background.

I do recommend you work on this canvas slowly and let everything dry between layers.  Lines can be touched up with a Pitt Pen in black.

I hope that you enjoy this canvas!  Have a crafty week.

~ Victoria

Make a Skyline themed canvas with four ingredients.

 

Welcome to October!  It's hard to believe we are already in October and the Winter Holidays are around the corner.  This month, for my first project, I decided to work with the Skyline Canvas from Dew Drops. 

Ingredients:

Brusho Watercolor Spritz in blue, purple and black
Creative Canvas from the Robin's Nest - Skyline Creative Canvas

Liquid Adhesive
Metallic Dew Drops

Directions:

1.  Prepare your canvas

2.  Spritz with watercolors, allowing each layer to dry before applying the next layer

3.  Add metallic dew drops in the sky in colors of your choice - I used silver

4.  Frame or use on another project!

Thanks for stopping by to see this quick project that would make an ideal gift for someone during this winter holiday season!

~ Victoria

Halloween Card: Cauldron and Cats - fun with circle punches

 

It's almost time for Halloween. I needed to make a quick card for my son, so I thought I'd show you step by step directions here!

Ingredients:

Card Base

Patterned paper cut to 4 x 5 1/4 inches

Patterned paper cut to 3 3/4 x 5 inches

Yellow Circle punched from card stock

Black Circle punched from card stock

Cats punched from black card stock

Liquid and dry adhesive

Dew Drops in black, orange and yellow

Instructions:

1.  Prepare all of your materials. Adhering smaller rectangle to larger rectangle using dry adhesive.

2.  Adhere yellow "Moon" circle to the front of your smaller card front, using liquid adhesive.

3.  Cut semi circle out of the black circle and save both pieces to form a cauldron.

4.  Adhere cauldron to the front of your smaller card front, using liquid adhesive.

5. Adhere cat or cats on top of your cauldron.

6.  Decorate the cauldron and sky with dew drops - I put black from the black, white and silver dew drop mix and neon orange mini dew drops on the cauldron, and yellow from the fall gem diamond dew drops diamonds in the sky for stars, I adhered them with liquid adhesive.

7.  Continue decorating until you are happy with you card.  Adhere your designed card topper to your card base using dry adhesive.

8.  You are all done with a simple and cute Halloween card!  

Hope you enjoy this simple project!  

~ Victoria

Blingy Sticker Card Topper.

 

 Happy Saturday!  Victoria here bringing you a way to alter stickers with Dew Drops to make wonderful personalized embellishments for your projects.

Are you like me?  I have tons of sticker books and things to cut out for collage.  Sometimes flat stickers aren't quite what I am looking for on a given day, so let me show you how to modify some of these stickers with Dew Drops and create layered embellishments for cards, scrapbook pages, and really anything where you want some textured layering.  So, let's get started!

Ingredients:

Sticker Book, I am using the Antiquarian Sticker Book published by Odd Dot, New York
Cardstock
Dew Drops of you choosing Neon Yellow mini dew drops and Sun Yellow Dew Drops
Liquid Adhesive and glue dots 

4 x 5 1/4 inch background patterned paper

3 3/4 x 5 inch kraft card stock

Stabilo All Pencil - Brown

Hello Fall Stamp

Brown Ink

Washi Tape Ticket

Directions:

Select the sticker/stickers you want to use.

Adhere them to a piece of card stock and cut around the stickers.

Working on section at a time adhere Dew Drops

Let dry between sections or use glue dots.

Continue covering as desired with Dew Drops

Construct multi layer ephemera piece using papers or other items of your choosing

Now you have a unique embellishment, ready to use as a card topper or for almost any paper art project you desire.

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to play along and post in our Facebook Group.  We love to see what you are doing with Dew Drops.

Have a great week ahead.  Stay crafty!

~ Victoria

Mixed Media Collage with Gelli Prints and specialty papers

 

Hope you all have had a great week!  Victoria here to show you how to create a mixed media art collage using papers, adhesive and Dew Drops.  This creates a totally frameable art work for your home using simple ingredients with Dew Drop embellishment (glacier diamonds, Hydrangea Dew Drops, and Neon Blue Mini Dew Drops)  For the Gelli Prints I used papers from the late 1800s.  Can you believe it repurposing paper that is over 100 years old?  The paint colors are from Paper Artsy - Seth Apter's newest Southwest Colors.  The specialty papers are from Dick Blick and handmade.

Let's get started!

Ingredients:

Gelli printed papers, specialty papers or even junk mail can be used

Dew Drops (pick the colors that you like from the shop!)

Dry and liquid adhesive

140 lb/300gsm water color paper

Directions:

Gather your materials together

Rip you papers into the appropriate sizes, I use a ruler for an edge to rip

Adhere your papers to a piece of water color paper and allow to dry

Adhere embellishments

Adhere Dew Drops

Frame as desired

Isn't this a simple, fun project?!?

~ Victoria