Canvas Remix

Wooden Frame 1 painted and then textured with canvas

Wooden frame complete with tree, fence and quote

Wooden Frame 2 painted and then covered with canvas pieces (remixed)

Wooden Frame 2 complete with Julie Nutting chipboard girl and quote

Black keepsake box covered with canvas – side view

Black keepsake box – side view 2

Keepsake box – top view

Keepsake box complete – latch view with rhinestones

Keepsake box complete – top view with Julie Nutting chipboard girl, stars, buttons, rhinestones and quote

First Canvas Remix item created – Shadow Box 1 with Scrabble gameboard

Shadowbox 2 – Looney Tunes Monopoly game board with Christmas theme including birdhouse

Shadowbox 3 – with album cover before additional embellishments

Shadowbox 3 – completed with movie theme

Alisa Burke has written a book titled “Canvas Remix” inspiring my most recent art. I had an unadorned canvas bag I ripped up to use just the canvas. Primed with gesso, I painted, stamped, stenciled and wrote on the canvas. Then I ripped it into strips and eventually cut it down into small pieces to adhere to shadow box frames, wooden boxes and picture frames. The rough texture is an interesting contrast to the bright colors and other additions on these pieces.

On one of the frames and on the black keepsake box, I painted and added a Julie Nutting chipboard girl now available from Leaky Shed Studio. The stars on the keepsake box were cut freehand from cardboard, painted white and covered with mica flakes. I hope you enjoy these as much as I enjoyed creating them, and thanks to Alisa for the inspiration!

More Creating while on Vacation from Work

I frequently refer to myself as a visual person, but this quote describes me also:

“I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.” – Anne Rice

Here are a couple of the coffee filter wreaths I created as a participant in the 2012 Artsy Ornament Workshop on ScarletLime.com – this project is the idea of Jamie Soucy. It is simple, yet lovely. The first was made with red ink polka dots on bleached coffee filters; after it was assembled I used a white frost Smooch mist on the entire wreath for added shine.

The second one took longer because I used Glimmer Mist and Smooch sprays to die the coffee filters and then they had to dry. Jamie uses Rite dye and then dries the filters in her clothes dryer, but I was worried about not being able to remove the color from inside the dryer, so I chose to use some of the numerous supply of Glimmer Mist sprays I have on hand. The colors I used were Pomegrante, Black Cherry, Popsicle, and Fully Purple. I added Turquoise, True Blue and Aqua Stickles glitter glue for accents. Next time, I will most likely try Jamie’s idea of dipping each folded coffee filter into Mod Podge and then glitter to get even glitter coverage, but I image there is a bit of drying time involved with that process, also, and more space than I actually have available!

The next two look like this:

This was was made with unbleached coffee filters.

I used cone shaped coffee filters for this final wreath in blues and greens.