My first Mixed Media Canvas

Hello again so here's my Second Project for That Craft Place

Theme is No Cards

At one time i use to dread any challenges where it wasn't make a card!! But now i really love to do them as you can just sit and play & get messy with glue, texture paste, inks & paints etc.

So this is the first time i have ever done a Mixed Media Canvas & i thoroughly enjoyed it and i hope you like it too!!

Firstly i primed the Canvas with Gesso and left to dry.

Next i started sticking down tissue paper with a multi surface primer from That Craft Place Ltd as it acts like a glue. Very messy this part but so good creating all those creases and folds.

Once dry paint over with Gesso again.

Once the Gesso is dry i applied some texture paste through stencils. Next start placing diecuts & other things onto the canvas and once your happy with it glue them down again with the multi surface primer.

I forgot to take a photo of it before i painted another coat of Gesso all over it to seal it ready for painting. (sorry)

  

Now it's the Fun & Messy part!!! 

The next photo is just me painting on watered down perfect pearls & already it is coming to life. 

Next i used Dylusions Sprays & Deco Art Sprays.

I am showing this next photo because all i did was add a new spray i bought this week from Docrafts Artiste Spritzing Ink. I couldn't believe how good that gold is and how it changed the look of it all!!!

Lastly i added some metal embellishments what i didn't want lot's of colour on and the MDF light bulb. I Dry brushed the die cuts and embellishments to make them stand out more and added some Inka Gold in various colours.

Here it is all finished!! 

and a couple of close ups to see the texture better.

Some of the DT asked me how i made the flower at the top left but i hadn't thought of it as a flower until they said. What it is is a fan from an old computer what my hubby was taking apart and i pinched it!! lol

The pipes at the sides are just Paper Straws with seed beads and micro beads what have been mixed together in a pot with the multi surface primer and applied to the straws.

All Dylusions Sprays, Docraft Spritzer, Ink Golds, Multi Surface Primer, Gesso, Dies, MDF Cogs & MDF Light Bulb are from That Craft Place Ltd

Please pop over to That Craft Place Blog to see the rest of the makes by the DT.

Hope i haven't bored you with all the photo's as i wanted to try and show you how i made it. 

I would like to enter the Following Challenges :-

Altered Eclectics - Anything Goes (ends 30th April)
Noor! Design UK - Anything Goes (ends 30th April) *
Rhedd's Creative Spirit - Anything Goes (ends 30th April) *
Brown Sugar - Anything Goes (ends 30th April) *
Crafts 4 Eternity - Anything Goes (ends 30th April) Made Top 3
Crafty Catz - Things with Wings - i have die cut steampunk wings (ends 1st May) *
Simply Papercraft - Anything Goes or Lots of Layers (ends 7th May)
C.R.A.F.T. - Make your own Embellishments (ends 29th April) *
Inspiration Destination - Anything Goes (ends 29th April) Made DT Favourites