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Fall Mixed Media Canvas with Pam Bray

September 21, 2020 1 Comment

Hi Creative Scrapbooking Fans! Pam here today sharing a fun Fall Mixed Media Canvas! If you are like me I am always excited to decorate for fall!!! Wild Whisper Fall & Halloween 12 x 12 Paper Pack, Rock Candy and Sensation Embossing Powder and chippies for Southern Ridge Trading Company and Boozy Bear will get your creative juices going. Begin by adhering a piece of the Fall & Halloween pattern papers to chipboard. Die cut out Sizzix Pumpkin Jack. Prepare 8″ x 8″ canvas with 2″ pieces of Fall & Halloween pattern paper using Xyron Creative Station with permanent adhesive or your favorite adhesive. Adhere prepared Pumpkin Jack to canvas front with hot glue. Add small twine bow to stem. Die cut a set of the Pumpkin Patch pumpkins from mat board. Apply Pumpkin and Peppermint Rock Candy to base of pumpkins and Spearmint to stem. Repeat with the Rock…

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Mixed Media Canvas with Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L and Pam Bray

October 27, 2019 2 Comments

Hi everyone! Pam here today sharing “A Thankful Heart” Mixed Media Canvas! I’m using ColorBox fabulous Dyestress Inks. Don’t worry…. If you don’t have ColorBox in your stash use some of your favorite inks to recreate your Thankful canvas. Apply ColorBox Dyestress Inchworm and Moss Inks to 10″ x 10″ canvas using ColorBox Stylus and Tips. Spritz with water; dry. Stamp background image using ColorBox Archival Mudslide Permanent ink to top of the prepared canvas. Lay ColorBox Swirldot Art Screen to top of prepared canvas; apply the paste to the top with a palette knife. Apply ColorBox Dyestress Salmon, Tomato, Inchworm and Moss Inks to top of 7 3/4″ x 7 3/4″ chipboard leaf using ColorBox Stylus and Tips. Stamp background image to prepared leaf using ColorBox Archival Fireberry Ink. Adhere prepared leaf to the top of prepared canvas. Spatter the prepared canvas with white paint. Stamp “With a Thankful…

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Coffee Mixed Media Canvas with Pam Bray

July 15, 2019 3 Comments

Hello everyone! Pam Bray here today on the Creative Scrapbooker Magazine Blog today celebrating Coffee!!! I love Coffee, the smell, the taste, cold or hot…it is the best! I am sharing a step out tutorial on how to create your very own coffee mixed media canvas. Don’t worry…if you aren’t a coffee lover, do tea or change the idea up completely but more than anything enjoy the technique. Begin by adhering a few pieces of corrugated paper to the top of a 5″ x 7″ canvas. Dry brush White Titanium, Burnt Sienna and Yellow Oxide to top making sure that each layer dries. Stamp beans from Emerald Creek Craft Supplies Fireside Stamp Set to the prepared canvas using black ink and bean stamp. Repeat with coffee rings from the Blends Stamp Set. Paint each set of the beans using ColorBox Nutmeg Blends Ink. Apply ink to craft sheet; mist with…

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ColorBox Blends 2 Ink – Cherish Canvas by Pam Bray

May 20, 2019 2 Comments

Hi, Pam Bray here today on the Creative Scrapbooker Magazine blog. Are you ready to Cherish every moment when you are able to create? I will be sharing how to create a simple mixed media canvas using Clearsnap ColorBox Blends 2 inks along with stamps from Blank Page Muse! Here are the basics steps. Apply Blends 2 Inks to an 8″ x 8″ canvas. Dry. Spatter Canvas with DecoArt Carbon Blank and Titanium White Paint. Dry. Lay Clearsnap ColorBox ZigZag Art Screen on top of prepared canvas; apply DecoArt Titanium White Paint using a stencil brush. Dry. Stamp background images using DecoArt Carbon Black Ink. Dry. Stamp flower image from Blank Page Muse Scribble and Scratch Stamp Set on white paper using Clearsnap ColorBox Clear Ink. Emboss flowers with Emerald Creek Craft Supplies Glacier White Embossing Powder. Ink over the top of prepared flowers using Clearsnap ColorBox Blends 2 Sunshine…

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Mixed Media Canvas with Pam Bray

February 18, 2019 3 Comments

Hi everyone! Pam Bray here today sharing my “Trust Your Heart” mixed media canvas.I am so excited to share that I will be blogging once a month for the Creative Scrapbook Magazine and what better way to share in the excitement but to share with you to always follow your heart! Step 1: Begin by inking a 5″ x 5″ flat panel canvas with Ranger Tim Holtz Wild Honey and Evergreen Brough Distress Ink. Lay Southern Ridge Trading Co. Bubble Wrap Stencil on prepared canvas; ink over top with Evergreen Brough Distress Ink using a blending tool. Step 2: Stamp Coffee Rings from Emerald Creek Craft Supplies The Blend Stamp Set with Ranger Black Archival ink. Step 3: Ink Southern Ridge Trading Co. chipboard pieces with Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink. Step 4: Apply Emerald Creek Craft Supplies to top of prepared chipboard pieces; heat set with embossing gun. Step 5: Apply…

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Playing with Prima Marketing and Nicole Wright

January 15, 2019 2 Comments

Mixed Media is all about trusting the process. It’s always messy in the middle and we have to let the creativity take over. Nicole here and I am sooooo excited to play with Prima. For this tutorial, I am using Finnabair. This is my first time exploring the textures, shimmer, and detail of these fabulous mediums and paints. I started by applying some torn book pages with 3D Gloss Gel Transparent making sure to apply an even coat over the paper. Add a layer with the Offset Dots Clear Stamp using permanent ink, Ranger ink Archival Jet Black. Add a layer of texture with Plaster Paste and mix in a little mint- green Patina Effect Paste to tint your Plaster Paste. Layer the 6×9 Passiflora Stencil and apply the Plaster Paste in an even layer. While the Plaster Paste was drying I cut “trust” with Sizzix XL Typo Lower die. Adhere…

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Painted Burlap and Blooms

July 3, 2018 1 Comment

Anyone up for a bright summery project today? Hello friends Nicole Wright here today sharing a detailed tutorial on this Painted Burlap Canvas. You may have seen this in the current issue of the magazine. I thought I would share a more detailed tutorial using Dylusions Paints. These bright acrylic paints add a bold look to any project. Apply Ranger’s Dylusions Paint directly to Super Stock Card Stock using a sponge covering your paper. I used a baby whip to smear around the Dylusions Paint. Blot some Tangerine Dream randomly. Then layer your stencil and using a sponge add Dylusions Paint Fresh Lime. Repeat this using random colours and stencils for your all your floral die cuts. Yes, you can ink on Burlap with Dylusions Paints. Add random colours of Dylusions Paints using a sponge. Layer any stencil you want and use your sponge to ink through your stencil. Move your…

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Faux Mini Canvases featuring Clearsnap

April 13, 2018 2 Comments

Hey there everyone! Cathie Allan here today sharing with you one of my articles from the Summer 2016 issue of Creative Scrapbooker Magazine – Creating Faux Mini-Canvases. I know you are going to LOVE IT! Faux Mini-Canvases by Cathie Allan In this issue, we are going to create “faux mini-canvases.” This special combination of background colours and the way we apply the ink layer after layer will totally have you thinking that we worked on canvas. In reality, we have simply worked on Creative Scrapbooker Super Stock—the cardstock of my inking and rubber stamping dreams. We are using pigment ink—the most light-fast stamping medium there is—so you will be able to enjoy them for a long, long time. I invite you to use the techniques we are stepping out for you today on your favourite craft project—a card, a scrapbook page, a knock-out art journal page or any crafting project…

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Dylusions Acrylic Paint Tutorial

March 19, 2018 3 Comments

Happy Monday everyone. Nicole Wright here today on the Creative Scrapbooker Magazine blog. Are you excited to make a mess. I know I am. This is my first time using Dylusions Paint on a canvas. I’m not trying to reinvent the wheel here, but maybe you have been thinking of trying these paints. Or perhaps you haven’t cracked one open in sometime. Follow along as I learn how to use these paints… and get ready to make a mess! I am stretching out with these new to me paints and I have to say… what have I been waiting for. I’ll admit I have been intimidated but wow these are amazing. I cut up some make up sponges to apply the paint to the canvas and get your fingers in there!Smearing around with your fingers helps blend and smooth the paint. These paints dry fairly quickly so it’s easy to…

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Donna Salazar with Gel Press and The Crafter’s Workshop

May 25, 2017 2 Comments

Hello everyone- Donna Salazar here! I’m so excited to be sharing a video tutorial with you today as a guest blogger for my friends at Creative Scrapbooker Magazine! In this tutorial I’m sharing the basics for using the Gel Press with stencils from The Crafter’s Workshop. I will also be showing you several different projects ideas for all the gorgeous prints that you can make on the Gel Press and finally I’m sharing a few of the steps that I took to create an 11×14 canvas. I hope you enjoy it!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UTP9IWhqRE Thanks for stopping by! Smooches ~D~ Too see more of Donna’s work visit her blog – Donna Salazar Designs SUBSCRIBE TODAY to our quarterly publication – delivered right to your door!