Winners and Pinworthies - June Challenge - Canvas

Hi everyone and welcome to our Winners and Pinworthies day here at A Vintage Journey!
We hope you enjoyed our Canvas challenge - we certainly had some fabulous entries. The Creative Guides always have a tough job selecting our favourites.

Before we share them with you, here's a fantastic project from one of our former winners.  Iris of Whimsy Touches was the Random Generator pick from the April challenge, The Magic of Three, and she's here today with some more inspiration for the current All Squared Up theme.  Over to you, Iris...

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Hello makers! I am so excited to be a Guest Designer at Vintage Journey and share my Assemblage piece, I call "X Marks the Spot". A little about me; I live in the Washington DC metro area and I am around Arts and Crafts Enthusiast. I have never met an art medium I did not like. I enjoy creating with clay, acrylic paint, sprays, metallic waxes, texture medium, paper, and metal. I like sculpting, creating mixed media canvasses, assemblage, altering bottles, making jewelry. My style ranges from modern, Shabby to Steampunk/Industrial.



I got excited about the the July "All Squared Up" theme; it invoked several ideas. But before starting, wanted to see if I had anything square in my stash, then go from there. I found a Thrift store picture frame I bought a long time ago. The frame has this square within squares type thing going; how perfect is that? Now the frame inspired ideas too. Being that the frame has this shapes within shapes, I wanted to keep going on the same concept. So I decided to add a different shape in the center square. Went ahead with a circle and inside the circle...mystery.





Painting the Frame

I started by priming the frame with Gesso. Then painted the first layer with Golden Quinachridone Nickel Azo Gold. I painted the top layer square with Golden Teal. I have also adhered texture paper.







Making the Corner Squares

I cut the corner squares out of chipboard. Inside the squares, again going with my shape within shape theme, I cut out circles with an Xacto knife and added mesh wire. I created faux rivets using Viva Pearl Paint and painted the squares black.

I added Golden Fiber paste on the outer edges of the corner squares and blended with the rest of the frame. Sorry forgot to take a pic of this process when I first started. I do have some images of a second layer after painting the first layer.

I adhered an image of a compass onto the back of a one inch glass cabochon using Diamond Glaze and added it to the frame.

I then painted the frame with Golden paints: Red Iron Oxide, Titanium White, Teal, Buff and Titanium White. There was some back and with blending the colors. I painted the square on the top layer using Buff, Titanium White and Red Iron Oxide.

The corner squares and edges were painted using Golden Red Iron Oxide (great for a rust color effect) and used DecoArt Media Fluid Payne's Gray around the edges.





Embellishments

The embellishments; chipboard gears, metal key, letters, watch parts, and washers were treated with iron metal paint and rusting oxidation solution by Modern Masters following their instructions.



The Center Square

I cut a square for the frame's backing out of chipboard. This is where the X will go. I decoupage it with map scrapbooking paper. I then sealed it with Matte Medium. Added light wash of Red Iron Oxide and Teal to give it a distressed vintage look. The Matte Medium keeps the paper from getting too soaked with paint.

I did not have a desired size stamp of an X. So I drew it using block letter format, then cut it out with an Xacto knife. I used the negative space as a stencil and inked in the X using a makeup sponge and red ink.

Next, adhere a 1.5 inch diameter glass cabochon over the X. I gently squeezing out a drop of Diamond Glaze; measuring about 6 mm. You can also use Ranger's Glossy Accent, both work equally well. I then placed the cabochon over the X, ensuring to push downward and firmly and ensuring to eliminate any bubbles. My ink was not archival, so I added another coat of Matte Medium to seal it before affixing the cabochon. I stamped the X because if you're going to use a cabochon; the surface needs to be even or else you get a lot of bubbles and are impossible to get out as long as the surface is uneven.















Putting it all Together

Last but not least, I glued the embellishments to the frame and fastened the backing to the frame.



Below are some close up images. Well, my journey ends here. I hope you enjoyed my X Marks the Spot Assemblage.









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Thanks so much, Iris.  What a fantastic project - definitely All Squared Up! - and so many great tips and techniques in your making-of details.

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So now, let's move on to today's winner drawn by the Random Generator.

Congratulations to:
Irit Shalom - No. 17

 Congratulations, Irit! This challenge was sponsored by Shimmerz Paints and your prize details will be with you shortly.

Our selected favourites become our three Pinworthies whose designs are pinned to our Pinterest board and you are invited to be a Guest Creative Guide. In no particular order, we have chosen:

No. 5 - Lys

No 6 - Jul D

No. 13 - Angela

Huge congratulations to you all. Your Pinworthy Badges will be on their way to you shortly and we hope you will join us here as guests for a forthcoming challenge.

Many thanks again to everyone who joined in this challenge. Our current challenge All Squared Up is currently underway - we look forward to seeing your entries. Check out the Creative Guide inspiration to see some of the diverse ways this theme has been interpreted.

Until next time - happy crafting!

Nikki

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New monthly challenge - Canvas

Hello everyone and welcome! Nikki here, hosting our new challenge at A Vintage Journey. 

Our theme this month is 'Canvas'. 

Let's work with canvas in our vintage; shabby; mixed media, art journalling, industrial, timeworn or steampunk style. It doesn't matter how as long as some canvas is a dominant feature of your project. Perhaps you may use a canvas in the traditional way or use the reverse to create a shadow box? Canvas boards are fabulous to work on or perhaps you have some canvas sheets which can be cut and adhered to another surface.

Once again we have a wonderful sponsor this month - Shimmerz Paints. 

The randomly chosen lucky winner will receive a $25 voucher to spend in their store.

The Creative Guides also pick their Top 3 who become our Pinworthies who have their work pinned in our PINTEREST gallery, this could be you next month.

So let's see how we have all interpreted this theme to provide a little inspiration:

Nikki

I recycled a previously used 6 x 6 inch canvas for this project and created a very textured surface using a number of mediums. Canvas was used for one of the additional layers too. Lots more details and pictures over at Addicted to Art today.

Jennie

I decided to use a primed canvas board for my project as I planned to use a number of layers of heavy embellishments and they needed a good strong support. This is one of my favourite quotes so I thought I would let it have centre stage and cram my embellishments in, around and under it! There are more details over on my blog so do join me if you would like to see how this canvas panel came together.

Deb

Nikki's theme of 'Canvas' provided the perfect opportunity for me to break out our very own Tracy Evans' new stamps for my Rise Above mixed media canvas!  Visions of soda bubbles and that wonderful phrase inspired my circular motif, I've some step out photos on my blog and hope you can pop by for my how to.

Tracy Evans

I opted for a canvas full of texture and layers giving a real tactile feel. I created this over several days, taking time to add layer over layer to give depth to my design. This was a fun piece to create and If you would like to see all the textural details, please pop by my BLOG.

Astrid

I created a masculine collaged canvas board, using old book pages, paints, Oxides, Distress Crayons and some of my favourite background stamps. If you want to see more, there is a recipe and a few step out photos on my blog

Julia

I recently attended my Goddaughter Eden's dance recital and I wanted to make her something special to remember the night - so I decorated this little 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" canvas with DOX inks and lots of Idea-ology pieces.   Please stop by my blog for more details on how I put this together for Eden!

S@ndy

 

Summer will soon be officially here and it's time to celebrate the season.  As a kid I always looked forward to a carefree time when school was out for awhile.  My small canvas was repurposed to bring back happy thoughts of those times.  Stop by my blog - My "Crafty" Life on the Internet - for more details.

Amanda

Despite having a large collection of canvases in a whole range of sizes amidst my art stash (I'm Amanda and I'm a canvas collector, hahaha) I decided not to disturb the "pack" so to speak and instead used canvas sheet on my Broken Maze, Hidden Gem creation. There are more details and some 'close ups' on my blog if you fancy stopping by.

Annie

For Nikki's fabulous challenge I decided to create a Steampunk project, using stencils, paints and stamps along with Idea-Ology pieces. For more details and close ups please visit my blog HERE 

Brenda

I love using 5 x 7 canvas boards and thought this would be the easiest way for me to do a project this month whilst I am still doing all my art sitting/laying on the sofa. I loved playing with doxides and even managed to die-cut the greenery myself. More photos and process steps are over on Bumblebees and Butterflies if you would like to see how this watery background came about.

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I hope we have inspired you and look forward to seeing your creations this month. You can link up your entries below for a chance of becoming a Pinworthy or to receive our sponsor's prize. As there are 5 Fridays this month - this challenge runs until Thursday July 6th.

(Do remember to check the Travelling Instructions to make sure you qualify for the prize draw and Pinworthy badges).

Happy crafting.

Nikki

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