Welcome 2014! To be honest I am not much into New Year's Resolutions, however, thinking about resolutions led me to a project I have been wanting to create for a while: a House Rules canvas. It's a gentle reminder to me, and to each member of my family, to be the best person possible all year round!
I started with a search of the internet and found all kinds of signs with "house rules" on them and printed my favorite rules out onto tissue paper with a different font for each line.
The next step is to create the canvas background. I wrinkled up some tissue paper, smoothed it out and adhered it to the canvas with Mod Podge. I added color with semi-transparent acrylic paint in 2 shades of blue. Then I used Mod Podge to adhere the various "rules" onto the canvas.
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| NOTE: Tear the edges of the tissue paper as it will blend more easily into the background. |
Using a variety of Susan's stamps, I stamped onto tissue paper with Black Archival Ink and then Mod Podged them onto the canvas as well. I used them kind of as "place holders" so I knew where to come back and add dimensional elements.
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| Notice the great texture the canvas has from the wrinkled tissue paper. |
I painted over the cloud from the
Fly Away stamp set with white paint then added a second layer of the cloud stamped tissue paper because I didn't want the blue background to show through. I also really love the stitched edge detail!
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| Here's a look at the "cloud sandwich" with the white acrylic paint between the 2 layers of stamped tissue. |
I stamped the sun onto paper from
Fancy Pants Design's Collecting Moments collection and added it on top of the tissue paper sun.
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| You can see the string suspending the sun - it is from the Mod Podged tissue sun. |
The kite from the
Fly Away stamp set was paper pieced and highlighted with white acrylic paint. The little bows on the kite's tail were also painted with white acrylic.
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| Did you notice that the kite (and the cloud) are reversed images? I wanted the tail of the kite to go the opposite direction. It is easy to do when you stamp on tissue paper! |
The house was paper pieced using Susan's
Little Haven stamp and paper from the
Collecting Moments collection. I especially liked using the
Fancy Pants Design's corrugated paper for the roof!
The little girl is from Susan's
Grandma's Needlepoint stamp set. The chipboard fence, which I also painted with white acrylic, is from
Want2Scrap.
Thanks for stopping by and I hope you find some time to play today!
Susie Bentz
Susan K. Weckesser Design Team Member
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