Explore Canvas with Tracy Sagriff

Directions:

Use distress ink and a ripped piece of paper to create the fluffy cloud background.

Colour your focal image, globe, banner pieces and title using multiple layers of water colour paint.

Use the gel medium to adhere it to the canvas.

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

- Plain Banner

- World Globe

- Explore Fun Word

Other Supplies Used:

- Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink: Distress Ink - Broken China and Blue Lagoon

- Water paints

- Gel medium

- Bakers twine

- Santoro Gorjuss stamp

- Canvas

- Tracy

Shine Wall Hanging with Katelyn Grosart

Hey there Southern Ridge Trading Company fans, Katelyn here. Some of the chipboard pieces I've had waiting to be used on a project are a little bigger than what would fit nicely on a card, so today, I've created a feminine wall hanging featuring one of the larger frames along with a variety of other chipboard pieces. Read below and learn how I transformed my chipboard pieces for my Shine Wall Hanging.

To start, you'll need to take the Circle Lace Frame. Apply two coats of Vintage Lace Paint from Paper Artsy to 3/4" around the frame. Set the frame aside to dry. Once the front side of the frame has dried, paint the entire backside of the frame with two coats of Vintage Lace Paint. Let the frame dry. Once the frame has dried, using a blending tool and Black Soot Distress Ink, ink the edges of the frame.

While you still have the Vintage Lace paint out, paint three floral banners with two coats of paint. Let the banners dry. After the banners have dried, using a blending tool and Black Soot Distress Ink, ink the edges of the banners.

Next you'll need the Shine Word. Apply two coats of Victorian Velvet Distress Paint to the word. Once the word has dried, apply a coat of Emboss It Ink to the entire word. With the word covered in ink, sprinkle Fine Clear Gloss Embossing Powder over the entire word. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with your heat tool. With a blending tool and Black Soot Distress Ink, ink the edges of the word.

While you still have the Victorian Velvet Distress Paint out, apply two coats of paint to three plain banners. Once the banners have dried, apply a coat of Emboss It Ink to the entire word. With the banners covered in ink, sprinkle Fine Clear Gloss Embossing Powder over all three banners. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with your heat tool. With a blending tool and Black Soot Distress Ink, ink the edges of the banners.

The last chipboard piece that needs to be painted is the floral frame. Apply two coats of Carbon Black paint to the frame. Set the frame aside to dry.

With all the the chipboard pieces decorated, next you'll need to take a bowl that fits the inside the Circle Lace Frame. Once you have the right size bowl, trace around the bowl onto a piece of patterned paper. Cut out your circle and then edge distress the edges. After the edges have distressed, using a blending tool and Black Soot Distress Ink, ink the edges of the circle.

Die cut a 3" circle out of patterned paper. After the circle has been die cut, use an edge distressor and distress the edges of the circle. Once the edges have been distressed, using a blending tool and Black Soot Distress Ink, ink the edges of the circle. Die cut your picture using a  2 1/2" circle. 

When starting to adhere your elements onto the Circle Lace Frame, start by adhering the large patterned paper circle to the chipboard piece. Once that patterned paper circle has been adhered, then you can adhere the black floral frame as well as the 3" circle and your 2 1/2" photo circle. After the circles have been adhered, adhere your shine word slightly overtop of your photo.

For the banners in the top right hand corner, adhere the floral banners onto the regular banners. After the banners have been adhered together, string them onto a piece of black twine and adhere them in the top right corner. To finish the banners, adhere a cream or black rose to each banner.

In both the top left and bottom right hand corner of the frame, add a variety of cream, black and pink roses in varying 10, 15 and 20mm sizes.

To finish your wall hanging, add a piece of cream ribbon to the back of the frame which will act as the hanger part at the top of the wall hanging.

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

- Circle Lace Frame

- Small Floral Frame

- Floral Banners

- Plain Banners

- Shine Word

- 10mm Roses: Cream and Pink

- 15mm Roses: Black

- 20mm Roses: Cream

Other Supplies Used:

- Emerald Creek Craft Supplies: Fine Clear Gloss Embossing Powder

- Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink: Distress Ink - Black Soot and Distress Paint - Victorian Velvet

- Ranger Ink: Emboss It Ink - Clear (dabber)

- Tim Holtz Ideaology: Found Relatives

- DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics: Carbon Black

- Paper Artsy: Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylics - Vintage Lace

- Tombow: Aqua Mono Liquid Glue

- Prima Marketing: Wild & Free - Let's Be Adventurers and Love Clippings - All of Me Loves All of You

- Elizabeth Craft Designs: Stitched Circles

- Hug N' Snug Seam Binding Ribbon: Cream

- Misc: Heat Tool and Ribbon

Until Next Time!

-Katelyn 

Winter Canvas

I'am back on the blog today to feature another "Winter" inspired project . There is still six days left to enter your "winter" piece into our Monthly Challenge. For all of the details, head here. For my post today,  I created a winter canvas.

Supplies Used: Ranger/Tim Holtz - Ground Expresso Distress Ink, Distress Crackle Paint - Clear Rock Candy. Ranger/Dylusions - Dylusions Paint: White Linen. Sizzix/Tim Holtz - Holiday Words: Block. Tim Holtz Ideaology - 6x8 Burlap Panel. Emerald Creek - Iridescent Shimmer  & Soft Fallen Snow Embossing Powder. Viva Decor - Inka Gold: Old Gold & Brown Gold. Tsukineko/Imagine Crafts - VersaMark. Bo Bunny Sleigh Ride - Blizzard, Logs & Tradition. Bazzill Cardstock - Java. May Arts Twine - White.

To begin, I prepped the background of my burlap panel, using a blending tool and inking 1/2" in around all the edges of the panel. Once the edges were inked, I sprinkled Soft Fallen Snow Embossing Powder around all four edges and embossed them. 

Once the background of the panel was finished, I set it aside and started working on the Cedar Trees. I covered all three cedar trees with Brown Gold Inka Gold. Once the Inka Gold was dry, I covered each cedar tree with a layer of Clear Rock Candy Distress Crackle paint and set them aside to dry.

Once the cedar trees were drying, I moved on to the Plain Banners. I covered the three plain banners with Old Gold Inka Gold. Once all three banners were covered, I applied a layer Clear Rock Candy Distress Crackle Paint over top and set them aside to dry.

I wanted to add something to the plain banners, so I pulled out my stash of Mini Wood Snowflakes. Before embossing the snowflakes, I painted them with a layer of Dylusions Paint in White Linen. Once the paint was dry, I covered them in a layer of VersaMark and then sprinkled Soft Fallen Snow Embossing Powder overtop of them and embossed them. 

For the finishing touches on my winter canvas, I added two layers of patterned paper from Bo Bunny's Sleigh Ridge Collection. I also wanted to add the word "winter" somewhere on my canvas, so I cut it out using the Tim Holtz/Sizzix - Holiday Words: Block die, attaching it to the top of my photo. For the last of the finishing touches, I added some Iridescent Shimmer Embossing Powder to parts of the edges of the patterned paper. 

Here is the finish Winter canvas with all of the elements put together.

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my winter canvas. We can't wait to see your project or projects for the Monthly Challenge. Make sure to check back regularly to see what the rest of the design team members are creating.

Until Next Time!

-Katelyn