My Word!

Over at Big Art Adventure this time round the theme is

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A WORD on a SIGN

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Go check it out if your intrigued!

{it's easier than me trying to explain the title lol}

I absolutely loved this idea and set straight to work creating my piece.

I choose a mini canvas i received for Xmas, as i had it sat on display all bare just begging to be altered.

And my word..

Believe.

{As in, believing in myself that little bit more.}

And here it is

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This was actually inspired by an article in Feb's issue of Craft Stamper.

I wanted to have a go with Gesso & Bubble wrap, but to be honest that didn't go well at all and nearly ruined my piece! But in the spirit of the project i carried on believing in myself that i could put it right.

I started off by painting my canvas lightly with Denim & Hazelnut Dabbers

I then stamped a couple of Ticket stamps {Invoke Art} I tried using a normal ink pad but the results didn't come out quite as good as I'd hoped so i tried my Espresso Dabber which worked better, but where i had already stamped the first ticket, i patched it up by stamping another ticket onto kitchen towel, and then tore it out and stuck it over the original, this actually gave a nice texture to the piece.

Next came the disaster of the Gesso! I did it how it says in the mag to add some gesso to a craft sheet, then roller your brayer over it and roller it onto the bubble wrap etc etc etc, but all i ended up with was a horrible white mess in the corner... for a minute i panicked but then a light bulb appeared above my head {as they do!} and i applied some denim dabber to the bubble wrap and placed it over where the gesso had failed. Hurray! it looked 10 times better {sort of} and i was happy so i carried on.

I stamped one of my fav images {Paper Artsy - Dragonfly lady -i call her} onto a page of an old book and cut her out, but she looked somewhat flat, so i twisted a piece of wire to create a tail and stamped the image again but this time on acetate with stazon and cut out just the wings.

I glued the wings with silicone and then placed the wire tail on top stuck again with silicon {so i could have more time to position correctly} and once that was dry i added just little of my new vintage photo distress stickles. I actually like these so much that i also added some to the corners of the canvas, also using the faded jeans colour.

To finish i attached My Word, which was a Tim Holtz token, {i sanded the edges of this slightly} and i pinned it to the canvas using a mini TH kilt pin {am sure that's not what there called but that's what they look like to me} any hoow, that was that.

I placed it back on it's mini easel and ta da, It all came good in the end.

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Thanks for stopping by, visit again soon x

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xx Hugz xx

.{P.S. sorry for the all over the place letter sizing, blogger is obviously having a fit or something coz it all looks right until i publish the post.. oh well !!}.