Feeling Beachy?

Hi everyone!  Nancy here today to share with you a fun mixed media wall hanging I made using my Zutter Bind-it-All, o-Wires, Canvas Artboard and lots of fun goodies from ClearSnap.

I love the texture and weight of the canvas art board.  It is the perfect weight for heavier items like these small shells.  I began these canvases by spritizing with a mixture of different colors of Smooch Spritz, allowing the colors to bleed into one another.  I then added a bit of gesso and finally a super cute embossed sun.  Did you know that Clearsnap makes scented embossing powders under the Color Box line?  This yellow smells like lemons.  So super fun on a project.

The Zutter canvas readily accepted the different mediums including inks, gesso, spray ink, stamps and embossing.

And the antique brass o-wires complimented my project perfectly.

I had a great time creating this wall hanging and I know you would have fun playing with the art board as well.

 Hugs.

Nancy

Be true to you.

Hello everyone, Nicole here. Today I would like to share a fun piece of art I created for my craft room. I had so much fun playing with canvas, templates, and paint. As far as the mess involved, it was well worth it.

First, I altered a 5"X7" piece of canvas using a stencil and some Smooch ink. I used a plain marker for the title.

After I finished painting, I let the piece sit for about an hour to dry. Once dried, I popped the glass out from a 5"X7" frame and popped the 5"X7" canvas board behind the frame.

And here is my final project. I just love how this turned out. This really was an easy project and so much fun.

• Supplies:
• Zutter: 5"X7" Canvas Artboard
• Other:
• Template: Crafter's Workshop
• Spray Ink: Smooch
• Pearlized Accent Ink: Smooch
• Black marker: Ranger
• Gray marker: Creative Memories
• Acrylic Stamp: Technique Tuesday
• Wooden Frame: Target

Feeling Fall-ish and Want To Create Something Pretty Darn Quick?

I have been working like a mad woman on wedding projects for my daughter's wedding.  I had some extra bits of fall foilage stuff hanging around, so I decided to do something un-weddingish and make a fall wall hanging for my dining room. 

I grabbed one of the 8 x 10 Canvas Art Boards  (I still have one left since they come in sets of two, how great is that???) and punched 6 holes in the center top using my pink Bind-It-All.  Then I misted and embellished away.  I used the Distrezz-It-All to make quick work of distressing the edges of the kraft cardstock I used.  That Distrezz-It-All is GREAT!  You can distrezz as much or as lightly as you want and it is done in a jiffy.  I used a bit of the Antique Brass Owires  to top off the hanging, and threaded some lovely velvet corduroy ribbon through it.  This whole project took well under 30 minutes.  I love quick projects, especially when I really don't have time to create.  I find it is easier for me to squeeze in a wee bit of creative time when I create fast and fun things.  Since it is wedding central at my house right now, I definitely need fast and fun!  ;)

Here is a bit more of a close up ~

Grab some Canvas Art Board and create your own wall hanging!

Happy creating!  ~ Pam

Zutter Zister DT Member Pam Sandy

Take your Mini Album to the Wall!

I really love making home decor pieces for around my house and to give away as gifts but find them usually limited to one or two photos and for someone like me who takes hundreds of photos it just not enough. So I racked my brain and came up with this...

For the base of the wall hanging I used a 10x10 Clip-board Wood cover and added my main photo and decorated it with the Sweet Summertime paper line from Echo Park.

I then created two mini albums that I could add to the base with the Hang-It-Alls. To make the mini albums I cut the patterened paper just large enough so they would hang on the Hang-It-Alls without bumping each other and added wallet size photos. To be able to hang it I bound it with two holes so that the owire would be able to hang on the Hang-It-All. You could also use the new Zutter D's to hang from the Hang-it-Alls, but us Zutter Zisters haven't been able to get a hold of these new little doodads yet!  (soon, though, soon!) Here's what the "D's" look like - you can see how well they would've worked for this project!

I love this because not only can you leave it on your wall but you can also remove the mini albums and take them in your purse or take them down to show your friends and family. 

 Zutter Zister DT Member Fleur Smith