"The theme for this month’s challenge is all about celebrating the reasons why you love to create! Please create a scrapbook page or home decor project CELEBRATING CREATIVITY. Project must be newly created for this challenge and should include at least 2 cuts to qualify. You must also:
- Use the Shadow Feature
- Use Patterned Paper (purchased, printed, or created with stamps, etc.)
- Use Embellishments to Enhance One of the Cuts (pearls, buttons, gems, glitter, etc.)
I chose to make a home decor piece for my studio, if I can find a blank piece of wall to put it on. My walls are still builder-neutral, but most items in my room are black, pink, and aqua, ao those are the colors I stick with. I had a 16x20 canvas leftover from my Canvas Cricut Clock project a while back, so I started with that. Here is my final result:
Using some blue craft paint (and a drop of green) and some Create-A-Shade Pearl Paint from Close To My Heart, I painted the entire canvas with a foam brush. Then I painted around the sides with black craft paint. Now, I just love the contrast between distress and bling, so I chose papers with a distressed/messy feel, then I added to it by swiping the edges of my cuts with a Desert Sand ink pad. It doesn't show in the picture, but I also sprayed my "whitish" cuts with some Pearl Glimmer Mist. I adhered all of my cuts (except the blossoms) to my canvas using my Xyron and a little Tacky Glue in a couple of spots. The blossoms were manipulated to mimic real tree blossoms and added using Glue Dots. After the paper was all adhered, I added my embellishements: rhinestone swirls, single self-adhesive rhinestones and pearls, and a couple of metal flowers.
I LOVE how this turned out, and I can't wait to find the perfect place for it where it will sparkle and shine in the light, and hopefully help spark my creativity!
Supplies used for this project:
- 16"x20" canvas
- Create-A-Shade Pearl Paint
- Blue and Green acrylic craft paint
- Paper from my stash (discontinued Close To My Heart)
- Cricut Expression
- Cricut Gypsy
- French Manor cartridge - bird, p.39 (flipped); half-shield, p. 54 (Layer feature, outer cut line only, slid halfway off the virtual mat on the gypsy)
- Gypsy Wanderings (on Gypsy) - branch & blossoms, p. 59
- George and Basic Shapes cartridge - M and Y
- Home Decor cartridge - "create" (phrase and Shadow)
- Stand and Salute cartridge- "pursuit of happiness", p.71 (regular cut and Shadow feature)
- Rhinestone Flourishes (these are from Michael's Recollections brand, and are currently on clearance with the Halloween items!)
- Glimmer Mist from Tattered Angels in Pearl
- Xyron 1200 adhesive machine
- Clear Sparkles from Close to My Heart
- Opaques Pearl Adhesive Gems from Close To My Heart
- Foundry Flourishes Assortment from Close To My Heart
- Glue Dots
- Alene's Tacky Glue
This turned out really cute! Love it!
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