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Thursday, March 27, 2014

Altered Canvas

Hi everyone, today I am would like to share and altered canvas I made. Not sure if I am going to use it as a cover for a mini album, or actually adhere to the cover of a 12x12 album.
The first thing I did was cover the canvas that I had from an older Club Q kit, with a thin coat of Gesso, I also put another layout of Gesso on it using a stone template, but in the end it doesn't show up that well, but does give it more texture, especially after I coated it with Quick Quotes Powderpuff Inks. I having been experimenting with my new love, UTEE, and will show you examples of what I came up with for this project. Here is the finished project.

For the hearts inked them with Powderpuff inks and then applied a coated of homemade mists. Around the ended a made a mixture of UTEE and Perfect Pearls, and a funny thing happened when I put my heater on it, It didn't really melt smoothly, but rather made little clumps, I am guessing that was because of the Gesso, but I really love the look.

I also put UTEE on every single letter, what a task that was, but I wanted to show you how it changes the paper. Pretty cool huh?

I hope I gave you some inspiration to go and experiment with different mediums. It really is a lot of fun, and if you mess up, just try again! You never know what you can come up.

Here is a list of products used in this project.

Quick Quotes Baggage Claim 700

Quick Quotes Powderpuff ink Caribbean Blue

Quick Quotes Club Q - Canvas from a previous kit

Other products, Gesso, UTEE, rope, homemade mist, Perfect Pearls, Stick pin.

Thank you for stopping by Quick Quotes!

Donna Coughlin

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Velumn Flowers

Today I wanted share with you some velumn flowers I made. I found this idea after watching several Youtube videos and took a combination of ideas to make these.

First I started out with Quick Quotes Bundles Travel and Family and pulled out several sheets of the velumn and embossed some of them. After the first my first flower and leaves I realized the embossing wasn't showing up like I wanted, so the two smaller ones I skipped the embossing. .Cut six flowers on the Cricut use dies. Then ink them with Quick Quotes Powderpuff ink, after that dries hold the six flowers together, punch a hole, and put a brad or eyelet in the center. Now here where the fun comes in, spray with Creative Imagination mist (gold) on both sides of the flowers, take a heat gun and dry until it just starts curling. Using your hand shape the leaves while the are still warm or you can let it go and let nature do it's thing. I love the way it curled up in the middle.
And here is the layout I made using the flowers. Can anyone guess what the scallop from at top right hand over the banner is from? It is from the bow on top of the present from the Quick Quotes Birthday Bag o' Chips. Earlier I had messed up the package part, but being a hoarder of scrapbook supplies I kept it around to repurpose!