Sue Smyth post

By the Sea Canvas and

Butterfly Canister 

By Sue Smyth 

Hi Bloggers

I have a few projects to share with you today, a Mermaid Canvas 

called By the Sea, a Sweet Easter Bird branch and 

lastly a Butterfly Canister 

The first two actually don't use as much chipboard

as I am used to, I love to use lots, so this

is a bit different for me.

To get the very ornate borders, I have glued two 

cheap plastic frames to a canvas. The gap 

in between I have filled with chipboard shapes for texture..

In the centre of the frame I have used

texture paste and a stencil to create texture and a spot

for my resin mermaid to sit.

The title is chipboard alphabet embossed with 

aged gold powder and rubbed over with black ink.

I have also snipped up a piece of chipboard to

 create a net like effect above and below the mermaid, I have 

added small pearls to the intersections of the net.

Once I have glued all of the frames and chipboard down, I have 

painted the lot with gesso, then sprayed with 

turquoise, blue and green dylusions.

Dry and add more layers to get a deep effect. When it is

dry rub over the raised areas with gold metallic paint

Snip up Loolabelle's circular cross chipboard, paint with metallic blue. 

While wet sprinkle with turquoise glitter. Allow to dry

and decorate with small pearls

At the bottom of the small frame, I have added lots of shells,

dyed muslin and a small bottle filled with metallic seed beads.

Materials 

Butterfly Canister 

I love storage, so for my next project I have made 

a canister that I can store ribbons, flowers etc in.

I have started with a corrugated cylinder, but you could

just as easily adhere corrugated card to an ordinary mache box.

Spray the whole canister with matt black spray paint

then rub over with gold metallic paint.

Kates Doily chip is embossed with aged 

gold embossing powder then spritzed with 

black dylusions and I have wiped off the 

excess

The pearl strip around the edge have been sprayed with 

matt black paint too as

I wanted them to be black!

The trim on the bottom is chipboard

sprayed matt black.

Then rub over with graphite inka gold

apply gold liquid pearls and while 

wet sprinkle with a little gold glitter, for a 

nice glittered raised look.

I have added pins as extra antenna !

To make the butterfly, first spray with 

matt black spray paint, then rub

the centre with blue, purple and graphite 

inka golds, keep adding until you have the 

look you are after.

I always like at iridescent look and combining 

these colours will give you that.

Then add lots of gold glitter glue to the edges.

Finish with lots of iridescent seed beads in the

centre 

Materials 

Bonus Project

Sweet Easter Bird decoration 

This project is just a little bit of fun, to make the nest

I have cut chipboard into lots of thin strips.

Wet it and scrunch up into a nest shape.

then adhere onto Chipboard circle shape. 

Dry brush with gesso, spray with brown 

spray ink, then spray with glitter spray.

To decorate the leaves, I have painted them white

with gesso and then dabbed Whipped spackle over top.

When dry spritz with olive green glimmer mist or any

green spray.

Add lots of flowers, moss, pearls, a bird, her eggs and tinsy

mushrooms.

This will sit on the table for Easter.

Happy Crafting