Linda Cain #3 .... Believe Canvas

"Hi everyone.... I watched Leandra’s fabulous video with stamping on Crackly Tissue Paper and had to try it. So here’s my take on it"!

I started with a gessoed 4 x 7 ¾ inch canvas from my stash. I started with Sky all over the canvas. Then I used a piece of Cut-n-Dry Foam to add Inky Pool and Eggplant to the edges. 

 Using Versafine Black Onyx Ink I stamped the "Balloon Boy" from the Lynne Perrella 018 set onto the Crackly Tissue Paper and heat set. 

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The next step is all completely up to you and what you want. I used different colors to paint the back of the stamped image. The face, the hands and any highly defined areas are first painted with Snowflake to keep the image sharp eq. the "Believe" and script signs, and the sash. All the other colors are filled in as you like. Then you can flip it over and add the translucent and semi-opaque paints in glazes like on the face and Believe portions of the image. I HIGHLY recommend you watch her video. I cannot do the technique justice with the written word.

One tip from the video is to use plain water on a brush and run it around the image where you want to tear it out. It only takes a moment and you can then easily tear the image out and pull a cool feathery edge around it. 

 When you’re happy with the color on the piece, I added Snowflake to seal it from the back. 

Flip it over and use the Sky paint to paint all around the figure….I should have taken a picture here, but sadly, I didn’t. This is probably the most detailed painting you’ll have to do. But it will be worth it. Then since I didn’t have any Satin Glaze like Leandra used, I used Glue-n-Seal with a brush to add a layer onto the canvas, then a layer to the back of the stamped image. Now you lay the image down onto the canvas and smooth the area with your brush.

The very cool thing about this paper is how sturdy it is. You can lift it up, reposition it, lay it back down, push the bubbles out, whatever, and it doesn’t tear. Amazing!

I added some of the Sky paint around the center section to blend it in.  When dry, I sanded the edges. I love how the different colors come up with a wonderful distressed look. 

The next layers are stamps with inks and some with paint. I used Guacamole with the tiny Numbers Mini 23,

 and the larger Numbers Mini 22 were stamped with Snowflake. 

 I dried it with the heat tool very gently so as not to get it too hot.

The more layers of the sealer you use, the shinier it becomes and the better the definition of the stamped images, in my humble opinion. 

Hope you enjoy this, and let us know if you have any questions.

I will be back tomorrow evening with one last project to share with you all.

Leandra Says: Yes you are so right about the sealer! The magic paint lady explained it to me. She says that a layer of satin or gloss will get more 'glossy' with each layer, and thus reflect more light back to our eyes off the paint particle. This also enhances our perception of colour, so if it is shinier, it looks much brighter to our eyes as more particles of light are reflected back. Once gloss sealed, our matte paints can look like a completely different colour palette.Good to know!
Also paint is a 3D particle (compared to inks which are not), so light is reflected off it in multiple directions, that is why you can paint a whole room the same colour, but depending on how the light from the window hits the walls, and is reflected back to our eyes, you perceive it looks like completely different shades.

On other sadder news, our Crackly Tissue paper has become a bit of a crisis situation for us here at PA HQ. It seems like the supplier has ceased manufacture.We have been working like mental for the last 2 weeks to try and find an alternative product, but so far we cannot find anything that comes close to what we had, so for now, until we resolve this, the item is discontinued. Sad times, but we are still working on it!

Gillian Says: This is just gorgeous Linda, love the deep shade of blue and the white stamping gives the illusion of so much texture.