Wild And Free Canvas Panel by Leonie Neal-Dawson

Hello, I hope you all are relaxing and enjoying this Easter Weekend.

Our family generally goes camping this weekend but this Easter we are staying home so have no particular plans. I am thinking maybe fitting in some crafting will be an option..? What do you do over Easter Weekend?

Today I have this canvas panel to share with you. 

"She was life itself, wild and free. Wonderfully chaotic, a perfectly put together mess."

9x12" Canvas Panel 

I used this paper 'Bright and Beautiful 1' by Paper Arts. I liked the pastel tones to this paper and thought they looked a little 'Easter-ish' and that's probably where my Easter theme ends!

I cut the paper into lots of different sized squares and rectangles and collaged them onto 

a 9x12" canvas panel using Liquitex Matte Medium.

Next up I used a black Stabilo Aquarellable pencil to define each rectangle and smudged out the lines with a wet paint brush. Some stamping and splashes of watered down Gesso finished of the base of my canvas panel. 

My Chipboard title piece Wild and Free is by Memory Maze. I incorporated this into my quote

"She was life itself, wild and free. Wonderfully chaotic, a perfectly put together mess."

Can I let you know, 'Mess' is how I was feeling about my title chipboard after adding layer after layer to it

before I finally settled on something I was happy with. 

Liquitex Gesso came first but looked too plain, then it was black ink but I didn't like that either. Texture Paste and Dylusions sprays next - that blended in with the background too much! I was really beginning to think it was going to end up in the bin until I added a couple of coats of  Dylusions White Linen Spray. This last layer covered the bright dylusions pinks, purples and teal...but still left a faint tinge of them showing through, that and the earlier layer of texture paste finally made me happy. Phew, I was getting worried there for a bit. 

I accentuated my panel with these lovely Prima flowers, I like that they also had some feathers and so  tied in with the Wild and Free theme. 

That's it for me today, I hope you have a lovely Easter Holiday.

Happy Crafting and 

cheers from me. 

Leonie Neal-Dawson

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Travel Themed Junk Journal

 Good Morning Arty Peeps!

How is your December going? I hope you are taking some

creative time for yourself amongst all the festive chaos.

I Spent last weekend finishing the Junk Journal I made in Lisa's class

at Gundy Scraptacular in November, I used it to tell the story all about the trip.

The cover is coloured with Dylusions spray inks and BoBunny glitter paste

through some Kinder Kreations stencils.

It's so bright and sparkly!

I continued the colourful theme the whole way through, adding Dylusions acrylic paints

(applied with a wet wipe) and vine stamp to patterned paper pages. 

I used up lots of stray leftovers for embellishing - Something Wonderful tags, washi tape, chipboard elements, and enamel shapes, (such a great range for mixing with anything).

I cut out bright bits of patterned paper from a Heidi Swapp 6 x 6 pad, and used Studio Calico chippy hearts to make page tabs, sticking them back-to-back over the page edge.

These Kaiser stickers were so appropriate for my theme, they are sprinkled throughout.

You'll also see some Heidi Swapp acetate words, Memory Maze chippy arrows, My Mind's Eye enamel dots, and paint pens used in this little album.

I love how this turned out and it was so quick and easy to throw together using just leftover products. Made of 12 x 12 papers folded in half and stitched down the middle, it's a really easy book to make.

I am definitely going to do another, maybe for a December Daily!

A perfect keepsake of an amazing trip!

Stay crafty, and remember this amazing challenge.

Upload your projects here.

Thanks so much for coming by,

'til next time

Oxide Love!

 Hi there Arty Peeps!
Hope your Easter break was great!

I'm here today to share my slightly rearranged take on the April sketch challenge. It's a fun one, you can play along here, or check it out at the bottom of this post.

I have been having such a brilliant time with my new Tim Holtz Distress oxides, I simply cannot leave them alone! I have used them to create all of my page backgrounds lately. So, so pretty!

I typed my journalling on vellum (so as not to completely cover the background) and coloured some chippy arrows black to guide your eye around the page. I added some strips of Hambly for pops of lime, and circles in paper and brads, for embellishments. These brads have a sticky back so no need to poke holes, cool!

For my title I coloured the wood veneer '2017' and '&' as well as the foil Thickers 'friends' with an alcohol marker. I made up 'Ruby' from leftover words in this pack of foam Thickers. A Prima flower, some leaves, and a cute sticky brad make up my little embellishment cluster.

So here is the finished page.

Kinda like the sketch.

Hope you are playing along with us this month. If a mood board is more your thing we have one of those here.

Til next time,

stay scrappy.