Mixed Media Creative Canvas with SRTC

Hello everyone! Cheri here!! With my first post on the new Southern Ridge Trading Co. blog! Whooo hoo!! Have you been enjoying the projects by my talented team mates? Made with this awesome new Canadian company's chipboard shapes? I am over joyed to have joined this team and I am so happy to show you this project. As many of you are as well, I have been having a BLAST with the new mixed media sensation that has hit our crafty paper crafting universe and it's ALL I've wanted to do for some time. And these shapes from SRTC are PERFECT!! I was inspired by the colours of another mixed media artist on Pinterest (psst... I'm a Pinterest JUNKIE....come follow my boards here) and anyhow I found this GORGEOUS canvas and wanted to use this as inspiration. Here is mine....

So I am addicted to quotes and word inspirations... and then I make these wall hangings. This one if its hard to read, says I'm Creative. You can't Expect Me to be Neat too! I started off with gesso and gel medium to glue down cheesecloth and then layers of flowers and fun chipboard!!! Check out these cool flourishes!!!

After laying down all of the embellishments there is layer after layer of paint and spray mists from Lindy's Stamp Gang and Tattered Angels. The title letters are from American Crafts Thickers. I sure hope you like what you see here, I will be starting some YouTube videos of my canvas art very soon, be sure to pop over to my blog Graphicat Creations to be sure not to miss them!

Trixie Mixed Media Canvas

Here is another canvas/scrap page/mixed media/art piece etc etc. I said in a previous post here that I had stopped doing cards (not forever, just taking a break and trying some new things) so instead of cards I've been trying to make up wall hangings or canvases for my friends and family birthdays rather than cards.

This canvas is for my sweet young cousin in Saskatchewan. Her beloved dog Trixie passed away a few weeks ago and she's been really sad. I reallly wanted to do something to help make a tribute to her *pretty girl* and maybe ease her sorrow. I am SO proud of you Baillee.

This was one of the canvases I had STARTED to try to do in the style of Anna Dabrowska... but... I just like the look of everything in it's natural colour?!?! I don't know if that's the right wording... LOL... I sure love these new laser cut wood or chipboard designs tho! Favorite new product at the moment!

OK!! Sure hope you like!!!

Our Story Canvas

Hello again! Back with another canvas project I have made my mom for her birthday. Altho I have to say.... this one I am loathe to let go, it may be one of my favorite layouts I have ever done to date. I was wanting to make her a couple of canvases for her birthday, originally I was planning on doing matching canvases of her 3 grandkids, but just couldn't find the pictures that worked for what I wanted to do (I am hoping my sister in law is going to help me with that this weekend!!) And I kept looking at this photo that my sis in law took of us....goodness... 5 years ago?!?! Crazy.... Anyhow, this is what came out of it. I so want to KEEP IT! 

The photo just does not seem to do it justice. It's a 12x12 thick canvas, but I put that crocheted lace that I have painted Brown around the edge of the canvas so it sticks out nearly an inch on all sides. Then I've used some AWESOME papers by Theresa Collins (I am not happy that the name of the paper line has escaped thru one of the large black holes in my brain.... argh! it's beautiful and has a lot of Chalk like aspects to it!).

Anyhow, I hope you like it as much as I do...and well, I hope my mom gets to keep it! hahaaa

Awesome Brad Mixed Media Canvas

OK! So I am BACK! And with a vengeance! There should be a post every few days here for you for the next little while...and I'm hoping (not promising) that that trend will continue...forever! I have found some scrappy mojo the last little while and have been creating again, just not blogging so I'm about to type up a bunch of posts and schedule them for next week. 

I have not been making a lot of cards lately... truthfully, while I LOVE making them, receiving them, looking at them, they have NEVER come very easy to me. I always stressed over them so much! A while back I started scrap-booking again, and it truly is my first love... but I also have been fascinated with the new trend of mixed media art journals and canvas art pieces. As a graphic artist I of course am an artist first and foremost so these new exciting trends in the paper crafting industry gets me so excited!!! 

So! First up!! I made this canvas in the style of Anna Dabrowska and Gabrielle Pollacco

I have tried to do one of these a few times but always take a different turn, and they end up looking very different. Which is one of my FAVORITE things about art... you get inspiration from others but then take it YOUR WAY.... everything is original then. Anyhow, when shopping with my mom one day a few months ago she saw a sample peice done by Anna Dabrowska at a scrapbook store lucky enough to have her coming to teach classes for them and she fell in love with the sample so I wanted to follow thru all the way on this one for my mom's 70th birthday. 

Happy Birthday Mom!

This is picture of my son at his Grade Seven graduation. It was so fun to add all the layers with embossing folders and molding paste and wood elements... then you cover them in Gesso and use spray inks to cover everything. Honestly, it is WAY outta my comfort zone (which is ALWAYS a good place to push yourself as an artist! LOL). I sure hope mom likes it, and you all as well! 

Thanks for sticking around for so long here on this abandoned blog of mine....stay tuned for more!

Abby's Canvas (that I made forever ago!!)

Well.... Apparantly I never posted this! Geesh! I was just looking at the blog as I do some posting and scheduling and I posted the canvas I made for my older neice Ellie but not Abby's! I have no idea what happens in my brain these days, but it sure doesn't function as it used to....

I made this sparkly pink creation for my sweet little Abby. Who, like her Auntie, loves all things PINK, sparkly and has four feet and fur!!! Yup! She is destined to be a crazy cat lady just like her Aunt... a crazy cat lady that will go berzerk over dogs!!! haha That little girl is an 8 year old Ceasar Millan! 

I sure had fun making these up for the girls. I hope you like it too!!