Wednesday 27 May 2015

Canvas - Using crafty individuals stamps and gelatos

This is something I did at Helen Chilton's workshop a few weeks ago - the theme of the class was to use gelatos.  We also made a masculine themed one, but I haven't taken a photo of that one yet.  We stamped the hares on tissue paper, then painted over the background.  Stamped the black stamps on to tissue paper too, then stuck them down.  Be quite careful not to get ridges on them when you stick them down (but it doesn't matter too much when you get away from the main image).  We then used gelatos to paint the background and stencil round the edges - then we did my favourite bit.  Put a stencil on top, wipe a wet wipe over it and it takes off a lot of gelato - that's how we got the white dots on either side.  As a finishing touch, we wired up beads and put them on using an upholstery nail.