Time for another piece from one of our guest DTMs. This time it's the turn of...
Lin - Top 3 Winner, May
“I was very surprised to be chosen as a top 3 merit winner so thank you. When I saw the challenge was *Sizzling Summer* I sat down with a cuppa and thought what does sizzling summer bring to mind? Well it takes me back to when I was a little girl when summers were long hot sunny days down in Cornwall or Camber Sands with my parents and sisters...lovely memories. So I took a 4"x4" canvas and painted in a beach. I used a stampin up stamp..(I think it is from a retired set) and stamped the girl on crackly tissue paper. I painted it from the back finishing it with snowflake frescos to make the colours pop. I stuck it onto the canvas using matt medium and touched up the edges so they disappeared into the canvas. I put the canvas into a 6"x 6" wooden box frame which had been distressed. I added a Tim Holt word band with string and some shells, reindeer moss and netting to the bottom and a starfish on the top of the frame. I lightly brushed some walnut stain ink around the edge to finish it off.”
Thank you Lin for his beautiful canvas, so inspiring.
Keep the entries coming please, they're fabulous! We'll be posting another project (from Trace) in a few days. xxx
8 comments:
Very pretty. xxxx
That really is a beautiful, memory evoking scene you have created and I love how you added the canvas to the wonderfully crackled wooden frame. x
I really love this..as Anne said, it evokes so many memories and I would hang it on my wall without hesitation, fabulous! Carole Z X
Delightful image Lin! Takes me back too... Love the crackled frame with shells.
A really great make x hugs trace x
What a wonderful make lin - really gorgeous x
Lovely crackle, and a feel of summers gone by...
Alison x
Well done Lin, gorgeous project - fantastic crackle!!!
Sam xxx
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