Melissa Frances

Festive Little Canvas by Kathy Adams

Happy Cinco De Mayo! Kathy here today to share a 6" x 6" canvas using a Melissa Frances Flea Market Find Applique, Art Anthology mediums, a medallion stencil, and some bright colored paint pens.  I drew inspiration from Mexican tiles, with their bright colors and geometric shapes.

Supplies

Flea Market Find: Pisa Metal Applique

Art Anthology Fluorite and Rhodolite Gemstones

Art Anthology Gold Metal Effects

Wild Orchid Colorations Spray 

6" x 6" Deep Edge Canvas

Medallion Stencil

Light Molding Paste

Diamond Background Stamp

Bright Colored Paint Pens

Upholstery Tacks

 

Tutorial

Start by spreading molding paste through the medallion stencil, and let dry.  Add Fluorite and Rhodolite Gemstones. 

While the Gemstones are still wet, spray with Wild Orchid Colorations Spray.  To create the subtle tone-on-tone pattern, I stamp a diamond background stamp onto the sides and edges of the canvas while everything was still wet.

Once everything is dry, use paint pens to outline and highlight the raised medallion.

Add upholstery tacks to the edges of the canvas.  Make sure to measure from the center to get them evenly spaced.

Lightly sand the metal Flea Market Finds Applique and add a light coat of gesso to ensure that the mediums stay put!

 

Paint the Applique with Gemstones and let dry.

Add a few coats of Gold Metal Effects letting them dry between coats.

Glue the rhinestones onto the Applique and the canvas.

Glue the Applique to the center of the canvas.

I want to make more of these! 

 

I hope you enjoyed my festive canvas tutorial.  Now go get creative!

 

Kathy Adams

Visit Kathy's blog at: http://kathyadamsmixedupart.blogspot.com/

 

See Kathy's art work on Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/katluvsdogs/my-art/

Detailed Tags by Emeline

 

Undeniably, Melissa Frances manufactures one of the best (may I add prettiest) non-paper embellishments. There are many embellishments in the market and pretty and sturdy ones like these made by Melissa Frances are sorely lacking. Wooden chipboards, white resins, silver metallic ones are really beautifully cut with intricate details. 

 

In my project here, I created a couple of tags and tag jackets. Due to the hardiness of these beautiful embellishments, I used tags and card stock for added strength so that the tags and envelope will not look flimsy.

 

 

 

Here, I layered white resin onto metallic ornate structure. The contrast is simply gorgeous. Raw, untreated in its basic form. 

 

 

 

 

 

Hope you'll find some time this week to carve out some creative time for yourself!

 

Emeline 

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"heART" by Anna Komenda

Hello. It's Anna here with my first inspiration for Melissa Frances. 

I created a mixed media project - round canvas with heart. I had an idea of this project in my head for a while and when I saw Flea Market Finds metal element I felt like it was last piece of the puzzle.

I started creating and it all went pretty fast.

 

 

 

 

 

 I used this element under the inscription. It created beautiful background for the letters. I wanted my canvas to be all red and gold so I had to change the color of the metal element. I painted it with gesso and applied some gold mediums from Art Anthology.

 

 

Thanks to the flexibility of this Flea Market Finds I could attach it easily to my puffy, dimensional, heart.

 

 

And here are few close-ups for my design.

 

 

 

I even have a process video if You are curious of how this canvas was done.

 

 

Thank You for stopping by.

Anna

Beautiful Flea Market Finds!

 

Hello!  Phyllis here to share an oversized tag I created using

Melissa Frances chipboard and wood pieces,  resin embellishment and Flea Market Finds.

I used Art Anthology dimensional paints for the flower cluster resin,  chipboard and wood pieces.

 

 

I love the wine bottle and the wine glass is perfect.  

I used flowers,  lace trim,  papers and corrugated board for all the layers on this tag.

Below are more close ups!

 

 

 

Thank you for stopping by today!

 

I hope that I have inspired you to create something beautiful!

 

 Check out  Melissa Frances items and start creating something beautiful!

 

Until next time.

~Phyllis

 

 

Melissa Frances and Art Anthology Classes

What a fun combo! Fantastic media along some amazing mediums.

This fun little canvas will be offered at several different shows this year.  Be sure and check our show schedule as well as the Art Anthology Show Schedule to see if its offered in your area.

Melissa Frances Flea Market Finds

Kathy Adams here today to share a series of three wood canvases using Art Anthology mediums and Melissa Frances Flea Market Finds Metal Appliques.  I LOVE how the altered Appliques turned out and I made them the focal point of the canvases. I also used some vintage music paper and aged it a bit for the background.

 To see how to alter the Flea Market finds check out the snap guide i created

Check out How to Paint a Wood Canvas and Alter Metal by Kathy Adams by Art Anthology on Snapguide.

 

Make sure to check out Melissa Frances wonderful vintage collection of products.  They are great for altering, or leaving as is, adding to canvases, home decor and memory keeping.

Thanks for visiting the blog today!

Kathy Adams

Links to products used: Art Anthology Sorbet, Art Anthology Velvet, Art Anthology Colorations Sprays, Melissa Frances Flea Market Finds   

Visit Kathy's blog at: http://kathyadamsmixedupart.blogspot.com/

See Kathy's art work on Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/katluvsdogs/my-art/