Today's Mixability Challenge is an inspiration with beautiful colors and pumpkins. I decided that it would be fun for Dina's challenge today to use her Falliday Fest tutorial for a mason jar topper with the inspiration. I had already prepped my cross-stitch fabric with 2 coats of Gesso and used my Nestabilities circles for the camvas and template. Somehow my circle was too small in the end. Will have to reread for the next try. I ended up cutting an extra canvas and glued that over the felt then the colored piece. I stamped with Timber Brown Stazon and was glad to be using the MISTI to stamp an extra time or two for better coverage. I colored with colored pencils and blended with a blender pen. I had a wood leaf for an accent but it was an ugly lime green so I painted over it with Pumpkin then after drying added some Terra Cotta paint. I used a Bronze Sharpie to go over the vein lines. I die cut 4 acorns in Kraft and stamped with the lines from Gorgeous Grunge for the cross hatched top and then cut two for that layer. I stamped a bit of spatter on the body of the acorn and sponged the edges after gluing it together. I cut 3 sentiments and glued them onto a piece of burlap. I had intended to hang this too, but I decided to glue it to the jar instead. This also fits in today's Free for All challenge to add fiber. I've got fabric, burlap and twine.
Date: Friday, October 27, 2017 GMT Views: 656
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Registered: July 27, 2007 Location: Dublin, Ireland Posts: 132007
Fri, Oct 27, 2017 @ 11:45 AM
Using the Aida cloth instead of canvas gives beautiful texture...but even primed with gesso it must still have been tricky to stamp on. But you sure ended up with a treat of a jar topper.
Registered: October 18, 2015 Location: Cary, NC Posts: 19903
Fri, Oct 27, 2017 @ 11:53 AM
Your jar topper is lovely! But maybe, Sabrina, has the right idea using Aida cloth instead of canvas. Even with two layers of Gesso it wasn’t all that easy to stamp on. But yours did turn out lovely!
Registered: July 9, 2008 Location: Stars Fell on Alabama Posts: 75038
Fri, Oct 27, 2017 @ 11:59 AM
What a wonderful jar topper for Fall. Love that you stamped on the canvas.
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Fri, Oct 27, 2017 @ 4:35 PM
Ooh that is a cool idea to do detailing with a sharpie ( I have not heat set mine yet) and have been debating over doing them again because, some of the detailing was really lost stamping on canvas ( by me ) so, anyways, I like the trailing embellishments too