Hello! Valerie here continuing on with chipboard week. What a great week of projects, right!? Today I’m sharing an 8 x 10 inch canvas that I embellished with My Mind’s Eye chipboard elements. I looked through my entire stash and mixed and matched from a variety of different collections (Jubilee, Market Street, Now & Then, and Chalk Studio).
Supplies: Jubilee: Mint Julep, Sherbet, and Wild Berry chipboard elements. Market Street: Ashbury Heights and Nob Hill chipboard elements.Now and Then: Mildred and Dorothy chipboard elements. Chalk Studio chipboard elements. Other: 8x10 canvas, mini clothespin, hot glue.
I love the challenge and the hunt of mixing and matching. It’s fun to sort through my stash and pull out pieces I think will coordinate well for the project I have in mind. I’ve been on a canvas “kick” lately. I could stand at my scrap desk all day and make projects like this on canvas.
Last time I created a canvas project, I did a lot of work with spray inks for a more colorful, mixed media background. This time I kept it sweet and simple. Just arranging the elements until I found a grouping I liked and hot glued them down. I love the thickness of the chipboard and how it adds just the right amount of dimension. I really feel like it’s finished and complete and doesn’t need anything else. Not even a couple enamel dots, even though I did consider it.
So easy, right?! Don’t be intimidated by a blank canvas, and don’t be afraid to use only one type of embellishment to create something lovely.
