Annie's Christmas Tree Board

At last I have the chance to share with you

Annie's finished board.

A fabulous tree, I love the dark tree against

the blue crackled background.

 

 

 

Below you can see the board with lace

to outline the shape of the tree and before

Annie glued all her buttons, flowers and all manner of goodies on,

she then covered the tree with black paint and used

various Treasure Gold pastes to highlight

all the elements, adding a Snowman and Reindeer.

 

 

Here is a close up of a section where you can

see lovely teeny fairy lights strung across the tree

along with hints of glitter here and there.

 

 

 

I hope everyone had a great Christmas, we did.

Now to look forward to see what 2015 will bring.

 

 



Mini Christmas Canvas (Two) decorated on both sides

Hello again and yes with another Christmas Tree Canvas or two

With all the boxes of stuff open in the craft room

I decided to decorate a small 8" canvas

on both sides to place on a shelf or windowsill.

 

I covered the canvas front and back with black gesso.
Gluing all the elements to sketched shapes for the trees.
I then covered these with black gesso and highlighted
with various Treasure Gold pastes.
Finishing with tiny red rhinestones.
Here is the result which now sits on our dresser.

 

8" Christmas Canvas

 

 

As you can see I used a stack of buttons on the front three trees above

also around the frame at the back of the canvas below.

I splattered white paint around the background and over the reindeer.

 

 

Rear view of 8" Christmas canvas

 

The inspiration for the canvas above came after completing another 8" canvas

made for my son and daughter in law to take over to her parents

in Finland later this month, did I say that I find making them 

just a bit addictive.  

 

Here is the canvas which will be bound for Finland on Sunday.

For the base I glued a mesh over the canvas before covering

with gesso and gluing the elements in place

 

 

 

 

 

Margaret's Christmas Boards

 

I am very pleased to also share these photos of two lovely boards

which were finished at home after our last workshop. 

I believe Margaret has used various die cut leaves and flowers

 to great effect, the baubles look very festive.



 

Margaret's Tree Board

 

 

Both boards are wonderful Margaret.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jane's Mixed Media Christmas Tree Board

Hello again, I am back to share this fabulous board by Jane

which she has now completed since our workshop

and kindly sent me these photos.

I love the way Jane has used small red baubles mixed

with pearls, washers, cogs and all manner of goodies.

The white background really enhances the cogs and the tree.

 

 

 

 

As you can see from the photo below, Jane finished her

board and drilled holes from the front to back and

inserted tiny Christmas lights, how fab is that?

 

 

 

Here you can see a section of the board in more detail.

A stunning festive board Jane!

 

 

Until next time..



Mixed Media Black Christmas Tree

Hello again, here is my last tree board,

I could not decide which colour to use or background. 

 It started out as blue then red and finally

I chose to go with Liz's idea of black.  I painted

everything with black gesso stippling the board to give

more texture. 

I used not only metal flowers and other items but I

also buttons of all sizes.  I love the result.

I attached all the items with hot glue and then gilded with

Treasure Gold using 3 different colours.

(close up)

Lastly I felt it needed just a little more and added the red stones

coloured with a Copic pen. 

I have enjoyed this series of festive boards and I still have a

multitude of buttons and junk to attach to something else! 



Christmas Wreath Board

Back again with my finished Wreath Board.  I realised near the end that there was

a danger it might be more oval than round, having the doily base came

in very handy to keep to the shape intended.

 

 

 

 

I used a large paper doily (with centre cut out)  glued this to the board as

a base and guide before adding two coats of

gesso followed by paint.  I then used a large crackle stamp with

white paint for the background.

 

 

 

 

 

I glued all the various metal bits, other die cuts I had

covered with metal paint or gilding paste to give

a metal finish.

 

 

I added colour with ink sprays, alcohol inks, gilding paste and

acrylic silk paints. Glued accent beads to all the gaps.

 

 

 

 

Back later with my latest Christmas Tree Board but in black!!!!

 

 



Mixed Media Christmas Tree Canvas and Pennant Swap

 

 

I had fun bringing together all my junk jewellery and lovely

metal flowers for this tree. I used a canvas as I did

not have a board before preparing for the November workshop.

Oh and although there are only two pearly dangles in this

photograph there are now 4 which looks better.

 

 

The preparation was exactly the same as for the wreath in my

next post but I used lace instead of a doily to

form the tree shape to show texture through the design.

 

 

 

I have used a photograph of this board for my Christmas cards this year.  Very handy!

 

 

 

NOVEMBER PENNANT SWAP

 

 

Now for the pennant swap pics, only two this time as others forgot to bring

theirs but will swap with each other by post.

 

Both of our envelopes were hand made. I used paper from

my gelli plate play days.

 

My pennant

 

Annie's pennant

 

 

I cannot wait to attach my pennants and hang them in my craft room

for inspiration, thank you ladies for all the swaps this year.

 

Back later with my Christmas Wreath Board.

Mixed Media Christmas Workshop

 

 

Another great day with crafty friends creating festive boards.

 

 

I supplied the boards and other supplies to decorate

two sizes.

 

The 12"square boards were for the Wreath Design

I had sealed all the boards with Jo Sonja All Purpose Sealer.

We used a large paper doily, removed the centre panel and used

this as a guide for the layout of the embellishments.

Once glued to the board and dry, we added two coats of gesso then

choice of paint for background.

 

Liz decided to use black gesso for her background

 and more work to complete later.

 

 

Tanya had a great time with her board and red metallic paint before

attaching her collection of goodies and the only one to

finish her board, well done.

 

 

 

The 12 x 18" boards were ideal for the Christmas Tree design.

I supplied some lace but some members provided their own.

These were cut and glued to the board to form the

texture background for the tree shape from a template.

Two coats of gesso covered the lace and board ready to

attach the embellishments.

Burlap used for the pot at the base of the tree.

 

 

 

Annie had exquisite lace for her background tree, far too nice

to cover.  Here she has laid out some of her

embellishments ready to attach and finish later.

 

 

 

 

Jan decided to use very intricate die cut leaves that she

had painted for her tree which she will add to later.

I hope to see it when she has finished it.

 

 

 

Margaret had taken the time to lay out her design and

removed them before I had a chance to photograph them,

another to look forward to seeing finished.

 

 

 

Jane had a wealth of baubles to use for her board

which is very effective.

 

 

 

Maggie again has laid out some items ready to attach

but will have a search at home to find more.

 

 

 

As you can see there is still a lot of work to do to finish

some of these boards and I look forward to seeing

and hopefully sharing them on here.

 

Thank you ladies for a wonderful last workshop for the year,

looking forward to seeing you all again in February.

 

 

 

Back later with photos of my wreath and tree boards.....

 

 

 

 



Maggie's Mixed Media Board

 

A beautiful board that Maggie

has designed in memory of her Mum.

This photo is not of the finished

board, but it looks fabulous at this stage.

Maggie's Board

 

That is it for now, will post if I receive photos of other boards.

Meanwhile I am running another workshop in November

with a Christmas theme collage on a board. 

Marion's Mixed Media Board

 

Wonderful board designed by Marion

incorporating photos from 1964 and 2014

Lovely colours used.

 

Marion's Board

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A stunning board and a lovely keepsake.
Up next.... Maggie



Annie's Mixed Media Board

 

Another gorgeous board by Annie

A lovely seaside theme

Originally very blue, but Annie

toned the blue down as you can see
in the second photo.

I love the way she has used her photo and added

the names on the back of the director chairs.



Annie's Board

 

A wonderful board with attention to detail.

Up next....Marion 



Jane's Mixed Media Board

Jane decided to design this board

as a homage to Lauren Bacall.

 

A stunning board, my photo shot of it

does not do it justice.  For some reason

it appears very pink, see the following

photos for more idea of colours.

 

Jane's Board

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A beautiful board with so many elements, most of the

flowers are hand made mixed with beads

and cogs.  Fabulous.

 

Look out for the next board by Annie