Holly & Ivy decorated canvas
I made this for the Holly & Ivy Challenge December 2021 on the Gecko Galz Blog
The white canvas is 8 inch by 8 inches in size. To start I used a stencil and white texture paste, laid the stencil on top of the canvas, and using a spatula spread the texture paste over the top then lifted off the stencil and put the canvas aside to dry. When dry the stenciled design gives a raised embossed effect. Next, I gave the canvas a coat of green acrylic paint and dried it off with a craft heat gun.
I then hand-painted over the raised scroll design in different areas on the background with metallic copper acrylic paint.
Having already chosen the image of the girl that is from a digital collage sheet called Cuties at Christmas by the Gecko Galz. I resized the image to fit the canvas and printed it out onto photo-quality matt paper.
The frame around the image is made out of MDF so I painted it with copper metallic paint to match the background, then cut around the image to fit inside the frame.
I adhered them together with glue and then adhered them down in the centre of the canvas.
The floral spray is hand made by myself and I added that to the right-hand side of the frame then added a holly embellishment to the top left-hand side of the frame, also I coloured clear gem embellishments using a red alcohol marker and added them to the frame
The raised holly embellishments on the four corners of the canvas I had previously made out of paper clay so I painted the leaves with the same green acrylic paint and highlighted them using copper acrylic paint, I also painted the berries with red acrylic paint so that all the decoration on the canvas will match together
I want to enter the Holly & Ivy Challenge for December 2021 on the Gecko Galz Blog
