Last weekend I ran an altered canvas class that featured a number of Collections products. A few of the finished canvases have been uploaded to the gallery and I love the way Marion and Kathy have personalised the canvas by adding different elements and a photo.

This is Sue-Maree’s canvas – she has mostly followed the instructions but added a few acetate butterflies.

This is Kathy’s canvas and she has altered the design and changed a few elements so that she could include a photo.

Marion completed the class but then altered the design to create this lovely canvas -

If you like the canvases and want to have a go at one yourself the instructions are in our forum and I still have a few kits available in the shop.

Happy scrapping!

I am clearing some older posts out of the forum but couldn’t bring myself to just delete the classes so  I am going to showcase them on the blog before deleting. This great class from Susan certainly contains a lot of wonderful hints and tips.

Requirements

a photo…I have used a 6 x 8 but a smaller one would work just as well
1 sheet of white cardstock
1 sheet patterned paper and two sheets of co-ordinating cardstock
a paper doily (if you don’t have one you can pick them up at party goods stores….or go beg your local coffee shop for one. )
a paper serviette with a pattern on it that you like.
glimmermist
embellishments

Instructions

Grab your serviette and separate the layers….you only need the uppermost patterned layer of it.

Once separated scrunch up the top layer of the serviette  into a little ball….unscrunch it and using a glue stick or craft glue attach it to your white cardstock.

The next step is to add some colour and some shimmer to your serviette page. I have used two different shades of red/pink glimmermist to add some depth to my page.

Ok….set aside your serviette background to dry.

Take two other cardstock sheets and a patterned paper….

Cut one sheet of cardstock to 25cm square

And the second one to 24cm square

Adhere the smaller card to the larger leaving a nice border all the way around. Ink the edges.

Adhere this cardstock mat to you serviette cardstock on a slight angle.

Next

Cut your piece of patterned paper using a scalloped edge….so that it is slightly smaller than your 24cm square cardstock and adhere that you your cardstock mat…align it so that it is upright on your page (you know..not on an angle…but it will be angled to the card mat.)

Doodle around the cut scalloped egde.

Take a paper doily….and spray with a contrasting glimmer mist…if you don’t have another colour, you can alter it with paint, ink, chalk or you can just leave it white.

Distress the edges of your photo. Then attach your photo to the layout tucking the doily under the edge of your photo.

Using paint or ink on the edge of a piece of scrap card stamp journal lines onto your doily and edging onto your photo.

All that is left to do is to add your title and embellishments.

Yesterday Anna ran an absolutely scrapbooking fantastic class which gives heaps of hints and tips for creating a scrapbooking page. If you haven’t checked it out already make sure you do.

This is Anna’s finished page -