WOW, this blog is very dusty. Hello All! I hope this post finds each of you doing so well! I have not been creating much this year due to some medical issues, but I was fortunate enough to get to create a little something for the Tim HoltzSizzix Spring Vault Launch. There are two parts to this launch with 5 sets out today, and the next part will come out on the 31st. The first five sets are the Vault Edge, Vault Industrial, Vault Atomic Retro, Vault Noteworthy, and the Sidekick Side-Order Vault Floristry, and I've used the last two to create another Van Gogh inspired Sunflowers piece, this time a 4x5 inch canvas, and using his 3 Sunflowers In A Vase as my guide. (If you missed my other two Van Gogh inspired pieces, click here for The 12 Sunflowers and here for The Poppies.) Enjoy!
I actually made two at the same time....one for Sizzix and one for home that I framed from a gorgeous little frame I found at an antique mall.
I used this image as my guide with the dies from the Side-Order Vault Floristry to create both canvases much the same as I did the others.
(Note: It's good to print
off the Van Gogh 3 Sunflowers In A Vase for reference while you work, or
have the pics on your phone to use for detail work.) Take a 4x5 inch canvas (I
did 2, a chunky and a panel.) and using a palette knife, apply a thin layer of Opaque
Distress Texture Paste from Tim and Ranger, to the whole canvas dividing up wall (vertical lined pattern)
and where the table part (about 1 inch wide horizontal line pattern) will be. Let
the canvas dry about an hour.
Paint over the top textured
area with Broken China Distress Paint. While the paint is still wet add a bit
of Picket Fence Distress Paint here and there vertically (using the pic as your
guide) creating stripes of color while blending them for a soft striated look. Using
Scorched Timber Distress Paint, add a line of paint where the blue ends, and
then dashes of Vintage Photo, Squeezed Lemonade, Mustard Seed, and Rusty Hinge
filling in the whole bottom area, again using the pic as your guide. Let the
canvas dry.
Free
hand cut the vase (about 1.5 inches tall) from scrap cardstock and add two
sided tape to the back. Using the Distress Paints, Broken China, Picket Fence,
Scorched Timber, Twisted Citron, and Peeled Paint, try to recreate the look of
the vase in the pic. Begin die cutting the leaves and stems using scrap green
cardstock backed with two sided tape, from the Floristry Side Order. Use either Twisted Citron, Peeled Paint, or Scorched Timber to paint in the leaves and stems, following the pic.
Emboss the vase with the Honeycomb looking Texture Fade, and then use a bit of Scorched Timber around the edges of the vase. When dry, apply Collage Medium to the canvas where the vase will go, remove the backing and stick it on, coating it with Collage Medium as you go. When dry, play with the arrangement of leaves and stems to see where they will go, and begin to stick them on with the Collage Medium as well.
Add two sided tape to the back of light and dark yellow cardstock scrap, and begin die cutting all the flower petals and centers using the Floristry Side-Order, as well as the circle from Vault Noteworthy for a few more round center pieces. Begin to layer the petals and centers by removing the backing and sticking them together until you have all three flowers with a look similar to the pic.
Adhere the flowers on covered them with Collage Medium. When dry, use the paints to add more detail all the parts.
Finish off the canvas by adding dots of Ranger Liquid Pearls in Dark Chocolate, Key Lime, and Wendy Vecchi's Sunflower, and Orange Blossom to the centers of the flowers. Let dry, and then coat the whole canvas with more Collage Medium (Crazing if you have it.).
Supplies:
(Palette Knife, Medium and Small Paint
Brush, Scissors, Two Sided Tape, Side Kick Die Cut Machine, Die Pick)
-4x5 Inch Chunky Canvas and/or Flat
Canvas
-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Texture
Paste: Opaque
-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Paint: Broken
China, Picket Fence, Scorched Timber, Vintage Photo, Squeezed Lemonade, Twisted Citron, Peeled Paint, Rusty
Hinge, Mustard Seed
-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Collage
Medium: Crazing
-Sizzix
Tim Holtz Sidekick Side Order (Spring 2025): Floristry
-Sizzix
Tim Holtz Thinlits (Spring 2025): Vault Noteworthy
-Scraps of yellow and green cardstock
-Ranger Liquid Pearls: Dark Chocolate,
Key Lime
-Ranger Wendy Vecchi Liquid Pearls: Sunflower,
Orange Blossom
-Print Out of Van Gogh 3 Sunflowers In A
Vase
Thank you truly for stopping by here today, and for the support. I so appreciate you all. I will be back again soonish. Until then, I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!
