Photo Display Altered Canvas

Having a dancing granddaughter is really inspirational. Her photographs are beautiful pieces of art, belonging on the wall not just in scrapbooks. I've spent some time recently creating altered canvases to display these wonderful photos.

I used Tim Holtz distress ink pads to age the edges of a 12"x12" canvas. I ripped the edges of a decorative scrapbook page and ink those edges too. Using Beacon 3 in 1 glue I adhered the page to the canvas and trimmed the edge with lace.

I cut the parts to make 2 flowers from my latest Cricut Cartridge Flower Shoppe. The parts to the first flower are as follows: Basic 4 cut 3 times in sizes 3.75", 3.25" and 3.0" and Basic 1 cut at 3.25" and 2.75".

The parts to the second flower were cut as follows: Fun 4 cut 2 times at 4" and 3.5" and Exotic 4 cut 3" and finally Fun 1 cut at 3.75".

I cut the leaves using Ruffle 5 at 2 1/2".

I used Beacon 3 in 1 to glue the parts of the flowers together and then I used ink to shade and distress the flowers and used a bone folder to shape them.

I used a large glue dot in the center at the back of the flower to adhere them to the canvas and then I used a hot glue gun to adhere some of the flower petals to the canvas.

I added glitz and a butterfly for trim and my granddaughter's picture looking mighty fine!

 

This canvas was entered in a challenge at:

http://www.hidinginmycraftroom.com/2012/04/himcr-43-april-showers-bring.html