June A Vintage Journey Challlenge - Canvas

Welcome to June and the newest A Vintage Journey Challenge!  This month Nikki is our hostess and she would like us to work with canvas -  here is the challenge in her own words:

Let's work with canvas this month in our vintage; shabby; mixed media; art journaling, industrial, timeworn or steampunk style. It doesn't matter how as long as some canvas is a dominant feature of your project.  Perhaps you may use a canvas in the traditional way or use the reverse to create a shadow box? Canvas boards are fabulous to work on or perhaps you have some canvas sheets which can be cut and adhered to another surface.

I attended my 11 year old Goddaughter Eden's dance recital last week - and wanted to give her something special to remember the day. 
(she was in 10 of the dances performed, can bend over backwards to the floor from standing, do cartwheels across the floor and do full splits! in other words - she is an AWESOME dancer!)

So I made this little 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" canvas for her along with a little easel to display it on!

I have a few photos to share on how I put this together.  My design evolved as I pulled out things I wanted to use on it.  I thought she would like purple and blue colors - so I sponged Wilted Violet and Broken China DOX inks over the canvas.  I flicked water  with my fingers over the inks and dried with my heat tool.   
I colored the dress, hat and shoes of the Paperdoll dancer with my Weathered Wood Distress Crayon - rubbing it around with my finger. (it's a very subtle blue, you can see it a bit more on the close up below.)

I sponged the edges and a little on the canvas with DOX Vintage Photo - rubbing it also with my finger to blend.  I adhered a strip of Chatter Design Tape along the bottom using Tombow Liquid Glue to be sure it held on the inked surface.  (I later added another silver sparkly strip under this one)

I punched a tiny heart out of blue Kraft-Core Core-dinations paper and sanded it slightly.

I added a strip of lace from my stash across the top, personalized it with Eden's name using Label Letters and added the cut up Small Talk Sentiment.   I colored the skin on the dancer my Spun Sugar Distress Marker.  Both the dancer and heart are up on foam dots - I used glue on these as well to be sure they stuck to the ink.

Here you can see the silver Chatter Design Tape strip - it really sparkles IRL!   I sponged the tiny flowers with  DOX Vintage Photo.

Here is the canvas from the sides - showing how I wrapped the lace and tapes around to the back and you can see how the things pop up on the surface.

And here are some photos of beautiful dancer, Eden, at her recital.
With her mother just before the event in her first costume of the night (she had 5!)

With her older brother, Destin, after the event.

Eden is a beautiful young woman, inside and out

and she loved her special dancer canvas!

So please join us at A Vintage Journey - and link up your project using canvas!  Can't wait to see what you create! 

Our gracious sponsor this month is Shimmerz Paints.  One lucky winner will receive a $25.00 voucher to spend in their store.

http://www.shimmerzpaints.com

I'm also linking my project to:

Mixed Media Monthly - inspired by the colors in #33  Sweet Inspiration

Paper:  Blue Kraft Core Core-dinations
Ink:  Ranger Distress Oxide Wilted Violet, Broken China and Vintage Photo.
Accessories:  2 1/2" x 3 1/2" Canvas - Michaels, Idea-ology Paper Dolls, Design Tape, Small Talk, Label Letters,  Ranger Distress Crayon Weathered Wood, Ranger Distress Marker Spun Sugar, foam dots, Tombow liquid glue, mini sander - Ranger, water, heat tool, Heart punch - McGill, flowers - Prima.