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Tuesday, October 16, 2012

The Bewitching Hour

 

 
Hi Friends and Fellow Crafters! It's Colleen from Col's Creative Corner and
I am very excited to be back this month at our Cricut FANatics blog! Thank you Debbie for all the hard work you do to keep this amazing blog running.
 
This month I am sharing an altered canvas with you that was so easy to create! I was looking through the handbook for A Frightful Affair when on page 48, I came across a cat under a streetlight! I love cats, so I found myself on a mission to use that cut! I decided it would be perfect for an altered canvas. There have been many members of the message boards posting wonderful altered canvas artwork. One of my favorites is by Coah's Nana. It's a canvas called Scaredy Cat, if you would like to see it, stop at her Blog. 

I started by tearing some scraps of Halloween paper I had and adding it to the canvas. I smoothed down all the bumps before adding my cuts. I used Martha Stewart Decoupage Glue and Sealer on the canvas and cuts.


I used some ranger paints and stains to add color.


When I cut the image, I decided that I wanted the cat to be more of the main focal point. It is very small in the original sizing and I wanted a bigger kitty! I only wanted to enlarge the cat, but the CCR gave me some trouble cutting my version of the cat with the contours of the streetlight hidden. After arguing with the CCR, I ended up cutting another cat from the RIP cats on page 54. It worked out just fine in the end. LOL!
Here is a pic of the original cat and the larger version that I used.


I added some Martha Stewart coarse glitter to the streetlight's glow and when it was dry, I used some Tim Holtz Distress Ink , Squeezed Lemonade to give it an evening glow.
 
 
I adhered my cuts to the canvas and used some Queen & Co. Trendy Tape to dress the edges of the canvas. Don't you just love Washi Tape?
 
 
I stapled some ribbon on the sides of the canvas so that I could hang it on the wall. The title is from A Frightful Affair, and the bats are from Chic & Scary and Oct. 31st. That is also some spider web Washi Tape running on the corner of the canvas. The word hour started as black and white paper that I colored with a yellow copic marker and inked it with Tim Holtz Distress ink in Black Soot.
 

I added some Jolee's Crystals to that cat's collar and a spider web from Chic and Scary.
 


 
I went back and I added glossy accents to the cat and bats. It was very damp here today, so the Glossy Accents isn't fully dried in the 1st picture. I sealed the canvas with Liquitex Matte Finish.
 
Here is one final look at the canvas.
 
 
When I received my Expression in 2008, I would have never imagined that I would be creating altered art with my cartridges. I thought it was just for scrapbooking. Silly me!
 
Thank you so much for stopping by the blog today! Happy Crafting!
 
Cricut Info & Supplies Used:
Designed By: Colleen McCauley
Cricut Machines Used: CCR, Cricut Anniversary Expression 2
Project Type: Home Decor
Project Theme: Halloween
Cricut Cartridges Used: A Frightful Affair, Teresa Collins Chic & Scary, October 31st
Supplies Used: Artist Canvas (8x10), Cardstock and Halloween Papers from my stash, Ranger Adirondack Acrylic Paint Dabbers, Time Holtz Distress Inks, Tim Holtz Distress Stain, Copic Markers, Jolee's Crystals, Trendy Tape, Ribbon, Martha Stewart Decoupage Glue, Ranger Glossy Accents and Liquitex Matte Gel to seal the canvas.


24 comments:

  1. What a great cut and love what you did with it!

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  2. Love all the details! Thanks for sharing!

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  3. Wonderful project - it has such great artistic flair! I love your layers of detail, use of ink and other mediums, and your focal point cat is great. I really learned a lot from your post! Thank you for the tips and techniques and sharing a wonderful wonderful project! You have inspired me!

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  4. Colleen~ this is wonderful!! I love all the details, textures and elements of your canvas.

    And who knew one or more silly little machines would be so influential in our lives? Crazy isn't!

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  5. nicely done ladies....I love them!!!!

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  6. Very Creative! Love how you have expanded the use of your expression to create such an outstanding art project!!!

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  7. What is just genius here is that this kind of project, with its color process and textures has an unsettling effect that is magical for Halloween. That feeling that you have to look deeper and figure it out is just perfect for this! I love that cat cut too... kind of reminds me of something from my childhood... maybe a mixture of my memory of the 1965 That Darn Cat and something my mom had in our home. I am not sure but there is definitely a bit of nostalgia.

    Love your post and all the tips and techniques! That really helps and I so appreciated it!

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  8. Beautiful project! I have always wanted to try this. Now maybe I will.

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  9. Awesome canvas!! I love this cut and plan to use it on some cards. TFS!

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  10. I love this! It's fabulous!! The lamp light with the sparkle, the kitty and its collar. Love it all!

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  11. This is awesome!! I especially love how you did the street lamp glow...how cool is that???! I think I'm gonna have to try one of these canvas projects...just as soon as I get up the nerve :P ! Thanks for the inspiration!!

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  12. This is so adorable!! Totally cool!!

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  13. Wow, this is awesome! Love the cat and how you did the lamp glow. Lots of texture and details in this, it's really a great piece of art!

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  14. Wow, nice job on the altered canvas - love how it turned out and all the fabulous details. I'm too leary to try anything like this.

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  15. This is just awesome! That cat is also one of my favorite images on this cart. I love all of the texture that you gave this canvas!

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  16. Colleen, I love all the layers you have on this canvas. YOu have so many wonderful deatils!

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  17. Love, love, love that cat! I may have to dash out and get that cart now! Good job!

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  18. Wow, what a wonderful canvas. I love all the details and use of ink. Fabulous!

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  19. What a fun project! Love the colors and details. Perfect for Halloween.

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  20. Beautiful. Love the canvas work. Great job.

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  21. ooooh, how spooky. I love this canvas. Thanks for sharing it with us !

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  22. Wonderful canvas Colleen! It truly is amazing the diversity of projects we can come up with using our cricuts! I too love to combine the paints and inks and glitters with the cuts to come up with "works of art". You did a FABULOUS job on your canvas. Lots of texture and detail. Love it!

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  23. This is by far my most favorite image - the cat under the lightpost! I didn't think that mixed media was for me but Colleen, you may have changed my mind! This piece is amazing

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