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 Welcome Jen Starr with her amazing Multi-Media Art Journal!!  She has some beautiful techniques she is sharing with us today!  Jen is a world traveler scrapbook instructor.  You will have to stop by her blog and see all of her projects that she has made that will blow your mind! {click here}

I have to say, I was excited when I was invited to be a Guest Artist for Canvas Corp!

There’s just something about natural canvas that truly inspires me and brings out the mojo. 

I created the base of this 6×12″ multi-media art journal entirely with Canvas Corp goodies…natural canvas, burlap, natural corrugated cardboard, white corrugated cardboard, canvas and burlap shapes…the possibilities are endless!

I began with a piece of 12×12 canvas fabricpage and cut it in half for the front and back covers of the book. I used a damask Glimmer Screen from Tattered Angels for a pattern and sprayed over it with Glimmer Mist. 

To add further depth to my images, I applied some coordinating Distress Ink colors over the mask once the Glimmer mist dried.

On the left side of the cover I gathered a strip of burlap with a DMC floss running stitch and adhered with Facri-Tac from Beacon. Next to that I looped some twine and stitched down with more floss. 

 
Next I had to make a decision which canvas shape to use…which probably took longer than the whole project because there are so many great shapes to choose from!  For this I went for my Gelatos from Faber-Castell (which are awesome little glimmery crayons that blend beautifully with water!) I chose these because I wanted an easy two-tone effect with a darker edge.  I just scribbled loosly where i wanted the color and used a big paint brush with water to blend.  To be honest…I was slightly giddy at how much fun these were to play with on canvas!

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I stamped a title with turquoise and brown acrylic paint on another piece of canvas and stiched with floss over the heart shape. On the right side of the book I stitched one of my Great-grandmother’s big buttons and used a triangle/pennant shaped burlap to wrap around from the back cover to the front for a working button closure.

To give the covers stability, I used a 12×12 piece of corrugated cardboard (cut in half to 6×12).  I tore some of the outer paper off and painted with a cream colored acrylic paint, then dry brushed turquoise paint over that. I used this technique to add color to several different varieties of Canvas Corp’s cardboard for the inner pages (my new obsession is going to be their white cardboard – YUM!)

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I’ll be adding finished pages to this every so often and will share those on my blog as well.

I hope this little bit of inspiration gets your mojo going too!

Jen Starr