Friday Nights with Friends

I joined Cheryll's blog adventure "Friday Nights with Friends", whereby every first Friday evening in the month we work on a craft and blog about it the next day, with real and/or virtual friends. I'm usually a quilter, painter, and photographer, but my sewing machine packed it in recently and I found a new interest - art canvases and art journals. So last night, I finished a canvas I had started in a class, and it was great fun messing about with paints and glue etc.

 Here's my little craft 'nook', with just enough evening light to see what I'm doing. And a coffee and cookie to keep the creative juices flowing!

 This is as far as I got in class. I played with colour, used some spackle paste for texture, stamped some tissue paper and glued it on with gel medium. The tissue paper needed another coat or two, so that was my next step.

Once the gel medium was dry, I added embellishments. First, a photo of my sister Rebecca in a cardboard frame, then some vines and a flower, dabbed with gold and apricot pink.



And here's the finished canvas, with a few more embellishments. For a first try, I'm quite happy. And the ideas are coming for more....