Cottage & Family:
altered art

I was thrilled to finally be able to attend

one of Lisa of Tarnished and Tattered's classes ~

The one that I got to take was on

Elements of Collage and it was taught at

Cottage Panache in Richland Hills, Texas ~

It was alot of fun to get to soak in some of Lisa's talent !!

She had a sweet box full of treasures waiting

at each of our spots and tons and tons of laces,

trims and ephemera for us to play with ~

( Excuse the not so hot pictures, some were taken with my Iphone )

This is the awesome collage that Lisa did for our sample ~

This is the collage that I did ~

Dawn from The Feathered Nest made

all of the precious shoes ~

They are sooo cute !

Here are pictures of the other ladies artwork ~

I love how they all came out and

it was fun to see the differences in them ~

I am looking forward to more classes soon !

Join us Friday, July 30th for The French Cupboard's

Uncommon Place Theme Party ~

~This month is Altered Art ~

We have a special category that opens just for these events ~

I was having fun working with Beeswax today so I thought I would do a tutorial as I was playing around ~
I just love the look of Beeswax and have been working on some altered canvases ~

~ Altered Beeswax Canvas Tutorial ~

First you decide what paper pieces you would like to use and then you adhere them to your canvas ~ I use Modge Podge ~

Then to give it an aged look take any brown tone ink and just randomly sponge ~ Make sure and do the edges too ~

When you have all of the paper items that you would like on your canvas it is time to paint over it all with your melted beeswax ~ I melted mine in a tiny crock pot and paint it on with a cheap brush because the brush will be ruined ~ the beeswax gives it a really neat look ~ I did not wax over my lace this time but you can do that if you want ~

The next step is to add embellishments ~ I love tea dyed and crinkled seam binding so I added it along with some roses and vintage buttons ~ these are hot glued on ~

That is it !! So easy and fun !

If you want to purchase the finished canvas you can get it here ~

This is another one that I just finished ~