Coffee please - Canvas with two cups of Tim Holtz

Hello All!

This month alongside our Challenge, we are also running a Blog Hop with a Sizzix Big Shot Machine & Die Bundle as the prize. To enter, you must be a Follower of our Challenge Blog and Hop along to each of our Design Team Members Blogs and leave a comment. We will still be running our normal monthly challenge and those who link their Use A Stencil projects will also be entered into our £20 voucher draw. The Winners will be picked at random in early June. So hop on over to Christine's 1st Project - Use A Stencil

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For the May Challenge of the Country View Challenges - USE A STENCIL - I created a mixed media canvas in coffee theme. At the beginning of April we had travelled thousands of miles, first from Luxembourg to the eastern part of Hungary by car, then from Budapest to London and back by air, and finally from my hometown to Luxembourg by car. And during our journeys we often stopped to say: Two double espressos, please! and we really thought meanwhile: SOS!

Now I will tell you how this canvas was created.

I took a primed canvas but I still put 2 coats of gesso on the surface. When it was dry, I used a 12x12 inches (Clear Scraps) stencil to make a striped background. 

I smeared the light blue acrylic paint with a sponge onto the surface.

I extended the stripes to the sides.

With a sponge I rubbed white acrylic paint to the edges.

I stamped the coffee sack and the coffee beads from the set of Stampers Anonymous, Fresh Brewed Blueprints by Tim Holtz (CMS232).

With the StazOn cleaner and a wipe I removed the unwanted elements.

With acrylic paint I coloured the sack and the beans.

I smeared some white acrylic paint on the images to fade it.


I cut out the cups from chipboards and gessoed them. I painted with inks. The die is: Sizzix Bigz Die, Tea Time by TimHoltz (660234). The inks are: Ranger Distress Inks (Faded Jeans, Mowed Lawn), Ranger Archival Inks (Cobalt, Emerald).


Then I cut out the letters with Sizzix Sizzlits Die, Vintage Market by Tim Holtz (656623) and the number 2 with Sizzix Bigz XL Die, Vintage Market ( 658772).


I used the Kraft Core Nostalgic Collections for the letters. 

I added double sided adhesive tape on the back of the cups to attach them to the canvas.

I hope you like it! And this time don't forget to comment if you want to win a Big Shot :-)

Happy crafting to you all!!!