I think I can, I think I can, I think I canvas...?

And I'm gonna need it!

A quickeroo post today - soooo busy with many things going on at once! Between Chalk Painting projects at work and Chalk Painting Projects at home, and Chalk Painting projects for my shop (yes MY SHOP!!!) and blogging and and thrifting and antiquing and crafting and wedding planning and and and.... Ah! *deep breath* I love my life! ;-)

Here are my latest creations with Chalk Paint - painted canvas! Yeah, who'd ever think of painting canvas with (of all things) - PAINT!?!?! The nerve! Well, this chicky, that's who! These canvases were created as not only artwork but as a window display for the shop I work at - Piorra Maison in Pointe Claire Village, Quebec.

I used simple paper print-outs of inspiring words and photocopies of old botany and biology images (in this case moths) and glued them to the painted canvas (which had been painted with Antibes Green and Florence Chalk Paint by Annie Sloan). Once glued in place I waxed over top with Clear and Dark wax to give a nice patina and then highlighted some areas in gold gilding wax.

These were all created for a St-Patrick's themed window display (as you can tell) - hence the green and gold!

Here's the finished product - everything green and spring-timey!

My two latest creations are more spring-inspired than St-Patty's (and consequently my favourites from the bunch so far! I want to keep them!)

The Original 'Tweet"

I created the colour on my birdie one by mixing 1/4 Florence with 3/4 Cream - it created this stunning sea sky blue.

Lastly I used the classic 'Crackle" technique on a canvas and waxed it up to look authentic and old - it now looks like an aged oil canvas painting from some sub basement in Renaissance Italy! I free-hand cursive wrote 'Vintage' just for fun.

And there you have it, oozing creativity from everywhere and I love it!

By the by, the big news iiiiiissss....

OUR ETSY SHOP IS NOW OPEN FOR BUSINESS!!!! YAY!!!!!

Please visit our shop HERE

For now there is a selection of my hand-made jewellery, pieces inspired by the ones featured in a previous blog post I did, which you can read here.

I have many goodies to list; hand made crafts, vintage finds and much more! I will be working on shipping to the US and on accepting different modes of payment (for now it's only PayPal).

Thank you all so much for your support! It took me long enough to get my act together but now I truly feel in a position to hit the ground running and really enjoy this endeavour!

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I think I can, I think I can, I think I can... and you can too!

Love from,

The gal at The Clever Cottage!

xox