Cheryl Boglioli Designs

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Tuesday’s Misted Sassy Canvas

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Hello everyone.  It’s me again, Cher, from Cheryl’s Window and I am very excited to share my project with you, and I’m going to share it with you with a mini blog hop.   Today, I am honored to be a guest designer at She’s a Sassy Lady as well as at Tuesday Treats.  My assigned dates just happened to coincide, so with the OK from both Sheila and Pam, we decided to make this a little fun and turn it into a mini hop, basically a bounce!  

This was an exciting project for me to create and I truly hope you find some inspiration from it.   It all started because I was really drawn to some of the popular subway art out there, but I knew I wanted to do something just a little different and I wanted to add some color and pop.   I was able to achieve this with my Gypsy, some vinyl, a canvas and some Glimmer Mists.  

So bounce around these three blogs today to see my final project come together.  

We started over at Tuesday Treats with my design work and moved over to She’s A Sassy Lady to see the background start coming together.  Now, I’m going to put all the pieces together to finish my project.
If you happened to start here, please bounce back over to Tuesday Treats to see how this project started. 

My design work is complete.  My background is ready to finish and top with my vinyl layering. 

I took the colors I chose to mist my canvas with and started misting the top with the lighter color and progressively misted the others ending with the darkest color on the bottom.  NOTE:  Canvas is porous and the mists are very wet.  So, from previously experimenting on a trading card size canvas, I knew that the vinyl/mist combo would not create sharply defined masked images.  That was ok, because I really liked the softer watercolor look it provided.

So, this is the completed background.  But, the project is still not done. 
This is another shot of my WORDS layer after all the words were grouped together and then the whole block was then moved up to the edge to save on vinyl again.  I did not change any of the spacing between words here.  These were all placed exactly as I wanted them to be on my final project.  I only moved the GROUP of words to the upper edge of my mat.  I loaded the vinyl on my 12×24 mat and connected it to my Cricut.   Using the same ‘kiss cut’ and procedures as described at She’s a Sassy Lady, I cut out my words. 
I weeded all the background vinyl off my backing.  And if you look closely, you will notice the y in photography is missing.  Had to cut that again since I threw it away removing the negative vinyl.  🙂 

I layered the transfer tape over the edges so that I could peel all my words up together.  You’ll notice the y is now in place.  I love this transfer tape on a roll and that I can just tear it off as needed.   Expressions Vinyl has great prices on this and you can find their link in my left sidebar.   I did need an extra set of hands here since this project was so long.  DH was willing to provide a little assitance to keep me from making a mess and sticking to everything.

I centered my entire word block as desired on my canvas and started rubbing in place.   Be a little careful here because the canvas has some give and there is nothing firm directly behind the canvas in the center.   Carefully remove the transfer tape at the same angle described at She’s a Sassy Lady for this project, making sure you don’t leave a letter behind.  We don’t want any orphan words or designs.

 To ensure better adhesion of the vinyl, I flipped my canvas over and burnished the back of the canvas too.  This vinyl application tool can also be found at Expressions Vinyl. 

Here is another view of my wall where I placed my canvas.  You can see my wine wall to the left.   Did I mention that I love vinyl?  You can scroll back to the top to see the final canvas a little closer.  I really wish I could get the shimmer to photoraph better.  It is subtle but gorgeous. 

I decided to take the small chair out of my studio and place it here.  It looks so nice.  Now I just need a floor lamp and a little bitty side table for me to rest a cup of coffee or tea on.  
So, I hope you enjoyed the little blog bounce today and visited Tuesday Treats and She’s a Sassy Lady as well.   Thanks for stopping by.

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  1. Lori Apgar says

    OMG I don’t know how I missed this one!! This is so awesome!!! Thanks for the inspiration!!!

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  2. Susan says

    The finished piece is beautiful. You did an awesome job of pulling it together and teaching us how you did it.

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  3. Katie says

    This is so fabulous! i Think i need to make one now.
    Don’t forget to put your nook on that table you are adding to the corner. 😉

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  6. Audrey Frelx says

    Hi, Cheryl!!! Hopped on over to Tuesday Treats and Sheila’s to comment on your beautiful canvas!!!

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  7. Lisa says

    Cheryl, that is a beautiful piece of artwork. You must have gotten so much satisfaction to have made it yourself. WOW, love that chair. Great tutorial and loved the little hop. 🙂

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  8. Gramjak says

    Absolutely gorgeous. I appreciate your wonderful technique tips and hope to get up courage to try it. Really love the coloring!

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  9. Brenda says

    Oh it is such a joy to work with canvas and misting! I have had to complete so mmuch design team work lately that I haven’t had the time to jsut play. Looking ofrward to doing so with your fabulous inspiration!

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  10. Jackie says

    This is great! I’m having so much fun playing with canvas too!

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