A little Tapestry Hoop and a Rubon!

Hi...  Bev here today. 

I challenged myself to really step out of my box when creating this piece. I wanted something different to adorn a small tapestry hoop ... and then it occurred to me.

Rub on resist on canvas might be just perfect for this small  but cool home decor piece.

I wanted to share with you what I created ....

So let's go... rubon on image that will fit the tapestry hoop size in mind.

Now mist the piece.. I used 3 colours on my canvas.

Now take a piece of paper towel and gently wipe

off the misting that is over the rubon.

 Do this to the whole

rubon image... notice it is turning white with only the image showing.

Let the treated piece dry now. I gently heated this to dry but

don't apply too much heat over the rubon image.. you don't want to melt it.

Now the easy part starts..... before putting this into the hoop,

 I ink stamped the sentiment.

Centre the canvas into the hoop.. and tighten the screw to secure it.

Finish it off with some fun accents. On the outer edge I added ribbon and

ended with a tied loop knot to hang it from.

I then added stickles to the edge of the ring and a small button

 and flower cluster was the finishing touch.

Well I enjoyed making and sharing this with you. Hope you'll try

the rubon resist technique on some of your projects....and do come back again.

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Hello there! Today I´d like to share with you a layout that I created based on a scrapbook kit (see picture). My inspiration started from the rub-ons that were on the kit. I love to use rub-ons, always have and always will. I really cannot say what it is with rub-ons, but I just find they are the perfect embellishment as you can use them as little details or even a whole sheet at once. 

(picture and kit by Studio Calico)

Since these rub-ons happened to have numbers on them, they perfectly matched my photo which is one of my DH on his 39th birthday.

Now I have a confession to make, I am a kit subscriber since a couple of years, but I hardly ever use my kits as they are. I usually take one piece from one kit and combine that with another piece from another kit. I often even organize the goodies from the kits into my stash just to use them later in random order. But this time I wanted to use the kit as it is. Someone has gone to a lot of trouble designing and planning these kits, so I thought I´d give it  a try and use this particular kit for this layout. Like I said, it all originally started from the rub-ons :).

After figuring out where to place the photo, I then added the rub-ons and went along from there. I must admit, it was really easy to just grab the goodies that were in the kit and combine them onto this page, because they worked perfect together. The only thing I added to the kit goodies were the big black title numbers. Everything else is from the kit. Oh, sorry, the misting is from my stash too. I added that as an additional detail after finishing the rest :).

Here are some detail photos:

Are you a kit subscriber? How do you use them or do you just hoard them? I hope this post has inspired you to take a good look at your kit stash and dig into it, use it!! That is what it is there for, isn´t it - to get scrapped :). Don´t hoard your stuff, use it - a good motto for today :). Have fun!!

xoxo, Sanna