Happy Sunday evening to everyone.  It’s still freezing here, we had about 8cm of snow overnight & it’s set to freeze tonight.  Have to admit, I’m tired of the cold, I need to feel the warmth of the sun.  I have had a busy week, which included going to the Creative Stitches & Hobbies show at Glow, the new events venue at Bluewater, Kent.  I also went to my monthly card making workshop.  More of both in later posts.

On to today’s post, which is a 20x20cm canvas – the first I’ve ever attempted.  It took me about six days to complete & my original plan was to blog its progress each day.  I still may do that, so I’ll just mention some of the features of the finished project.

When I started I knew I wanted the canvas to have an Ancient Egyptian theme & when I remembered THIS project by Glenda Waterworth, using her Texture Fragments stamps, I decided on the layout.

I used the same TF stamp on Hearty clay & hung the brass embellishment - from Calico Crafts, who have a great selection of metal embellies of all kinds -  on a piece of raffia & adhered the blue gem. The gold flower behind is a Donna Downey stamp, which I covered in gold acrylic paint, it symbolises the Tree of Life.  The scroll below the flower contains a secret prayer.  I wanted it to look like papyrus, so I distressed it by scrunching it & blending with distress inks before tying it with more raffia.

The bottle is a Wendy Vecchi art part & symbolises a canopic jar.  I stamped it with one of the Texture Fragments stamps & inked it with DIs & a gold Krylon pen.  The hieroglyphs spell out ‘QUEEN’ & were stamped on to tissue paper, which I then adhered to the bottle & when dry, covered with Rock Candy Stickles.

There is lots of stamping on this canvas; as well the Donna Downey flower stamp & the Chocolate Baroque Texture Fragments, there are the Egyptian image stamps from my stash & Chocolate Baroque’s Punky Romance collection.

So, that’s my entry to the Simon Says Stamp & Show challenge.  It’s not perfect by any means, bit for my first go at a canvas, I’m fairly happy with it.

Thanks for looking & I hope to be back tomorrow with something completely different.  Until then,

Love & light.