Life's little Embellishments: Kitchen Corner Wall of Family

Hello,today I am here to share with you, my latest home improvement project. I really did think I was done, after I did the Scraproom,but it took about 1 day, for me to take a look around my kitchen & decide there was to much going on,with all the different colors, through out my LO's against the wall. I had already received the Nyhan Collection from Maja Design,& discovered the grays in the Kings Square-BS,were the same grays, that I used through out the kitchen. So I decided to make all new LO's, for the kitchen, & as I am doing this, I am transferring these LO's to either the hallways or the family room,that also have shadow boxes,but the walls are a charcoal gray.

A before Photo of a corner wall in the kitchen...

A after photo, with LO's using the colors in the kitchen....

King Square-BS

Veteran Ships-BS

Sitting on the Dock

I am using these 3 sheets, from the Nyhavn Collection,for this project. Because I mainly want the gray, as the background,I will not be doing, as much paper layering. I will get my texture through stencils & the DA chipboard.So this is all new to me. I will also be changing all my photos to black & white. My first step,for this project was to go online shopping. I ordered more Dusty Attic Chipboard, the Maja Design, Nyhavn Collection, (I ordered enough,for this project,plus future projects,as it is a limited edition). I also ordered some stamps,stencils,texture pastes & mists or H20,that would be in my color tones. Now I had to wait for my supplies to arrive, so my next step was to paint the chipboard I had on hand. I used my wall paint,for the red,plus I applied a coat of clear crackle varnish. I used distressed brushed pewter stain,paint & crackle on the rest of the chipboard. The chipboard was now ready for a final coat of H20's,or whatever I wanted to apply over the crackle. I also went through all of my flowers,that were to bright for the Maja Collections & dipped them into all the paint colors, that I used in the kitchen (I watered down the paint). Now I was organized & ready for my paper to arrive.....Here is my first project,a canvas using one of my favorite photo's of my boys......

The Dusty Attic used:

Love this,Love That Arrows (DA1074)

String of Hearts Frame set (DA1017)

Heart Arrows #2 (DA1026)

Love This,Love That Arrows (DA1074)

rulers(DA1005)

Film Strip Small (DA0935)

Number Grid Small (DA1071)

stencils used are Tim Holtz, I used Prima texture paste (Graphite)

Here are some close ups of detail.....

To deepen the color of Veterans Ship-BS,I painted on Tattered Angels Indian corn & rubbed in some pebbles chalk...I inked all the edges of the paper using a mixture of charcoal & grey mist,I used a brush to do this....

I used LuminArt' (Jasper Red)H20 over the crackle on the chipboard. The red was still a bit to bright,so I toned with wintermist gray H20,once the red had dried. I used this on all the chipboard in these LO's....

I also inked the edges of the chipboard using a ink pad...

Here is another canvas I did using photo's that were taken the same day as the photo above...

The Dusty Attic used:

String of Hearts (DA1017)

Bar Codes 5pk (DA0624)

Film Strip (DA0934)

Number Grid Small (DA1071)

Hashtag Sayings (DA1076)

The stencils are Tim Holtz & TCW,using Prima Texture Paste Graphite..

The LO is of my oldest son Sigurdur....Sigurdur is now 34 years old.

The Dusty Attic used:

Anchors (DA0558)

Chevrons (DA0992)

Compass Rose (DA0686)

Film Strip (DA0934)

Film Strip Small (DA0935)

Fish net panel (DA0654)

Page Pebbles #3 (DA1107)

View Finder (DA1081)

Zippers (DA0816)

Bar Codes 5pk (DA0624)

This LO is of my middle son Erlendur (DD),he is at home right now,so I asked him what he wanted on his LO,& he choose butterflies,he also likes to garden,so he got flowers on his.DD is now 29 years old.