Mounting the beaded postcards
Technique Tuesday!
I used 12″x24″ gallery-wrapped Frederix canvases to mount my Bead Journal Pages. Each page is 6″x4″, so this left plenty of space around each.
Materials and Tools
3 gallery-wrapped canvases
Golden’s acrylic paints
Sponges
Waxed paper
Beading thread
Beading needles
- Arrange beaded cards as they will be on the canvases. Mine are arranged by month: otherwise I may have grouped the colors somewhat differently.
- Test the colors that you plan to use. I only ended up using one color on each canvas, despite the mottled look that they have.
- Sponge on a first thin layer of color. Apply it in wide sweeping circles. As soon as it’s tacky dry, apply a second layer, not covering the canvas evenly, but allowing darker spots to form. I used slightly smaller circular sponging to accomplish this.
- Let them dry at least overnight so that your work won’t stick to the acrylics.
- Pin the pages in place and stitch them on from the back. Heavy pages will need extra stitching spots to avoid drooping later on.
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7 opinions for Mounting the beaded postcards
Timaree (freebird)
Aug 12, 2008 at 9:41 pm
They turned out very nicely. It sure makes a wonderful set.
Joni Owens
Aug 12, 2008 at 11:55 pm
Cyndi, these look fantastic! Great job.
Cyndi
Aug 13, 2008 at 9:39 am
Thanks Timaree and Joni! Timaree, are you going to stitch all your circles into a quilt? I can’t remember what you were planning…
Timaree (freebird)
Aug 13, 2008 at 9:17 pm
My circles will be blanket stitched onto a larger felt background with some additional circles for filler. It will be a large “penny rug”. Inflation, you know, lol.
debe
Aug 14, 2008 at 8:25 am
That is so beautiful.
I am hopping around with more ideas from your projects then I have time for.
Fantastic
Cyndi
Aug 14, 2008 at 8:42 am
That will be perfect, Timaree! I hope you’ll post about it when it’s done…and let me share it here too :-)
Cyndi
Aug 14, 2008 at 8:42 am
Debe, thanks! It’s always better to have too many ideas than not enough, they say (who is this *they* anyway?) LOL!!
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