Nature Collage Panel by Anna-Karin
Hi friends! Happy Sunday! We’re always delighted to welcome back special guest Anna-Karin Evaldsson on our blog! She’s made this gorgeous nature collage panel to share today! Wouldn’t this be a super fun summer project? Read on for all the details, and enjoy!
Hi everyone! I am happy to be back here today with a new tutorial. The sun is shining and I was inspired to create a collage panel inspired by nature. You can make a similar project using many different themes.
This panel is inspired by Tim Holtz new idea-ology products and in particular the Quote Chip Labels. I love the different quotes, sizes and distressed finish of these chips and wanted to use many of them on one project. I created a collage piece with a blocked design, with only the birds breaking the pattern. The background is Tim Holtz Memoranda fabric, which gives the project a nice tactile feel. You don’t have to use the same images, stamps and words as I did and the project can be both smaller and larger. Mine is 10 x 7.5 in.
I thought it would be fun to use fabric as my background instead of paper and picked a grid fabric from Tim Holtz Simon Says Stamp Exclusive Memoranda pack. Glue cardstock to the back with a glue stick. Avoid getting glue where you want to stitch.
Stitch to cardstock with a sewing machine. I decided to use some of the words and numbers from the fabric in my design and framed them with stitching. I started with white thread and stitched around the panel twice, not aiming for a straight line.
The white thread didn’t stand out enough, so I stitch once with a brown thread too.
Stamp two of Tim Holtz Bold Botanicals with Archival Potting Soil ink on Tim Holtz Backdrops Vol. 4 paper.
Color the flowers with colored pencils. I used Prismacolor pencils.
Add shading with a dark brown and a black pencil. I also added highlights with a white gel pen and some scribbles with a black pen.
The Tim Holtz Quote Chip Labels are easy to color with Distress Ink. Apply the ink with an ink-blending tool.
Distress the edges of the flower panels and stitch to the background. I also stitched around the two bird ephemera pieces. The bird illustrations are from Tim Holtz idea-ology Organic Layers. Sand and ink the edges first. For stability, I glued the fabric piece to a canvas board, but you can also leave as it is or glue it to another surface, such as cardboard or mat board.
I added two Clippings Stickers for additional sentiments.
The numbered list on the fabric was used to create a list with the smallest size Quote Chip Labels.
The birds and leafy branches also come from the Organic Layers set, while the number ephemera comes from the Palette Ephemera Pack.
I stitched a frame around the word ‘lesson’ and used it as inspiration for the theme of the panel.
You can stamp the Bold Botanicals with black ink too, but I aimed for a softer look on this project and used brown ink instead.
I hope this tutorial inspired you to play around with fabric, quotes and collage pieces. It is fun to pick words and images and to move them around on the project.
Thank you so much for looking! Happy crafting! –Anna-Karin
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Thanks so much for stopping by, and thanks to Anna-Karin for being our guest!
Awesome creation, love the stitching too!
This is wonderful! Love how the fabric was used as a background.
Gorgeous!!!!! I love the different textures!!!
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