A Creative Life: Open Your Dreams Mixed Media Canvas for Tres Jolie Kit Club

Thursday, May 15, 2025

Open Your Dreams Mixed Media Canvas for Tres Jolie Kit Club

Hi everyone,

I am back this month with a nice fun little canvas you can create using the both the May 2025 Mixed Media Kit along with the May 2025 Card, Tag and More Kit. This canvas is so fun to create and I like that you are utilizing both kits to create a beautiful canvas that canvas to hang on a wall. I have a step by step down below and a video tutorial with more details. I also have the links down below for you to check out both of these fabulous kits.

May 2025 Card, Tag and More Kit May 2025 Mixed Media Kit

To start out you will need to paint a color on top of the 5x7 inch canvas. I chose to use Buttercream acrylic paint. Let this dry for about 15 minutes.

After the paint dries, apply the Crackle Medium on top and let the Crackle dry for about 10 minutes just to make sure its dried thoroughly.

Next grab your small canvas from the mixed media kit, flip it over and we will use this as a frame. Use the Alcohol Pearl Intense to stain the wood around the outside and inside of the canvas. Cut a small piece of design paper and adhere down inside the canvas.

***You can view the video tutorial for more details**********

Next I used the pretty Double Door ephemera image from the Card Kit. You will score only next to the pillars on the side of each door. This way your doors will open up once we cut the top and midsection.

Next use an xacto knife to cut around the arches only to the top of the pillars where you scored down. And cut down the middle of the doors.

This is how is should look once your done scoring and cutting.

Next I grabbed some flower moss and adhered down inside the frame.

*******You can view the video tutorial for more details**********

To cover the back side of the doors slide the door over the design paper and trace and cut out.

Cut out 4 of these covers for the door. This will make the sturdy.

Adhere once set of the cut out covers to the doors, next add brads to top of the door to look like door knobs and then adhere the 2nd set of covers over the backside of the brads. Adhere on the door ephemera piece to the frame. Decorate the inside with mushrooms and flowers and feathers from the card kit. *******You can view the video tutorial for more details**********

Now the canvas should be dried and I mixed my buttercream paint with the Intense Alcohol Pearl and it made this really pretty mauve color. Take your paint brush and dab the paint on.

*******You can view the video tutorial for more details**********

Let dry for a little bit. Adhere the frame on top of the canvas. Get creative and just let your mind wonder to how you want to create this beautiful canvas. There are ton of ephemera pieces and don't forget the alphabet cards and the playing cards you can cut out from the paper pad.

Here is my finished canvas. I cut out the bunny, cogs and flower from the large hat that the bunny was sitting in. I also cut two of the playing cards from the paper pad. You can see where I added the brads to the front of the doors. To finish it off I did splatter some of the sparks acrylic paint over the canvas.

I also used the new Cloud Words "dream" chipboard on the bottom painted in the sparks paint.

Here are the doors opened.

Close up of the open doors and what's inside.

I hope you enjoyed today's step by step tutorial. I enjoyed created this wonderful canvas for you all. I really like how this turned out and it's just brings a smile to my face. I can't wait to see what you design using both of these kits together to see what you can come with. You can always post your projects on Tres Jolie FB page - Tres Jolie Club Cafe.

Don't forget to post your project on our Facebook Group Page, link is down below. We would love to see what you create.

For more details you can always view the video tutorial process, which is at the top of the page.

Thanks again for joining me, I have all the links listed for you throughout the post so just click on the words and you will be taken directly to the store.

Enjoy and Happy Crafting.