Mix It Up! Challenge Blog #11: Steampunk Mixed Media

Hello crafty friends!  This is my 3 post day, so enjoy the inspiration today.

This post is for Mix It Up! Challenge Blog, this month is Anything Goes + optional Making Your Own Background.

Here's my project for this challenge.  This is a Mixed Media class offered by Kit and Clowder and this is one of 3 projects you get to created.  You can use any image and product you have in your stash.  I did use the class image, because I already had it and I love this image from Saturated Canary, Krista Smith (even though you only use a portion of the image).  I did order the kit offered by Kit and Clowder, because it had the chipboard, flowers and some of the embellishments needed for the projects (this also keeps you for over buying embellishments).

To create my background, I just use some stencils and molding paste.  I used 3 different stencils for this project.  The canvas is only 5x7, which seems small, but it really worked.

This is my background after spraying with inks, embossing powder and some paint.  I didn't have alcohol spray inks, but I found some small spray bottles for inks.  (You can see the little bottles in the pic below).  All the embellishments had to be painted and sprayed too.

Here are a few of the products I used to create my mixed media canvas.

This is the portion of the image I colored with my Prismacolor pencils.  After coloring, you have to fussy cut out the image.  The one thing that wasn't mention in the class, was how to protect your image or if you really needed to.  I decided to put a UV sealant for pencils over the image.  I thought it might protect it better, especially if you decided to hang it up and proudly display.

I really enjoyed this project.  I got messy (my fingernails are still inked, at least my skin finally came clean) and finally got to use some things in my stash.  There were a few things I wasn't sure what to do with in my stash, like the micro beads that came in the glitter pack.  After taking this class, I think a few more items will be used a lot more.  Sometimes you just need some guidance and be willing to push yourself to learn new things.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

I would like to enter my Mix Media into the following challenges:

• Classic Design Team: #23 Anything Goes
• Crafty Gals Corner: #160 Anything Goes
• Love 2 Create: #5 Anything Creative Mixed Media
• Pile It On: #139 3D Embellishments and/or Stickers/Washi Tape
• Rhedds Creative Spirit: March: Altered Art/ Mixed Media
• SanDee & Amelie's Steampunk Challenge: March: AG-Steampunk/Industrial
• Through the Craft Room Door: 27th Feb Anything Goes
• World Wide Open DT Challenge: #2 February 15th: Anything Goes

stamps: Saturated Canary: Steampunk Style
stencils: Tim Holtz: layering stencils, Folkart: lovely floral
embellishments: Recollections: micro beads, Stampendous: aged rose & aged gold embossing powder, white paint, gold paint, alcohol inks, metal flower  (kit: chipboard wings, flowers (paper, plastic & metal), chain, metal button, doily)