Imagination

Hello crafty friends!  I'm here today with my last Guest Designing post for We Love 2 Create.  Thank you for the opportunity to create and have fun with the rest of the team.  This challenge is about creating with Mixed Media, so check out the other DT inspirations and beautiful projects.

Since it's the first of the month, later I will have my 3 sister blog posts.  Busy day with lots of inspiration.

This canvas will be going to a little boy who loves space, time, and policemen.  I used the new Little Dudes from Polkadoodles called Astronaut.  Usually I like to buy the whole bundles, but you can buy each little dude separately.   The image is colored with my Prismacolor pencils.  I'm really good at fussy cutting, but the balloon string I thought would really stand out if I left white on each side or made the black line thicker.  So, I cut off the string and use some leather cording, punch a hole where the string was being held in his hand.  It worked.

Here's the canvas after spraying with some inks.  The blue has some iridescent effect to it, which is kinda cool.  I used some stencils with molding paste to create a little texture to the background.  Then sprayed the molding paste after it dried.   I think it looks like a night sky, perfect for our little dude.

All the embellishments were first painted with gesso.  The metal pieces, usually I paint just a little, because I want some of the metal to show through.  The clock piece with gears, is a chipboard piece.  After I painted it with gesso, I sprayed it with the same inks.  Then I used different embossing powders to get the effect I was looking for.  Still wasn't happy, so my rub-n-dub paint came out, to rub on top of some of the embossing, along with some gold and silver paint.

Every kid needs to dream big with imagination, that's why I love this quote.  

You can also see the iridescent effect on the canvas.

I found some gems that I thought would look like stars.  **Lesson learned: read the package to make sure you get the right gems.  The black ones were flat backs, the pretty colored ones, were cones shaped backs.  I had to mix some molding paste and lots of ink to match the color of the canvas, this way the cone had something to sit into.**

Here are some of the products that I used in this project.  

thanks for looking and reading :o)

I would like to enter my canvas in the following challenges:

• Altered Eclectics: June Challenge for mixed media
• Classic DT Challenge: #25 Anything Goes
• Colour Crazy Challenge: Week #22 Anything Goes
• Crafty Girls Creations: #48 Anything Goes
• Creative Artiste Challenge: #39 Anything Mixed Media
• The Creative Crafters: #4 Anything Goes
• Tuesday Throwdown: #394 Create Your Own Background
• World Wide Ope DT: #5 Anything Goes

stamps: Polkadoodles: Little Dude Astronaut

embellishments: Tim Holtz: alcohol ink: indigo & pool, bubble stencil, metal gears, word bands, STAMPlorations: bubbles stencil, SnipArt: chipboard, BeadLanding: found objects charms, Findings & chain, Art Minds: leather cord, Glamour Glitz: crystals, Bead Treasures: rhinestones, Embossing Powder: copper, classic pewter, granite, Jacquard: metallic gold paint, Inka Gold: platinum paint, Rub n' Buff: metal/plastic paint

Heart Be Your Compass

Hello crafty friends, Happy Easter & April's Fool!!    It's a brand new month already, that's no joke!!!  I'm excited to start this month as a Guest Designer for We Love 2 Create challenge blog.  If you like to do mixed media work, this challenge is for you.  You'll want to check out the inspiration from the other DT members...amazing.

This is my first post for today, but there will be my usually 3 post of sisters blog in a few short hours.

I created a mixed media canvas using Polkadoodles image Skys the Limit.  I purchased the bundle kit "Top Banana Winnie Celebrations Kit 2", but you can buy just the image itself.  The image will perfect for a little girl with big dreams.  In fact, I made it for a little girl in mind....who has some big dreams at a young age.  I colored the image with my Prismacolor pencils.

The first thing I did was ink the blue sky on the canvas, but I wasn't quite happy with it.  I put some scripted tissue paper over it to soften it up some and give it a dreamy look.  Next, I laid down my stencils, it okay to use the molding paste to spread here and there to give the canvas a rough and uneven look.

Next, I sponged some distress ink around the canvas and painted some soft white over some of the scripted areas.  I felt she needed some more clouds in her sky, so die cut clouds out of cardstock, became my stencil for those puffy clouds. The flakes are from an encrusted jewel kit of embossing powders and elements.

Here are a few of the items I used to create this canvas.  Even the embellishments were painted, inked, and sprayed to keep harmony.  The "Archival" spray is great to preserve those images that will be proudly displayed.  This one is made for colored pencils.

A little bit of silver paint was added here and there for shine and depth.

thanks for reading and looking :o)

I would like to enter my mixed media canvas in the following challenges:

• A Inky Mess: #19 Anything Mixed Media
• Alphabet Challenge: A= Anything But A Card
• Classic Design Team Challenge: #24 Anything Goes
• Create & Makes: #20 Anything Goes
• Dare 2B Artzy: Pastel Colors
• Mixed Media World: Anything Goes twist: Spring (facebook challenge)
• Stamping Sensations: One For the Girls
• World Wide Open DT Challenge: #3 Anything Goes

stamp: Polkadoodles: Winnie Celebration Kit 2: Skys the Limit
paper: Recollections: script tissue paper
die-cut: MFT: clouds
embellishments: STAMPlorations: bubbles stencil, Folkart: lovely floral stencil, the Paper Studio: poppies & paperie petite flowers Prima Flower, 3GJ: ribbon, Vintaj: metal dragonfly charm, Recollections: wooden bird, Bead Landing: charm (quote) & found objects (key),  Momenta: metal flower, Stampendous: frantage encrusted jewel kit: rose color fragments,   twine & buttons from stash