MIUCB #78: Mixed Media Garden

 Hello Crafty Friends!  

This post is for MIUCB, Mixed Media or anything crafty goes.  I love doing mixed media crafts, just because it's fun getting messy and just letting the mind be creative.

This is the finish project.

I started with painting the canvas with some different types of paints and then fixing tissue paper over the top.

The butterfly was a wooden embellishment that had been embossed and heavy glitter stones.  The flowers are metal, just make sure put a base coat of gesso paint down, then drop some ink to fill them.

Part of the thinking process ....

The finally project once again.

⦁ paper:  Tim Holtz: collage paper serendipity, entomology

⦁ stencils: Artplorations: Bloom Silhouttes, Tim Holtz: bubble

⦁ embellishments: Tim Holtz: metal floral,distress inks,  K&Company: Blossomwood, wooden butterfly, moss, lace, gems,  Recollections: glitter beads

Mix It Up Challenge Blog #68: Secret Flower Garden

Hello and Happy New Year Crafty Friends!!  Wishing you a blessed and crafty 2024.

This post is from Mix It Up Challenge Blog, for this challenge, we would like to see some mixed media creations.  

This is my inspiration project of mixed media, which I really love getting messy.  Mixed media can be fun and a good stress reliever.

The image is from Alyce at Kit and Clowder, Enchanted Fairy House Door.  This is a monthly pencil class from September 2023.  Colored by me with prismacolor pencils.

I painted the canvas with some gesso white paint, like a primer to get things started.  Using spray inks to achieve the background colors, which I match to the image's background.  Then I used two different stencil with modeling paste to get some added details, which the paste soaks up the ink and blends in nicely (you see in the finished project).

Going through some Tim Holtz embellishments, I found this address label.  Distressed with some inks and placed it surrounded by the moss.

Just some of the added details and sparkle that is needed.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

·         stamps:   Kit and Clowder: Enchanted Fairy House Door

·         embellishments: Range: Distress Oxide Spray Ink, Tim Holtz: Distress Spray Stain, Number Strips, Gothic Stencil  Recollections: Wooden birds, Wooden Keys, Glitter balls,  Ashland: Moss, Balzer Designs: Mini Believe Script Stencil…Flowers: Prima Flowers, the Paper Studio, Wild Orchid

Mix It Up Challenge Blog #38: Flower Mixed Tag

Hello crafty friends :o)  Here's my post for Mix It Up Challenge Blog, where every month we want you to try something new and get your creative mojo moving.  This month we want you to use Acrylic Block Stamping.

Many of my stamps are cling, so I have some blocks for stamping.  I decided to so a mixed media little tag.

I used alcohol inks on the block to create a background.  The tag was painted first, then the block with the inks.  Some scrap papers painted and blocked on.  I stamped a magnolia stamp on the tag and lightly colored it some.

Button, twine, dry flowers, and other embellishments to finish it.

thanks for reading and looking :o)

stamps: Magnolia
paper: scraps
embellishments: button, twine, ribbon, Stampendous: mica flakes, embossing powder, alcohol inks, paint, dry flowers, the Paper Studio flowers: 

Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog: #126: Witchy Heels

Hello crafty friends!   I'm here today with my project for LTSCB, this month is fun.  No cards this month.  Get crafty with your craft items.

We have a wonderful sponsor this month.

winner will receive $12 gift

I have falling in love with mixed media and made a canvas Halloween project using the image Heels Witches Shoes.  The image is colored with my Prismacolor pencils. Using a stencil, distress sprays, alcohol sprays, glitter, gems, and mummy cloth, I can say this project was very simple to do.

Different view to see all that glitter.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

stamps: Bugaboo: Heels Witch Shoe
embellishments: Tim Holtz: bity bats, mummy cloth,  Solid Oak: dragon eyes, Stickles, gems

Mix It Up Challenge Blog #25: Grungy

Hello crafty friends!  It's a new month already and Spring is here.    We have a new monthly challenge at Mix It Up Challenge Blog, this month we want to see some mixed media projects.

 Those who have been following me for awhile, know that I take Kit and Clowder classes.  This was the last project I needed to do for the Mixed Media class.  It was 3 projects using the same image in different ways.  I wanted to be different, decided to use the class project image once and 2 different ones for the other 2 projects.  This image is Christmas Prayer from Saturated Canary, artist Krista Smith. 

Sprayed the canvas first with ink, then laid some stenciling on top in different areas.  Brushed paint around the edges and image (using the dappling technique).  There are micro beads, flowers (painted with the same color paints), chipboard, embossing powered, gold flakes, wire string.   It was nice to use items from my crafting closet.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

stamps: Saturated Canary: Christmas prayer
paper: scraps
embellishments: Kit and Clowder packet: chipboard, flowers, wire string, doily, Recollections: micro beads, Stampendeous: fragments, aged rose embossing, Ranger: indigo ink,

 

Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog #119: Seaside Life

Hello crafty friends!  It's hard to believe it's March.   I'm here today with my Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog, Anything Goes challenge.

We have a wonderful sponsor for this challenge.

Winner will receive $20 gift voucher for the store.

I found these metal plate wall hangers at Michael's and thought they were pretty cool.  I used a sponsor image Seaside Dock to create my hanger.  The image was colored with my Prismacolor pencils.  I painted some of the metal to match the image, then added some seashells, glitter and a little seahorse.

Thanks for reading and looking :o)

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

• Classic Design Team Open Challemge: March #3 AG

stamps: DRS Designs: Seaside Dock
paper: Bazzill
embellishments: Seashells, twine, Spare Parts: sea creatues charm, glitter

Lacy Sunshine: Darkness Before Midnight

Hello crafty friends!  I'm going to be publishing a bunch of posts within the next couple of days.  I've been a little off and need to catch up on things on my blog.

Here's a mixed media canvas a made for Lacy Sunshine for their Halloween in August.

This beautiful image is Lisha the Darkness Before Midnight, that I colored with my Prismacolor pencils.  After some stencils; inks, paints and mists were used for the background.

thanks for reading and looking :o)

stamp: Lacy Sunshine:Lisha the Darkness Before Midnight
stencils: The Crafter's Workshop: mini Reverse Branches
embellishments: the Paper Studio: light pink/yellow daises, Momenta: metal flower, Recollections: vintage pink glitter, Ranger: perfect pearls mist, Bead Landing: cording, Wild Orchid: white tuscany rosebuds::  black paint, alcohol inks

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

Dr Digi: Grumpy Old Man Club

Hello crafty friends!   I'm here today with my Dr Digi post.  Someone was celebrating their 50th birthday and just like women, men don't like getting old either.   I created this mixed media canvas to welcome this man to the "Grumpy Old Man Club" at 50.

The image is Happy Hour Horace and he is enjoying his dark ale..lol.  I also used Grumpy Sentiments Sheet for the sign.   Horace was colored with my Prismacolor pencils, the sign was colored in Photoshop to the colors I wanted.  I used an 8x10 canvas for my project.  To create the background, some stencils with molding paste was used, then sprayed with inks, with the finishing touches of gold and silver ink.  The gadgets around are metal and chipboard, that were gesso first, then sprayed and painted.

I added these charms to remind what we need to do with our lives.  Sometimes we are so hooked in keeping up with the "Jones", we forget to live the lives that really matter to us.  These metal charms were fingered painted with rub-n-dub paints (which is fun to use).

thanks for looking and reading :o)

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

• A Inky Mess: #20 Anything Mixed Media
• Craftaholics R Us: #17 Charm ( I have 4 on my project)
• Crafty Gals Corner: #164 Anything Goes
• Creates & Makes: #21 Anything Goes
• Pause Dream Enjoy Challenges: #17 Anything but a Card
• SanDee & Amelie's Steampunk Challenge: April Anything Goes
• Simon Says Wednesday Chlg: Anything Goes: MFT
• The Male Room: #84 Anything Apart From A Card
• Through The Craft Room Door: Anything Goes: week of April 24th

stamps: Dr Digi: Happy Hour Horace, Grumpy Sentiments
stencils: Tim Holtz, the Crafters Workshop: mini reverse branches
embellishments: Pinata: inks, Ranger: inks, Tim Holtz: distress spray inks, mini gears, gears, typed tokens, Bead Landing: chains, found objects, Recollections: glitter, the Paper Studio: clock & time metal charms, SnipArt: chipboard gears:   gold paint, silver paint, leather cord

Love to Craft! Challenge Blog #21: Hero Warrior

Hello crafty friends!  Today is my 3 blog post for all the sisters challenges, so sit back and enjoy this new month of craftiness.

This post is for Love to Craft! Challenge Blog, as always...Anything Goes.

I colored this image in monochromatic colors based off the Kit and Clowder Mixed Media class.  I love the class image, but wanted to used a different image for the project I had in mind.  Besides, it gives me an excuse to use another Saturated Canary image (Honor) from Krista Smith.

After I colored my image, I tackled the 8x10 canvas (the class uses 5x7).  The project is base off the class, but modify for the size and what I had on hand.  I did order a kit with some of the embellishments used in this canvas, but also used lots of things from my own stash.    The tissue paper position on top was first determined and the I used stencils (yes, I've been gathering stencils to use now), to created texture with molding paste.  Ink pads and paint for the background and embellishments.

One of the paints used was a shiny platinum.  I used it on the background as well as the embellishments and it gives it a beautiful shine and metal look.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

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

• 4 Crafty Chicks: #396 Crazy Egg/Anything Goes
• 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
• Mixed Media World: Anything Goes twist: Spring (facebook challenge)
• World Wide Open DT Challenge: #3 Anything Goes

stamps: Saturated Canary (Krista Smith): Honor
paper: Tim Holtz: tissue paper (from kit), Recollections: printed tissue
embellishments: Kit & Clowder kit: Chipboard, textured ribbon, butterfly button, some of the flowers, a couple of the buttons  My stash: buttons, lace, big flower, little buds, metal heart, black plastic dots, stencils, brad

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

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)

LTCCB - I Give Myself Permission

Hello crafty friends!  You'll be seeing me a lot today with 3 posts.  I'm excited to be on a new adventure with Leslie with this second challenge blog.   Love to Craft! Challenge Blog, will be a month long challenge, this way you can get creative.  With this new blog challenge, we want to see whatever you are crafting up.

For this first challenge, I decided to do a project that has been sitting aside for awhile.  Kit and Clowder's Mindful Me Art Therapy Class, it is a freebie if you want to try and it has great therapeutic information with it.   There's a few pics with this project :o)

I started off with a canvas that I wrapped with tissue paper.  This will give it some texture, this was not in the class, I did my own thing with the canvas part.  I used decoupage glue and sealant for this part.

After the tissue dried overnight, lots of painting, stamping, stenciling, ink splattering, paint splattering, sprayed goosebumps, oh, and more painting to achieve this look.  I did seal it to protect these layers.  There was a lot of drying time in between layers, this is the time you use to get other projects for your canvas done or just watch it dry.

I won some chipboard from Southern Ridge Trading.  I didn't want to use the heart, but I love the little cutout design in the middle.  So, I popped them out and painted them.

After I painted them, I sprayed them with some gold pearl mist.  They will be corner pieces in my finish piece.

Here's the image.  I used the same one from the class, because I like the image.  The image is from artist Yampuff, Artist Chibi.  Even though I don't paint in a dress, I have a long button shirt that could almost be a dress and is spattered with paint.  The image is colored with my Prismacolor pencils and fussy cut out.  Since I knew I wasn't going to use my decoupage sealant on the image and quotes, I used a sealant sprayed made for color pencils.  That way the image is still protected.

Here's my finished canvas piece.  The permission quotes are typed out to what I wanted to be reminded that it's okay or I need to do.   I glued little dragonfly charms on the canvas.  You can see my corner pieces in place.

Here's another close-up of the image and you can see a dragonfly .  The image is actually popped up from the canvas because of all the texture using foam pop-ups.

I added some fancy ribbon, but I made sure I painted a little on it.  Last, I added a charm that I thought seem fitting, after I painted it of course.

Hopefully you have been inspired to create something special and meaningful for you.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

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

• Aud Sentiments - #160 Anything Goes with Sentiment + DT Call
• Classic Design Team Challenge - #5 Anything Goes
• Crafting With Friends - #26 Anything Goes
• Crafty Gals Corner - #82 Anything Goes
• Jo's Scrap Shack - #149 Anything Goes
• Sisters of Craft - August 2016: Anything Goes
• Stamps and Stencils -  Tic Tac Toe (image, circle(s), lace)
• The Pencil Case - wk #25 Anything Goes
• Through The Craft Room Door - wk of July 26 Anything Goes
• World Wide Open DT Challenge - #12 Anything Goes

stamps: Yampuff: Artist Chibi, Unity: plump polka dots, woodgrain script, bitty background
paper: Recollections and Bazzill scraps, the Paper Studio: white
die-cut: MFT: fishtail flag stax
embellishments: Pinata ink, Goosebumps,  Tim Holtz: bubble stencil, lace, Beadlanding: charm, Southern Ridge Trading: chipboard, Recollections: rainbow mini brads, leather, Ranger: goldpearl mist, metal dragonflies.