New Challenge with More Mixed Media~

Hi everyone!! :)

Today starts up a new challenge over at More Mixed Media Challenges! This month's challenge is to use the color "Red" on your creations. It doesn't have to be all red but we would like to see some of it on your creations. However, using this color is optional. :)

I created a Valentine canvas home decor piece. Here it is:

   

I started with an 8 by 8 blank canvas. I used some white gesso to coat and then took some white tissue paper, crumpled it up and adhered it down to the canvas with gesso. I mixed some red and white paint to get a perfect soft pink and mixed it with some texture paste. I spread this all over the background and added in a little bit of red and pink glitter. Subtle so that the background wasn't overpowered by glitter. I also took some fired brick ink and went around all four edges of the canvas to bring in that red color some more. You can see the background below.

I used a Prima doll stamp, stamped on book paper. Stamped her clothes portion again on pattern paper from an old MS paper pad. I paper pieced the outfit on her after using some distress inks on her body. Added a heart jewel to the center of her belt. Added in a face for her and some highlights using my white gel pen. Adhered her to a strip of burlap/lace trim and hot glued it down. The music note is a stamp by Heidi Swapp. I inked it using vintage photo distress ink. Added in some fire brick as well. Stamped the words, "Sweet Valentine and Love" to this piece. The stamps were from a MCT stamp set. Adhered this to the back of a wooden frame that I painted red. And added some lace to the back of it on three sides. Hot glued this frame piece down on top of a piece of book paper that I tore the edges on and distresed, then hot glued this piece down to the canvas.

Now the embellishing part! I took some metal pieces, a large and a small frame, a key, a keyhole, a number brad and a heart shaped metal piece and I gesso'd each piece up to distress them. To the top of this frame piece, I hot glued a metal frame that I glued some pretty paper to the inside. To the top if it, I cut off the "legs" of the brad and adhered down the number "14" in honor of Valentine's Day. Above this at the very edge of the frame, I hot glued the key. To the key I added a pink heart jewel and some pink paint around certain edges. I hot glued the tip of the key to the keyhole that I painted red and then glued this down to the canvas. 

To the bottom of the frame, I added various sized hearts that I cut from the pattern paper. To the right of the hearts, I added in a metal heart frame that I added a pretty heart to the inside. Closer toward the doll's feet, I added in some flowers that I added glitter to using my Spectrum Noir clear sparkle pen. I also added in there, a double heart charm that I painted pink. Then I took a few tiny glitter hearts that I cut out from the pattern paper and glued them down in various places.  I took a pearl brad, cut off the "legs or prongs" off the back, and adhered it to the very top of the doll in the corner of the canvas and adhered the heart shaped metal piece that I painted with white and different shades of pink to the top right of the doll. And last but not least, I took some gorgeous vintage lace and added some trim to the very bottom of the canvas piece. I hope you like it!

I love it and I have it hanging on my wall! 

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Please stop by the More Mixed Media Challenge Blog to see what my design team sisters

 have created with this happy color and link up your own creations!

Until next time~

Enjoy life's blessings~

New Challenge at More Mixed Media-

Hi everyone!! :)

Today starts up a new challenge over at More Mixed Media Challenges! This month's challenge is to use the optional color of "Purple" on your creations. It doesn't have to be all purple but we would like to see some purple color on your creations. 

For my project, I decided to create an art journal page. I am very new to art journaling with only 3 double pages under my belt. But this is my very first art journal page where I literally took a pencil to sketch out my drawing. I am NOT good at drawing at all with a pencil, but I attempted it and I hand drew this entire page and then once it was completely finished by sketch, I took some paints and started to paint it all. I used various paints and white gesso. The vase was the hardest part to do because I wanted it to look like a clear glass vase with water in it. So I took white gesso and very light gray and blue paints to create the water and clear glass look. I added a bit of brown to also reflect the table inside the clear glass vase. I think that I was able to achieve the look pretty well, considering this was my first time trying to work on something like this. So the page is supposed to show the florals on a nice wooden table up against a wall. I also took some Dina Wakely scribble sticks to do the florals along with some paints for accents. I also took my Prisma colored pencils to do some shading on the leaves. The title was done using my copic multi-liner and my FB artist Pitt brush in black. I also took my white gel pen for hightlights on the florals and the letters in the title. It is not perfect, but it completely screams hand made and that is what I love about it. I am so happy with my very first completed sketched/painted drawing. Well that is it for today! Hope ya like it and that I can inspire you to hand draw your own art journal page!

   

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Please stop by the More Mixed Media Challenge Blog to see what my design team sisters

 have created with this happy color and link up your own creations!

Until next time~

Enjoy life's blessings~

Let's talk Pink! New Challenge at More Mixed Media Challenges!

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Hi everyone!! :)

Today starts up a new challenge over at More Mixed Media Challenges! This month's challenge is to use the color "Pink" on your creations. It doesn't have to be all Pink but we would like to see some of that color on your creations. 

  For my project I decided to go ahead and make a couple of tags. I haven't made any tags in awhile and my time this week was limited. I took some distress inks (picked raspberry, tattered rose, & wild honey) to create my background. Took my Dina Wakley scribble sticks and edged the tags with black. The tag in the background is a bit different from the other. I took some magenta pink, blackberry and turquoise scribble sticks and created some polka dots to the background, then I created loopy borders in magenta pink on the tag closest in front. Both tags were stamped using a Heidi Swapp's Music Notes stamp in black archival ink.  This stamp is a 6x6 and is gorgeous! 

   

I also colored in the circle frame medallion around the face in magenta pink and the face in white. I also highlighted the music notes in white to make them stand out more. This was done on both tags. For the background tag, I had added a guitar that I had already cut from a long time ago. I just added some magenta pink to the inside scrolls and also added in some glossy accents. To the top, I added some pink ribbons and added a pink bow to the guitar. For the tag in the front, I added some gold and rose pink glitter flakes and some pink fringe yarn to the top. I also added a cute pink bow using some pink floss string. Added glossy accents to the medallion on this tag as well and added a Tim Holtz ideaology plate to the bottom of the tag that says, "Reality has limits, imagination is boundless". Well that completes my tags! Hope you like! 

I would like to enter into the following challenges:

A Vintage Journey

Crafting with Friends #42
Creative Artistes #26
Polkadoodles week 18
PDE Linky AG
Simply Papercraft #46 

A Bit More Time to Craft #43

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Please stop by the More Mixed Media Challenge Blog to see what my design team sisters

 have created with this happy color and link up your own creations!

Until next time~

Enjoy life's blessings~

A little mixed media & some news~

Hello my friends!

I have been holding something in for awhile now and I'm so happy to finally be able to share it with you. I have been accepted as one of the newest designers on the More Mixed Media challenge blog! I am super excited about this and I thank Lozzy so much for choosing me to be on this amazing team! So with that being said, today starts a new challenge! The challenges are on the 5th of each month so mark your calendars!! So for this lovely month of March, the challenge is anything goes with the color green! So cool right? You can create what you want but just use some green somewhere on your project. :)

Want to see what I made? You will literally be shocked! Yep, shocked. I made a home decor piece. I found an unfinished wooden tissue box at a consignment shop about a week ago for  $2 and I knew I had to grab it! My only mistake was not taking a photo of it first before I started to work on it! But I did remember to snap photos as I started to work so here ya go!

This is the first picture I remembered to take. I was just starting to paint the box in white gesso. 

Here it is all covered in white gesso and drying. 

I took some shades of green gelatos (sorry don't know the names) and a couple of golden colors and started to color on the tissue box top. I used a baby wipe to blend the colors together. I continued adding color until I got the look I was going for. 

In this photo, I have already added the patterned paper to all four sides of the box. The paper that I used was very old and from my stash. I honestly do not know who made it but it is gorgeous and has a "hunter" green color going through it and it is very sparkly in some areas. Love it!  On the top of the box, there are some strips of paper that were from the same paper collection that I adhered down. To the sides of the paper on each side, I added some white gesso to give a "messy" look and I also added some rub N buff gold leaf. 

Here is a closer look at the "messy" of the gesso and gold leaf. And as you can see, I also added this beautiful lace trim all around the box. This lace was also in my stash. :)

This is the box all finished up now. This is the back side of the box and now you can get a better look at the patterned paper that I used. You can also see the gold leaf and gesso throughout the sides and now you will start to see how well this box turned out in the next couple of photos. 

Here is the front of the box. .... :) 

Notice the beautiful florals and that metal embellishment? You will see a better view in this next photo ....

Here is the top of the tissue box all finished!!! 

So if you look closely, you will see some "netting" right around the opening of the box, where the tissues come out. This was some netting tulle that I had and I decided to use it. I thought it would give a nice texture and it sure did! I also added the metal vintage bicycle and the metal vintage key (it is tucked in with the florals next to the bicycle) for a little more added interest. The florals are all from Wild Orchid Crafts and the metal pieces came from Live & Love Crafts. I added in a few pearl sprays as a personal preference and those are also from Wild Orchid Crafts. If you look closely, you will also see that I took some of that same patterned paper and added some to each side on the top of the box. I just love the flourishes and the natural sparkle in the paper! It is hard to see but trust me, it is very pretty and sparkly!

Here is a closer look at the metal vintage bicycle and that pretty netting tulle that I added around the opening of the box. You can even see the sparkle in that pretty green flourish in the patterned paper a little bit! I also added some green Viva pearl pen to the bicycle to bring in a little bit more of that green color.

Here is the floral cluster next to the bicycle. This is where I have that little metal vintage key tucked in. I added various sizes of flowers, making sure to incorporate some green ones for our challenge!

This is a photo of the floral cluster on the opposite side of the box on the top corner. It gives you a closer look and if you look carefully, you will see those green patterned paper swirls in the background and how they are glittery! I also used my Spectrum sparkle pen in clear, to add glitter to my flowers. Here you can see how they are so pretty and sparkly!

Well my friends that is my mixed media project for you for today! I truly hope that I have inspired you to take something unfinished and make it into something beautiful! It is definitely OK to make something 3D or for the home sometimes! I had to much fun creating this tissue box that it has made me already think of what I want to do next! It was quite a good feeling and a nice surprise to make something other than a card or tag. :)
 Here are few more photos!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Please make sure to stop by the More Mixed Media challenge blog and link up your project using the color green! You have 4 weeks to complete a project until the next challenge starts. Remember, a new challenge starts every  5th of the month. And Lozzy the owner, generously gives 3 winners a choice of 3 sets of her digital papers!! And her papers are awesome! And each month, there will be a top 5  favorites in addition to the main winners! So make sure you play along with us! I cannot wait to see what you make!!

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Catch the Bug-March AG

Allsorts #405 Spring
Crafty Friends #52
Imagine That-AG
Scrappers Delights #64
SOSS #79
Altered Eclectics
Classic DT Challenge #12
Craftaholics-March Use Green
Crafts and Me Springtime Challenge
DL Art Thankful Thursday #199
Eclectic Ellapu-Spring
Marianne Design Divas #14
Pink & Main #19
House of Cards- Photo Inspiration

Until next time..

Enjoy life's blessings~