Have you ever collaborated to make a card?! I recently did just that with three stamping friends and together we created this gorgeous card! Let me tell you about it! I started the card (see below) and mailed it to Lynne. No one knew who would get the card next and after we each added our touch, we snapped a picture and mailed it onward!
Lynne chose the perfect image to go with the soft spring colors! I’m loving this more and more! That ribbon next to the burlap is so unexpected and such a lovely contrast of textures and styles!
Theresa was the last one to receive the card and said she was a but unsure of how to finish it with a bang! But she nailed it! I’ve never used micro-beads before and I love the additional texture they contribute to the card!
I love all the vertical lines in a row; the beads, the twine, the rose stem, the ruffle and the burlap. And Hope accents it all beautifully and horizontally! Here’s a final look at our creation! I hope this inspires you to choose some friends to collaborate with too! Thanks for visiting!
Welcome back! As promised, here’s Part Two of my Mixed Media Canvases series! I can’t decide which of the canvases I like the most! But why choose just one?! I love them all, each for their own beauty and style! The style of this canvas is definitely vintage/feminine and a little shabby-chic! This time I began with an 8X10 hard canvas board, and coated it with a layer of tan craft paint. I then tore up some patterned papers and glued them down with Mod Podge. You can still see the striped piece toward the bottom and the vintage book page near the center top.
Again, I forgot to get my camera set up in order to make a video and now I have to try and recall what on earth I did to make this! Yikes! I think that, after applying the torn pieces of paper, I just started using stencils and stamps to embellish the background. In this section I stamped out Tim Holtz’ Flower Garden blossoms and heat-embossed them with Brutus Monroe’s Coffee Grounds embossing powder. The butterfly ephemera was given to me by my crafty friend, Theresa! The sentiment is also by Tim Holtz and I heat-embossed it in white.
I found the scroll-y die cuts in my stash, and added them with more Mod Podge, then smeared paint over them. In the center of the frame is another piece of ephemera from Theresa. I stamped and embossed Vintage Note from Stampendous over it. I love the white against the dark frame, don’t you?
The larger white die-cut has a coat of Martha Stewart Pearl White craft paint, then some gray rubbed over it, and finally, another word stamp partially impressed onto it. I painted my blossoms with Gansai Tambi watercolors.
Along the top and sides, I stamped Lace Borders from Stampendous, using Versafine Onyx Black ink, and added another stencil impression with pink paint. How about that lovely textured paper in this picture?! I didn’t really know it had that texture till I smeared paint and ink over it!
I really like the dimension that the raised frame die-cut adds. I can’t wait to make some DIY gesso this weekend and add more texture and dimension to my next canvas!
I’m sharing this canvas even though it’s not mixed media. I got a wild hair idea to pull out my alcohol inks and ended up making this instead! And I’ll write yet another post with more pictures to share the process for it! Thanks again for stopping by!
I’ve been on a mixed media kick lately after seeing the beautiful work done by Afia from CraftyMe! Be sure to take a peek at the gorgeous mixed media projects on her blog! I was so inspired to get messy and do some of my own! This is the first I did in my series of four (so far!) and it was a 5X7 canvas stretched over a wooden frame. I started the process while it was still on the frame, but then removed the canvas so I could lay it flat to work on.
Sadly, I didn’t think to make a video of my process, so I’ll try to share the general idea of how I made this via the photos! To begin, I prepped my canvas with a coat of plain ol’ white craft paint and dried it with my heat tool. I then began to layer on stencils, using teal, black, rusty orange and white for the most part. I tried to arrange the images in an eye-pleasing format. I heat-embossed the floral spray (Demure by Penny Black) in black onto the canvas then painted it in with Gansai Tambi watercolor paints.
The last two steps were to stamp in Versafine Onyx Black ink the vintage-y styled word stamp, then I heat-embossed in white BLESSED onto the canvas. I LOVE how this came out and jumped right into making my second one!
Again, no video!! DUH! But I created this in much the same manner and removed it from the frame. I coated the canvas with a layer of tan craft paint, dried with a heat tool then started layering on stencils, using gray, black, red, pink, teal and white craft paints. I have a number of stencils which I collected a few years ago when I got into making Gelli prints . The large blossom is from a stencil I made using a stencil cutter which my husband bought for me back then!
This part is quite textured because I tried to add a stenciled design using Thermoweb’s Transfer Gel, then changed my mind and scraped off most of the Gel which had already begun to dry. I don’t mind that it left some behind as it added great texture!
I stamped this script stamp using Versafine Onyx Black ink. I love the texture of the canvas!
This is another script stamp which I stamped with Versamark then heat-embossed with clear powder. I think it’s cool that it’s translucent! I’m going to end this post here but watch for Part Two in my Mixed Media Canvas series! Thank you for visiting! 🙂
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