Mixed Media: Dwell In Possibility

Hello and welcome! Today I would like to share my latest piece made for April's challenge at Lindy's Stamp Gang.

I was hugely inspired by Olga Ravenskaya's piece made last year and Cindy W's piece made for this month's color challenge at Lindy's Stamp Gang.

I had to order the moon and stars Prima mold from Ebay because no one can seem to keep it in stock, it's so widely popular!! Anyway, I had fun with the creative process of combining all the various elements for this piece.

First part of this process was gesso . . . followed by crackle paste. I then "smooshed" the Tapestry

stencil over the crackle in various places. I then used glitter on the wet crackle paste and set aside to dry.

I worked on my embellishments next. I used Bonjour Butter EP on most of my mold pieces, 

but saved using mint and teal on my moon face.

For my CE chipboard pieces, I gessoed, followed by embossing powders 

Madonna Robe Blue Gold and Cleopatra's Copper.

The background was sprayed using C'est la vie Cerise, Merci Beacoup Mint and Tilt-a-wheel Teal. There are small touches of Bonjour Butter spray all around for dimension and interest. I finished the piece up by combining mint and teal with art stones and spreading that all over.

I did add splashes of white but that is a bit hard to see for some reason.

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Supplies:

Lindy's Stamp Gang:

-Flat Fabio:

--Tilt-a-wheel Teal

--Merci Beacoup Mint

--C'est la vie Cerise

--Bonjour Butter

--Orange Creamsicle

-Lindy's Embossing Powders

--Merci Beaucoup Mint

--Madonna Robe Blue Gold

--Bonjour Butter

--Cleopatra's Copper

Prima Marketing:

--Tapestry Stencil

--Molds Vintage Art Decor, Curio Trinkets, Wings & Gears, Moon and Stars

Finnabair: Art Stones, Melange Pebbles, Glitter Set ABloom

13@arts: Ayeeda Powder Fine Grained Grit

Die cut Orange Blossoms open petals and fillers by Sue Wilson

49 and Market Sea Breeze Blossoms

Tim Holtz' Quote Chips

Blue Fern Studio's Flower

Creative Embellishments 

--Flourish Page Corner 5

--Punchinella Pieces

Stamps - Random

Gesso and Crackle Paste

Mixed Media: Be True

Ahhhh, playing with colors . . . is there anything better? I have fallen in love (again) with deep colors, like blackberry or plum preserves by Finnabair. 

I use a lot of Creative Embellishments in my work, so of course am also excited to play along with their monthly challenges. Without further ado, let me share with you my take on this month's challenge.

Creative Embellishments April challenge

First, I love the color scheme of a deep, rich color "hidden" within all the blue and greens.

In my case, I used Finnabair's Metallique Blackberry.

I have learned that the trick with making a mixed media project is to layer your similar colors.

Here, I first applied Lindy's C'est la vie Cerise and added Blue Hawaiian Blue on top of it. That really gives a project depth and a feeling of movement, if you will.

I have a jar of shimmer flakes that really make a project have a bit of "shiny" to it. 

Hint, when working with shimmer flakes, turn off your ceiling fan.

The twist is to add a wooden piece to your project. I have these CUTE wooden mushrooms by CE and I just had to tuck it in when my greenery.

I finished my canvas with white splashes of Sidewalk Chalk. The quote chips by Tim Holtz are "hands down" the best thing that company has come up with (IMO). I do use quite of bit of TH products, but those quote chips can go anywhere.

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Wooden base - on sale at Target

Finnabair: Blackberry Metallique Paint

Lindy's Embossing Powder:
--Bonjour Butter

Lindy's Starburst:
--Blue Hawaiian Blue
--My Mojito Green

Lindy's Flat Fabio:
--Sidewalk Chalk
--C'est la vie Cerise

Creative Embellishments: bird, frame, mushroom

Blue Fern patterned paper

49 and Market flowers

Spanish Moss

Tim Holtz's Word Chips

Cosmic Shimmer Gliding Flakes

Stencil

Scrap The Boys: Life is Good

Hello and welcome!!! It's that time again for a new challenge at ScrapTheBoys!

A friend of mine said, "Girl, you could have made a bigger cake!" LOL . . . my son really wanted to celebrate his 12th birthday at the Melting Pot and this is how they do it. He just LOVES that restaurant and the close atmosphere the place encourages.

I was hugely inspired by this layout on my Pinterest board.  I wanted to make something simple, but bold! So I grabbed my 49 and Market stamps, gelatos and a smattering of various words stamps from my stash.

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