Trust Your Heart Mixed Media Canvas

Hello! Today I would like to share with you my latest piece for the Mixed Media Place mood board challenge. I was hugely inspired by this piece made by Mallika Kejriwal.

MIXED MEDIA PLACE CHALLENGE

I was at a scrapbooking retreat with my sister and had to go shopping within the local store to make this piece. I was geeked out to find the laser cuts by 49 & Market and coordinating flowers by Prima. But for the most part I was limited with my other products that I took with me, which did not include my entire color supplies.

I used my favorite stencil, brick wall, and Finnabair texture paste white sand to get started. I then layered Lindy's Merry-Go-Round Green and Finnabair's Unicorn Hair over the stencil. I added a touch of stamping with Versamark and EP Midnight Gold. I did not want the background too busy. The Tim Holtz's quote chips were the only items I took with me to make a title. So if it doesn't quite "make sense" to you with this piece, that is why.

I'm glad I had certain colors with me for this project, or it would not have been made at all. Being limited at the retreat really made me focus on what I could do, instead of feeling lost within my large stash at home. I did manage to take a lot of my mixed media supplies, but I was choosy about my color stash (cause I didn't want to carry it all with me). I'm really happy with how this turned out and hope you find inspiration.

THANKS FOR STOPPING BY TODAY!!

Supplies:

49 and Market Laser Cuts - Tattered Garden
Prima Marketing Flowers - Orchard Mix
Tim Holtz Quote Chips

Lindy's Stamp Gang:
Flat Merry-Go-Round Green
EP Spanish Moss Green
EP Midnight Gold

Finnabair:
Sparks Acrylic Paint - Unicorn's Hair
Mica Flakes
Art Pebbles
Texture Paste - White Sand

Cosmic Shimmer Gliding Flakes

Moss from a yard sale :)

Metal Embellishments - Amazon

Creative Embellishments:
Mushroom
Leaves
Circle Vine Frame

Brick Stencil

Versamark Ink
Stamp

We Dream In Colors

Hello! I'm very excited to show you my latest canvas following the Finnabair Art Recipe challenge. I have quite a bit of Finnabair products, but Impasto paints are not one of them so I had to improvise for my project. The challenge is to use the color scheme and at least two of the products listed.

Colours of June Art Recipe:

brown, green, blue

Products:

Finnabair Moulds

Art Alchemy: Impasto Paints

Art Ingredients: Mica Powder

Art Basics: Modeling Paste

I was inspired by Love Passionately by Tiffany, with the blues and rusts mixed together.  I will also say that I'm constantly inspired by Nadya Drozdova and Olga Bielska of the mixed media world. I love how these two can bring a range of products to a canvas and it not look like a hot mess, but rather a beautiful piece of art.

When I make a canvas, I want it to be personal . . . something my family and I can relate to. Especially since I don't sell my projects (yet). I had to bribe my son on vacation to let me take a photo of him performing a high side-kick. (There was money involved...LOL.) He can get higher, but he risked ripping up his swim trunks. I'm super-geeked out with how this turned out!! This piece embodies our vacation, my son's martial arts skills and promises of the future. Think of it as a mini-scrapbook page!

Finnabair has moulds that you can make seashells!! Woot! I colored them with Lindy's Blue Hawaiian Blue and followed that up with Finnabair's Old Silver and Antique Gold waxes. Finally, all over the piece I dabbed Finnabair's red rust paste.

Here is the Creative Embellishments steampunk piece I used, colored with Lindy's Cattail Copper Brown. It's not as big as I thought, which is one reason I went with a smaller canvas size. I added layers of Finnabair's Cogs and Wings moulds and melange pebbles on top of it.

The art stones and pebbles are colored with Lindy's Merry-Go-Round Green. The Chicken Wire (reversed) stencil is made with Finnabair's modeling paste and Lindy's Magical Shaker Bratwurst Brown. The title is from a EU paper collection called Stamperia that I picked up at a local scrapbook store.

THANKS FOR STOPPING BY TODAY!!!

Supplies:

Challenge Products:

Finnabair Wings and Cogs Mold

Finnabair Seashore Treasures

Finnabair Modeling Paste with chicken wire stencil

Other Finnabair Products:

Finnabair Mini Art Stones

Finnabair Art Stones (pebbles)

Finnabair Melange Pebbles

Finnabair Wax Old Silver

Finnabair Wax Antique Gold

Finnabair Red Rust Paste

Colors by Lindy's Stamp Gang:

Lindy's Magical Shaker Bratwurst Brown

Lindy's Magical Shaker Bavarian Blue

Lindy's Flat Merry-Go-Round Green

Lindy's Starburst Green with Green Envy

Lindy's Starburst Blue Hawaiian Blue

Lindy's Starburst Cattail Copper Brown

6x6 Mini Chicken Wire Reversed Stencil

Tim Holtz's Tissue Wrap Melange

Creative Embellishments Steampunk Chipboard

Creative Embellishments Seaweed Chipboard

Frame from stash

Straws

Cheesecloth

Stamperia Paper #SBB540 (title)

Paradise

Hello there! For NSD, I randomly won some cut files from The Cut Shoppe! The large paradise title was one of my choices . . . isn't it fabulous!!!

I used my Silhouette and SCAL to cut the file out. I fussy cut a LOT of flowers from BoBunny's Boardwalk and Beach Therapy pattern paper. Hope you are inspired!

P.S. The photos are from our cruise on the Carnival Magic!

THANKS FOR STOPPING BY TODAY!

Supplies:

BoBunny Boardwalk and Beach Therapy paper and stickers
The Cut Shoppe title
Silhouette Cameo
Pretty Little Studio Island Treasure Confetti
Pretty Little Studio Island Treasure Flair
Wooden Embellishments by Creative Embellishments

Scrap The Boys: And So the Adventure Begins

Hello there!! I am sharing my last layout with Scrap The Boys DT today! I have been with Rachel and the team for nearly two years!!! 

This month's challenge comes with cut files by Gwen!!! 

I used Pretty Little Studio's Ain't Life Grand paper and embellishments for this layout. I also used two of Gwen's files for this . . . her background file and large adventure title.

Thanks for stopping by today!!!