Make A Wish

I've been playing at dressing up dolls today.  This one normally has a short dress but I wanted to collage a long dress for her.  The colour scheme for the card comes from A Mixed Media Colour Challenge:

I'm also entering it into Seize The Birthday challenge, with toppings:

To use the colors of FALL on your project!

It's not often that brown is the main colour on a card, particularly a female card, but I liked this background paper.  I softened it up with some Picket Fence Distress Stain and some chalk inks stencilled through some punchinella.  Made the long skirt from torn papers and made word blocks from a sentiment, drew round them with a .005 pen, added some Walnut Stain Distress Stickles and some Prima Marketing Got Flowers, with Liquid Pearls centres.  Here's a close-up:

I like how the Distress Stickles looks like tiny ink splats on the sentiment.  I put some on the bottom of her skirt but it looks like she took a short-cut over the fields.

Dreams Come True

So I've been playing with the Gelli Plate again.  This time using red, white and blue (and pink), which isn't a combination I'd normally go for, but I wanted to play along with A Mixed Media Challenge where the colour theme is pink, red and light blue.

The pattern on the background is from an embossing plate, and the stamp is by Neat & Tangled.  I laced some baker's twine around the heart for a bit of interest/texture.

It's All About Today

Another excuse to get messy with A Mixed Media Challenge.  This time the colour scheme is yellow, pale pink and peach.

I used acrylics to paint the canvas yellow, white and pale pink, then painted a peachy flower and added some watercolour pencil shading.  The images and text are stamped onto tissue paper then pasted on with watered down PVA glue.  Added a bit of Frantage for texture and Stickles for the fairy wings.

Unsettled-Showers - Paper Artsy Words Plate 3
Fairies - Lindsay Mason
Leaves - Lavinia Stamps
It's All About Today - Hero Arts C2738

Mixed Media Book

This is my second post today.  Click here to see the tag for this gift.

There's a new challenge started called A Mixed Media Colour Challenge, and the little mixed media "artist" in me did a little jig - an excuse to get messy!

I made this book as a commission for an 18th birthday present.  I made the covers from chipboard and applied a layer of gesso before applying three layers of white acrylic paint.  I then painted on streaks of pearlised pink paint.  I stamped some images onto white copy paper and painted a wash of pink pearlised paint over them, cut them out loosely and stuck them onto the front and back covers.  I stamped some more images using Versafine Onyx Black.  Next time I would use Staz-On because the ink didn't dry on the white paint and I smudged a couple of times.  But it all adds to the grunginess ;)  I sprayed the covers with fixative before assembling.

I made several pages for the book from white card, and interspersed with tags made from Tim Holtz double sided DP.  I added stamped images and wise words throughout the book in Versafine Smokey Grey.  Then I assembled the whole thing into a book using my Bind It All and silver comb binding.

I added dimension with a zigzag of silver glue and some pink Pebeo Gloss Touch.  Tied various ribbons and threads to the spine, added some silver beads and two silver ladybird charms and sequin ribbon (you can see the pearl lustre better on this photo than in the last post).

Here's the back cover:

Stamps: JOFY, Stampers Anonymous, Urban Beat, Urban Life