A Textured Mixed Media Project for Art and Soul Studio

Today is my turn to showcase what I made with taking inspiration 

from the January Mood Board over at

 Art and Soul Mixed Media Blog

As you can see I honed in on the Deer and Trees.

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I started my project by choosing the

Memory Box Garden Birch Landscape Stencil

then started sponging with Tim's Oxide Inks in

Faded Jeans/Spiced Marmalade/Fossilized Amber

Pealed Paint and Vintage Photo

Then with the stencil still in place

 inking my trees in a variety of colours with

Memento Pistachio/Olive Grove/MementoLuxe Northern Pine

Versafine Clair Fallen Leaves

Checking out to see where to place my Deer

This is part of the Tim Holtz Great Outdoors CMS321 set

I purchased from the Art and Soul Studio as are the trees above.

Removed the stencil then

I heat embossed him with Ranger Copper and a second time

with Ranger Potting Soil.

 

Next came texture to the trees with DecoArt Crackle Paint

allowing it to dry naturally.

More texture was added for the ground using

Artisan Powder in Parisan Rosewood

Tim's Distress Stain in Gathered Twigs 

and VersaFine Clair Fallen Leaves

mixed with DecoArt Texture Sand Paste.

and stenciled with Scratchy Stencil by Kaisercraft

Inked the edges then attached to a blue back.

Decided to add a backing with brown card stock

with a Stamperia Formato D (KSD282) stencil

using Nuvo Toasted Almond Mousse.

(Still not sure if I like it)

Added touches here and there for effect on the trees

and on the ground.

The trees were also coloured with an Antique Linen Pen.

Finished with distressing the background .

Main image is popped.

Sentiment is die cut from MFT Stitched Die

heat embossed in white.

A few close ups!

The Art and Soul Studio give away

$50 vouchers to their store for Australian Residents

as prizes and overseas contributors are

invited to be Guests. Why not come join in 

 our Soul Sister's Facebook Group

and add your creation Here

this month and you could be a lucky winner!

Products from Art and Soul Studio are

Tim Holtz Great Outdoors Stamp Set

Stamperia Stencil

Kaisercraft Scratchy Stencil

Artisan Parisan Rosewood Powder

DecoArt Texture Sand Paste

Nuvo Toasted Almond Mousse

VersaFine Clair Fallen Leaves.

Hope you liked my project.

Till next time Cherrio!

A Mixed Media 'Dream'

Christmas is over and goodies put to bed for a while at least.

Time to relax and just play  - in my case to use some new goodies.

I didn't know where this project would lead to so just 

went with what took my fancy!

Funny enough I started two projects and nearly

put this one in the bin as I wasn't happy with the background

but came back to it today and pressed on.

The other item landed in the bin.

I started by adding a couple of patches of Sand Paste

then stenciling the background with

texture paste sprayed with 

Tim's Dusty Concord Distress Stain.

Wet my page then added Lindy's Magical's

in Witches Potion Purple/Freaky Franken Lime 

and Nuvo Solar Flare Shimmer Powder.

That is where I left it overnight.

I decided it needed a little more so

stenciled the middle using Nuvo Mousse 

in Aloe Vera then just  kept adding

different coloured mousses

 some Inka Gold and random script.

Inked water colour paper with 

the same Magical's above and

Starburst Spray in Tiffany Lou Blue.

Stamped my butterflies with 

Black Archival ink then heat embossed

in black. Fussy cut them after blinging them up 

with Nuvo Blue Lagoon Crystal Drops. 

Attached some lightly coloured dry wall tape and a 

flourish before adding the butterflies.

Finished with a popped sentiment cut from

MFT die and distressing some of the edges.

A few close ups!

I am going enter this at 

Creative Artiste Mixed Media Challenge

for their current Challenge Here

It's an Anything Goes so the sky's the limit!

Thanks for dropping in today.

Only a few days till the New Year.

Hoping yours will be a Happy Healthy one.

It's Happy Little Stampers Watercolour Challenge

A Guid New Year tae ane an awe

And mony may we see!

( A wee bit of Scotland coming out here)

Hope you all had a Very Merry Christmas
and now we move on to 2018.

The first Challenge over at Happy Little Stampers is our
Anything Goes Watercolour Challenge
(and I'm part of the New Look Team)
with the Optional Twist to use Sequins.
I'm sure we all have lots of little containers
full of these little treasures.

My watercolour background effect was the result of
spritzing water on to my craft mat after I added
Tim's Oxide Inks in Mermaid Lagoon & Salty Ocean
then spread with an acetate sheet.
The feature of my card is of course the feather
which is a stencil by TCW. I added texture paste
and once dry inked with Mermaid Lagoon.
It needed a little something so I put my stencil
back over the feather and versamarked it
then heat embossed the glitter.
Added some tiny text for interest.
Sentiment is from HLS Thinking of You
which unfortunately is retired.
Finished with HLS Blue Sequins and
a few gems and cut with a stitched die
adhering to metallic card stock.

Our winner for this challenge will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the shop! 
Check out all the details HERE.

IF YOU USE STAMPS BY HAPPY LITTLE STAMPERS AND YOU ARE OUR RANDOM WINNER, YOUR PRIZE WILL BE DOUBLED!
How good is THAT!

Thanks for dropping in. Please check out Our Blog
to see what the Team have created
and come join us this month.
Hope to see you there.

It's Chris's Cool Colour Challenge!

It's our Colour Week at Just Us Girls
and Hostess for this one is Chris
choosing the colours Pink Navy & Grey .

I was so undecided as to what I was going to make here
and then remembered a great grungy stamp I received
recently called - Celebrate Artsy from STAMPlorations
so decided I would stamp  one of the images with
2 of the required colours. Die cut it from a
Spellbinders die and framed it.
I seem to be in a stencil mode lately so I went
that way again for my background.
The stencils I used here are from
The Crafter's Workshop
Tim Holtz - Speckles
Dutch Doobadoo
Added a strip of  pink ribbon a button
and some cotton which I inked a little in navy.
This was popped after adding my sentiment
from Bloom Happy (love this little set)
and finishing with a few scattered gems.
A pretty simple card - and a little different.
Don't forget to pop over to Our Blog
to see what our Guest Shawna
and my team Mates have made.
They always 'impress'

Thanks for dropping in
Till next time - Cherrio from