Today seemed like a good day to try something a bit different. There were lots of bits and pieces on my desk- colored images, monoprints, and various other backgrounds. I thought it would be fun to put some of these items to use and create mixed media cards.
I think a lot of us have a certain idea of what mixed media is in our heads- lots of texture, layers, and lots and lots of products- sprays, pastes, metal items, tissue paper, pencils, crayons, gel mediums to name a few. However, in the card making world, many consider a mixed media card to be two or more mediums on a card.
So, here we go. I have 3 different cards, varying in complexity and using different mediums.
The first is super CAS!
The two mediums are watercolor and acrylic paint.
Here is the how to~
The background panels are from a single monoprint using acrylic paint and a stencil. If you are not familiar with monoprinting, it involves using a gel plate like the ones here. Acrylic paint was dropped on and rolled out with a Printing Brayer. The leaf panel is two stamps- the leaf is from the Autumn Splendor Stamp Set and the doodled square is from the Just Be Stamp Set. I stamped and masked the leaf onto water color paper, then stamped the square. The image was then watercolored with Ken Oliver Color Bursts and fussy cut out. I doodled lines around my background panels using a Sakura Pigma Micron Pen. Some acrylic paint splatters finish off the leaf image.
The next card has a bit more going on~
The flower, which is from the Mason Jar Bouquet Stamp Set, was stamped with Versafine Onyx Black Ink on water color paper, painted with Ken Oliver Color Bursts and fussy cut out. The background is stamped multiple times with the floral branch from the Birds and Blooms Stamp Set and colored with Prismacolor pencils. I added dies cuts from a new die I was trying out and heat embossed a sentiment from the Singing Praises Stamp Set.
This third card is what you may consider to be a more traditional mixed media project. It was inspired by our own Julee Tilman!
I had another flower laying around, wanting to be used on a card. It was stamped on watercolor paper with Versafine Onyx Black Ink , water colored with Ken Oliver Color Bursts and then fussy cut out. My mixed media panel was one I made when trying to replicate something that Julee had made. Well, mine fell really short! I was going to toss it, but, when placed next to the color orange, it suddenly came to life. I also had a piece of patterned paper that had been spritzed with a couple of different shimmery sprays; the colors worked perfectly with the orange rose and the teal panel. The sentiment is from the new, Sentimental Mash Up Stamp Set. This card uses water colors, sprays, embossing paste and distress oxides.
There you have it, 3 mixed media cards, all with very different looks. Which do you like best?
I hope I have inspired you to get messy today!
Thanks for stopping by and have a blessed week!
Lee Ann
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