Demystifying Mixed Media Day 6

I can't believe it's the last day already (well, yesterday was). I had so much fun in this class and the techniques were amazing! This card used the die cut alphabet left over from day 5. What a great way to use up these pieces. I did need to die cut a few more so I just did the whole alphabet!

I used paint a poppy as my focal and fussy cut it out. I love using the artist markers to color, now that I kinda know what I'm doing. For the sentiment I embossed it twice in platinum embossing powder to get the nice shine you see below. 

I did have a hard time getting my paint to dry over the embossed background, but I put to much embossing powder. Next time I will go in with a much lighter hand. This card dried overnight in order for me to be able to touch it. 

I used worn lipstick oxide spray for my base color and heat set it. When it was dry I used embossing ink over the panel and embossed in crystal clear embossing powder. I then sprayed both antique silver spray and lucky clover oxide spray on top. This was the layer that took all night to dry lol. 

A closer look at my colored images. I did cut the stem and bottom leaf off so it fit better onto my card. I added a few tinseltown sequins and the card is complete!!

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Demystifying Mixed Media Day 4

So, as promised, here is day 4 of the Altenew Mixed Media class. This class is all about inlay die cutting.  I had a lot of fun creating this background. I even had my older son help me pick out the paint color to add. 

I used caps bold alphabet dies to create my lettered background. I have been eye balling this set for quite some time and finally purchased them. I have so many ideas for this set.  

I used the antique gold shimmer spray on this when I was adding the color to the background. It's so fun to watch it the ink move around and combine with the spray.

Here's a closer look at all the different elements going on. I have marigold ink, antique gold spray, green pop acrylic paint and antique gold embossing powder. 

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Demystifying Mixed Media Day 5

Hi everyone! You may notice that I skipped over day 4 of this class. I was waiting for an order and it finally arrived last night so that will be coming soon. 

Today's class was about decoupage and watercolor.  I changed up the colors a bit and did some darker oranges. I have been doing light and bright and I really wanted to add in the antique gold shimmer spray.  

I ended up having to make two cards. When I went to emboss my image on the first one it was still slightly wet and I lost half the flower image. That's okay though. I'm still going to keep it and mail it out. 

The second one came out better in the embossing area but I used a darker orange that the first card and wish I'd kept with the original two colors. 

This shows the color difference between the two. The first one uses the colors orange cream and autumn blaze and the second used orange cream and firebrick.

Here's a couple of close ups of the coloring. I tried to get some of the shimmer so I hope you can see the detail. In person it is so pretty and has some much shine to it. 

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Demystifying Mixed Media Day 3

Welcome to day three of Altenew's Demystifying Mixed Media class. I can't give enough praise for this class. I'm learning so many new things and using stuff in my stash that I haven't had the bravery to do so yet. 

I started with using the watercolor brush markers to create the watercolor effect on the background. This was a lot of fun and I learned that you need to dry the ink in between applications so you get the watercolor effect. Otherwise it's just color on color. 

The next step was to use embossing paste with one of the marker colors to create the background. I used sea breeze from the spring garden set to get the beautiful blue color. Once I mixed and then added through the stencil I sprinkled in some platinum embossing powder and heat set it

I then stamped the two smaller flowers and the two open leaves images from the wallpaper art stamp set and colored them in using autumn blaze, emerald and citrus burst watercolor brush markers.

I love the bold colors and how saturated the colors are. You can use a watercolor brush and water to create a softer color but I really wanted these images to pop off my card. I used black cardstock as my base to help make the watercolor panel stand out. 

Here are a few close ups for you.

I used dimensional tape behind both flowers. I used liquid glue on the leaves and part of the larger flower to adhere it to the front of the card.

I am really loving how the embossed background stands out from the yellow watercolor. I so enjoyed making this card and have several other backgrounds to play with, as I had extra watercolor and embossing paste. 

Here's another card I made using one of the extra panels. I chose to use the winter wonderland set of watercolor brush markers for this card. 

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Demystifying Mixed Media Day 1

Hi everyone! Welcome back to my blog, where I like to share all things creative I've been working on. Today I started day one of the new Altenew class Demystifying Mixed Media. Today's class was about watercoloring with embossing paste. 

I did watch the video a couple of times to make sure I was getting the hang of it. I think my paint brush was a bit to big as my splatters came out huge instead of the little cute dots I was going for lol. Oh well, I'll just have to make another one!

I enjoyed using the 36 watercolor pan set from Altenew. I haven't used this one as much as my other set and really liked being able to choose a specific color and paint. 

I have been watching a lot of videos the last few weeks and one lady uses thread a lot as accents under photos and images so I thought I'd give it a try with this blue twine. It matches quite well and I really like the extra texture it gives. 

As you can see in this photo my splatters are more like splotches lol, that's okay though. Gives a bit of different look. 

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