"The Adventure Begins" Mixed Media Card for Studio75

Welcome to my creative space!

Today I have a sweet card to share with you featuring the fabulous Studio75 Berry Copse paper collection along with beautiful chipboard from the store.

The current Studio75 challenge is to create something for Mother's Day. Our daughter and her husband had their first child, a little boy, two month's ago. Being a mom is such a wonderful experience that I thought this sentiment that says "and so the adventure begins" would be perfect for this card that I created to celebrate her very first Mother's Day.

You can find the May Mother's Day challenge details and enter your project HERE. There are only a couple more days to enter the challenge.

Tips and Techniques

The papers from the Berry Copse collection have such gorgeous, rich colors and designs as seen in this beautiful green background paper. I added a leaf design stenciled with molding paste and stamped opposite corners with an Agateria grille stamp from the store.

I combined succulents, burlap flowers and dimensional flowers from Little Birdie Crafts at A.C. Moore to create a focal cluster. I heat embossed Scrapiniec Confetti Chipboard Hearts and Artistico HDF Cogs with Stampendous Shabby White Embossing Enamel as well as a Finnabair Mechanicals metal gear and tucked them in around the edges of the cluster.

For added interest, I tucked in a few Pistachio Stamen and then filled in with some green US ArtQuest Prills adhered with Bambino Glue. Don't you think this sentiment is just perfect for a first Mother's Day?

I simply adore that each and every Studio75 paper collection includes such gorgeous images to fussy cut. These leaves and berries are found on the 03/04 paper strip. 

The burlap flowers are lightly dry brushed with white gesso for a softer look.

More fussy cutting. You can also see that I tucked in a pearl and several sparkling FinnaBair Sugar Art Pebbles. The background is stenciled with Finnabair Paper Texture Paste using this TCW Mini Jungle Vines Stencil designed by Gabrielle Pollacco.

And one final close-up of the cog. I recently added a few bee charms to my stash and couldn't resist adding them here. They are silver, but I rubbed gold art wax over them so they would better coordinate with the other elements.

Studio75 Supplies

 

 

 

Other Supplies

Little Birdie Crafts at A.C. Moore ~ Ornamental Succulent
Little Birdie Crafts at A.C. Moore ~ Valerie - Vivid Palette
Little Birdie Crafts at A.C. Moore ~ Handmade Burlap Flowers - Ronald
Little Birdie Crafts at A.C. Moore ~ Handmade Burlap Twine Flowers - Natural
Tim Holtz with Idea-ology ~ Small Talk
Prima ~ Finnabair: Mechanicals - Rustic Gears
Prima ~ Finnabair: Art Ingredients - Melange Art Pebbles - Sugar
Prima ~ Frank Garcia: Memory Hardware - Pearls
US Artquest ~ Mini Prills - Lettuce Entertain You!
Bee Charms ~ Antique Silver (Amazon)
Prima ~ Finnabair: Art Basics - Gesso, Clear
Prima ~ Finnabair: Art Extravagance - Paper Texture Paste
Prima ~ Finnabair: Art Alchemy - Metallic Wax: Aged Brass
Ranger ~ Emboss It Dabber
Stampendous ~ Fran-tage - Embossing Enamel - Shabby White
The Crafter's Workshop with Gabrielle Pollacco ~ 6x6" Stencil - Mini Jungle Vines
Helmar ~ 450 Quick Dry Adhesive
X-Press It ~ Double Sided Tape High Tack, 1/4"

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~ Blessings ~