Mixed Media Card for the Craft Hoarders Anonymous Challenge Blog

I'm so delighted to be guest designing for the Craft Hoarders Anonymous Challenge Blog. Today is our second reveal. The challenge is to use mixed media on your projects. This was a perfect challenge for me and, I've created a textured, layered, inky, painty card.

Challenge #10 Spray It! Ink It! Paint It! Smear It! Emboss It!

Show us your inner mixed media diva! Use spray mists, inks, paints, modeling paste, embossing powder, pastels, chalk, and whatever messy media you can find! Let's dig into that hoard, pull out some of that "messy stuff," and use it up! There is a mess-maker hiding in all of you! Let her/him out to play!

The challenge sponsors are Stencil Girl and WorldWin Papers.

Mixed Media Card

Tips and Techniques

Everything on my card has been in my hoarded stash for at least a year, and some items quite longer than that. I enjoy tying triple loop bows from seam binding. This one, along with my flowers was brushed with mist and gesso.

I started with a plain white base, then added strips of a vintage book page and sheet music. I've mostly covered them, but you can see bits peeking through the layers. The gold you see here is a bit of a metallic doily layered atop the vintage papers. I've applied stenciling with Texture Effect over all. The chipboard frame is one I had painted for another project, then set it aside unused. I thought this would be a perfect opportunity to finally use it. I've dry brushed it with white gesso to distress. 

At the bottom of the card you can see where I've applied a swirl of glossy accents then clear mini marbles and gold microbeads. 

I designed and cut this oval card shape from white cardstock rescued from a photo album page insert. I wanted the front to be a perfect oval, so cut a separate piece to decorate, then adhered it to my card base. 

I hope you've enjoyed this mixed media inspiration and will create a project to

link up at the Craft Hoarders Anonymous Challenge Blog found HERE.  

This challenge closes, Sunday, June 29th, midnight PT

Products Used

White Cardstock

Vintage Book Page

Vintage Sheet Music

Jute Twine

White Doily

Gold Doily

Sheetrock Mesh

Petaloo ~ Color Me Crazy - Canerbury Spray, White

Petaloo ~ Color Me Crazy - Trumpet Vine Spray, White

Petaloo ~ Color Me Crazy - Mini Pearl Daisies, White

Petaloo ~ Spring Darjeeling - Mini Daisies with Leaves

Petaloo ~ Darjeeling Petites

BBP Twisted Flowers

Pink Cherry Blossoms

Dusty Attic - Elegant Frames

Lumiere ~ Pearlescent Paint

Clearsnap by Donna Salazar ~ Mix'd Media Inx, Stormy

Liquitex~  Gesso

Martha Stewart ~ White Texture Effect

Golden ~ Soft Gel, Matte

Ranger ~ Glossy Accents

Heidi Swapp ~ Color Shine - Gold; Primrose

Tattered Angels ~ Glimmer Mist - Tuscan Sun, Cork, Tiger Lily

Beadies ~ Mini Marbles - Clear; Microbeads - Gold

Clearsnap ~ Embossing Powder - Clear

Pink Paislee ~ Christy Tomlinson Mask - Vintage Lace

Helmar ~ 450 Quick Dry Adhesive

Helmar ~ Premium Craft Glue

Martha Stewart ~ Mini Scoring Board

Darice ~ Heat Tool

Silhouette ~ Cameo

Thanks for stopping by today! I treasure your comments.

~ Blessings ~

Hope Card ~ Guest Designing for Craft Hoarders Annonymous

I'm so delighted to share that the amazingly talented Gloria Stengel has invited me to guest design for her Craft Hoarders Anonymous Challenge Blog this month. This first project is all about folding, and I've created a pleated butterfly (lots of folds here) to adorn my card. Her challenges encourage us to use our hoarded supplies, so I've used items that have been in my stash for at least a year and many of them much longer than that. 

Craft Hoarders Anonymous Challenge #9 Fold It

Use some sort of "fun fold" on your project. You can make a fun fold card, a pop-up card, an explosion box, or other type of project that makes use of folded cardstock or paper. You can share some folding techniques that are perfect for scrapbook layouts or mixed media pieces. Create a mini album with a folded binding. Fold some ribbon to make pleats. De-hoard those supplies and show us your folds....paper folds that is!

Sponsors: WorldWin Papers and StencilGirl

"Hope"

Tips and Techniques

I created this lovely butterfly using a pattern and tutorial posted by Leeann Greff at Flowerbug's Inkspot. You can find her tutorial here.

Once I folded and created the butterfly, I brushed it with several colors of Ranger's Perfect Pearls powders mixed in water to distress and color. The body is a jewelry finding piece from my stash.

The glittered Hope transparency sticker came in a kit I bought years ago. I just never had the right project for it, until now!! 

 I clustered these older Petaloo flowers along the side with berries and dried grape vine sprigs. 

Here's a final, angled shot. 

I squeezed glossy accents in the corner below the sticker and sprinkled with silver microbeads which were popular in paper crafting a few years back. I've been seeing them used in mixed media this year and have raided my hoarded stash to bring sparkle and dimension to my projects in recent days.

Products

We R Memory Keepers ~ Anthologie - Medley, Potpourri

Ivory Cardstock

Fancy Pants Designs ~ Glitter Cuts Diecuts - Hope

Petaloo ~ Velvet Hydrangea - Blue

Petaloo ~ Chantilly Mixed Blooms - Cream

Berry Sprig ~ Stash

Grape Vine ~ Stash

Jewelry Finding ~ Stash

Creative Charms ~ Vintage Brads VP-8206

Kaisercraft ~ Pearls - Lemon
Queen & Co ~ Pearls - Sunflower Yellow
Ranger ~ Perfect Pearls - Heirloom Gold; Blue Patina; Perfect Bronze
Beadies ~ Microbeads - Silver
Helmar ~ 450 Quick Dry Adhesive
Helmar ~ Premium Craft Glue
Helmar ~ Liquid Scrapdots
Idea-ology ~ Paper Distresser
Martha Stewart ~ Mini Scoring Board
Ranger ~ Heat It Craft Tool

I hope you've been inspired to dig into your scrappy hoard to create a project for the Craft Hoarders Annonymous Paper Folding Challenge. Stop by the blog here for details and to link your project.

Thanks for stopping by! I treasure your comments.

~ Blessings ~