Mixed Media Heart

Happy Sunday. I thought I would play along at a few challenges today. At Clarity it is Bingo time - I have used Clarity stamps (words and background text - but not sure this is visible anymore!), Clarity stencil (leaves) and grunge paste. Lots of distress paints and stains plus some die cuts for added texture and a little treasure gold.

I would also like to enter:

That Craft Place - Anything Goes - Mixed media

We Love to Create - Anything goes - Mixed Media

Nikki x

Stamp It - Stencil It Wall Plaque

Hi everyone - a quick post to share a little plaque I have created using the Wendy Vecchi Stamp It Stencil It Rose she kindly gave us at her London workshop a few weeks ago. Fab day so thought I must play along at the Make ART challenge - where the theme is monochromatic

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Have a good day

Nikki

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Inspired by Wendy Vecchi

Good morning everyone. Today I am sharing this tag over on the Country View Crafts project blog - do hop over if you would like to see some details.

I would like to enter:
Try it on Tuesday - Flowers
The Mirror Crackd - Masks

Nikki

12 Tags of 2015 - August - Looking on the bright side

 

It has been a few months since I have played along with Tim's tags. Wasn't convinced by this one until I tried it - then I loved it!! You can see Tim's here. I was at my craft weekend when I did it so didnt have too many supplies , so went with grungepaper, distress painted umbrella man for my main feature.

Ooops bit out of focus there - sorry. Thanks for visiting.

Nikki

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Tattered florals and grungepaper...

For my second creation for the Country View Crafts August challenge - Summertime - I have created this textured canvas.
I started with a layer of gesso and once dry used distress paints to give it a little colour. I added some tissue paper to create some wrinkles and some texture paste around the edges to provide a border.

My flowers were made with grungepaper - with a layer of gessoed card stuck on it (makes it strong but still pliable). I make sure the gesso is stippled rather than smooth so that a little texture is there for highlighting with treasure gold or dry brushing. I cut out and painted my tattered florals flowers before highlighting. I added some air dry clay flowers too and finally dry brushed the whole canvass with a darker blue and added some treasure gold to highlight the textures.

Nikki 

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Here and Now

 

Hi everyone... a quick post from me today. I spent the weekend with friends crafting so I got some proper craft playtime - hurray. Here is one of my makes from the weekend, a card combining the latticework die from Tim Holtz Mixed Media framelits with the latticework stencil. For the latter I used texture paste followed by distress sprays, scraped gesso and then some distress paint.

My background was a combination of distress sprays, then ink, then some spritzing and a little picket fence distress paint.

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Mixed Media World - Gorgeous Texture

Mixed Media Card challenge - Butterflies

FanTastic Tuesday - Anything goes with a butterfly

Try it on a Tuesday - Stencils

Nikki

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Fun and bright

I am having fun over on the Country View Crafts project blog today with paper artsy paints and glossy accents. Do hop over to see my step by step.

Nikki

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