Dina is offering us a sketch for today's MIX269 MIXed media challenge. So before work I had most of this put together from scraps...
I need to start working on a smaller piece than A2 because at the moment I am liking white space around my panels, and I'm ending up needing to make a few custom envelopes...However, I started off with this piece of faux gilded silk which was stamped with Verve's Great Friend and SU Roses in Winter. It hadn't actually yet been gilded, so I added copper EP this morning, edged it with a black Sharpie and then again in a fine line with a gold leafing pen.
I didn't want to cover up all the background, so my banner layer is just vellum embossed, rubbed lightly with a merlot inkpad, edged with the gold leafing pen and stitched on.
My circle was cut from an acrylic stencil monoprint. It was quite strong, so I toned it down by stencilling some gesso through drywall tape, but then I ended up covering most of it anyway. The swirly scribble was on my desk, I embossed it with some crystal EP. The flowers were also on my desk, still uncoloured; I sponged the centres with pumpkin, the rest with wilted violet, added some white pen edging and detail, and SN clear glitter pen in the centres. The leaf is a burned paper bag leaf, check out the MIX forum for an early challenge with a tutorial. I'd tried various luster rub-ons on it before work, and ended up adding some Stickles when I got home.
I tried a couple of sentiments where Dina has the little sentiment strip - they were OK but didn't do anything for me. So I subbed a branch in for it (cut from embossed watercoloured tissue paper), and added a little bird who was left over from Monday's TLC. He's so heavily sponged with colour and luster rub-on that you can't see much of the marker marbling, though. I gave him a little eye and a Liquid Pearl beak and popped him up on foam. The sun is bright and low, so it was hard to get a good picture but I think this is pretty true to life.
Date: Friday, September 28, 2018 GMT Views: 1298
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Fri, Sep 28, 2018 @ 8:23 AM
Woohoo! Look at what can be done with a bunch of scraps and leftovers! I love the jumbled yet composed look of this card. And thanks for the detailed description. I'll bet this was a joy to assemble and create!
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Fri, Sep 28, 2018 @ 9:58 AM
This is great mixed media Sabrina, and I love your bird on the branch instead of the sentiment, great job using all these different techniques you're a mixed media champion!!
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Fri, Sep 28, 2018 @ 2:38 PM
There are so many pieces on here that I love. The embossed bird is so much fun, the text underlying the color on the flowers is cool and that burned leaf! Isn't it great when you can use some of those things sitting around piling up! Great compilation of mixed media!
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Fri, Sep 28, 2018 @ 3:36 PM
Scraps have NEVER looked so fabulous. Wow Sabrina this is mixed media magic with the different textures, colours and border. I love your branch and bird instead of the sentiment. You are a clever Chickie. Xx
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