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I have a love-hate relationship with mixed media. I love the look you can get but I hate the mess I have to clean up. But I am trying to learn to let the hate part go and enjoy the creative process.In trying to fix my struggle with this medium, I try to do classes or follow videos.
These cards are from a class Juliana Michaels gave with Mary Polanco Designs.Well technically the backgrounds are from the class. Instead of saving them as references as Juliana suggested I turned mine into cards right away.
These cards are from a class Juliana Michaels gave with Mary Polanco Designs.Well technically the backgrounds are from the class. Instead of saving them as references as Juliana suggested I turned mine into cards right away.
The butterflies on these 2 cards are from the Altenew Swallowtail Butterfly die set. I only used 2 of the layers to create these butterflies. That is the plus to layering dies, you do not always have to use all of the layers so you can get many different looks. The bottom layer is cut from heavy vellum and the top layer I cut from watercolor paper and then sprayed it with Distress Stain Sprays.
For the background stamping we used 4 different types of ink. This class was all about seeing what happens with you spray Distress Stain and Distress Oxide sprays over the different types of end. Even though I have had & used the different types of ink many time over the years I have not played around with them to see how they react with sprays.
For these 2 I just used large sentiment dies to create sentiments and simply placed them on the card fronts. Super simple but the size and color of the sentiments give it a little something extra.
For these 2 I used the same leaf die from Altenew's Just Leaves die set but changed up the look and feel of them by using different colors of cardstock to cut them.
In addition to the stamping and the distress sprays we also used stencils with Ranger's Texture Paste and gave the panels more texture and dimension. This is a technique that I really need to use more often.
For these last 2 cards I did more die cutting, this time using the Sizzix Wildflower Stems #2 by Tim Holtz. I love the look of silhouettes and these dies are the perfect thing to accomplish that look.
Do you create mixed media or are you like me and have a love-hate relationship with this medium?
Do you create mixed media or are you like me and have a love-hate relationship with this medium?
