Mixed Media Monday

The challenge this week is to try something new - so I have.

A 'house' shape, painted with shades of yellow (I don't usually use yellow) and maroon shimmer spray.

Acetate printed image, over the background and torn dictionary page (inked) with wording relating to beauty. Painted and embossed gold swirl with a mirror image cut out. Gold Krylon edging and gold embossed through scrap plastic. It looks a whole lot better in real life.

My first Mixed Media entry - I am just getting back into crafting, so need the practice!

Zutter - my new toy. My first project

I treated myself to a toy - a Zutter - a little binding machine




Here are the binding wires. And together with some papers I cut out, I made simple little book for my 7 year old granddaughter's birthday.

This is not meant to be 'arty' but just a little book for a little girl to draw in, write in, stick photos, in - just a bit of fun.


The front and rear pages I cut using thick card and stamped and embossed and inserted a favourite photo of her. The pages all line up but as I was taking photos - in a rush - some will look a bit askew.

I cut a 4" x 4" piece of plastic to protect the front cover as it has the photo on it.





For the internal pages I cut quite a number of plain card - coloured one side only, so that my little granddaughter can write or draw on them.

This is a photo of her chicken Lucy who lives with me. She can write or draw on the plain page opposite telling a bit about her chicken.




Interspersed between the plain pages I have insert a few decorated ones - just as a surprise, and flowery sheets.



Little touches to make it look a bit pretty, but still with room for her pictures.




More pages



Some printed pages to mount things on or to leave as they are.



I made a page with a little pocket - this has some tags inside which can be used, then other little 'treasures' can be put in there.



Pages in between - then a fancy little page at the end.




The rear page of the book. The inside cover of which has been embossed with a little message from me.

Once I had cut, decorated and assembled the pages, I put them in the Zutter machine to punch out the holes, then inserted a length of the binding wire which I had previously cut to size. inserted it through the pages in one go, then put them in the machine to squeeze it together.

I finished it off with lots of fluffy wools and ribbons in her favourite colours which I fluffed up after taking the photos - to hide the wires

Asian Gothic Arch - Japanese

This backing paper came from a bit of Japanese shopping wrapping paper which my daughter in law saved from me.

Asian Arch

At last I am back crafting again.

There is an Asian Arch swap on Zuzu's forum which I am going to join in.

The backing for the above arch is genuine Indian material - I bought a very old skirt from a Charity Shop with a view to using the material - sometime!

I am fascinated with the different patterns you can get for henna hands. You can now buy patterns in 'prints' to go on your hand - not that I would of course.

The edging of the material had a faded gold pattern which I painted over with gold paint to bring it back to life.

I then painted the flowers on the backing material to mirror the flowers featured on the hands - and I painted the pattern at the point on the backing material to mirror the one on the arm, and the pattern of squiggles underneath

The little hanging glass squares came from a broken ballroom glitter ball, these I painted with alcohol ink and added the gold patterns - little mirrors are used a lot in Asian art.


It looks much brighter in real life and the gold glistens which is quite nice.

Texture, texture, texture ATC

How I wish you could feel all these textures - they just do not show up with a photo or scan.

The backing paper came from MADJAK Designs from Linda at blumoth1971@hotmail.com


But - I 'made it my own original' but adding lots of dots, shading, and drew in more black swirls to marry it up to the stamped image on acrylic strip along the left hand edge. I also shaded some of the stamped acrylic and added a swirl.

I edged the border in black.

I was rather pleased with the end result of this one - I think for once I will keep this for myself

MADJAK DESIGNS

I used MADJAK stamps from Linda at blumoth1971@hotmail.com for all these Artist Trading cards - using different mediums for different effects.


The Wedding - stamped on music score paper, embossed matt black, and burnt border. This is darker in reality - and the border is dark burnt brown - achieved by using lemon juice and a heat gun.




Water coloured camouflaged type backing paper with silver outlines. Stamp reversed on acetate and edged with silver embossing




Little Boy Blue
Background paper blue shades rainbow, image stamped with a complementing blue ink and heavily embossed - so has a shiny dimpled texture.



Distressed ink background, stamped embossed face, border distressed red embossing.

Unfortunately the scans do not show up all the textures of the embossing - these are very touch feely ATCs.

Tribal Tags

Painted and stippled background. Printed image - coloured and enhanced with gold Krylon pen



Stamped embossed background. Stamped tribal warrior painted.