Good Evening
I am feeling
more in the mood for crafting today as my best friend actually contacted me
this morning, we had a good natter, naturally after any sort of car accident
never mind a head on collision leaves you battered and bruised. Hopefully she
will be back home in a day or two so I can go and see her then.
I have had a
very productive day in my craft room, my Cameo has been working all day and I
just love it – will be sharing my makes in a few days
But today I
finished off a plaque I had to make as part of a swap in a Yahoo group –
StampersUK, the swap was themed “mixed media & love”. I have to be honest
and say this really was out of my comfort zone and it has taken me 3 attempts
to get to where it is now. My problem is – what exactly is mixed media?
The mdf plaque
was from www.joannasheen.com and I started
by covering the front with a sheet of
fab distressed looking paper from the new cd by Katy Sue – Shabby Chic, I
recommend it highly!! So once the paper was dry I rubbed the edges with a
sanding block.
On to my
thoughts of mixed media, the 1st thing I did was got a small piece
of bubble wrap, rubbed over the bubbles with a versamark ink pad then covered
with blue sparkle embossing powder and heated just enough for the embossing
powder to set, once cool I roughly cut out a heart shape and stuck this to the
bottom left of my plaque.
Next I cut out a
beautiful heart shaped postcard with a deep pink rose – this was taken from a
mixed topper sheet on the Katy Sue cd. I sprayed this with Crafters Companion
spray and shine and left to dry. Months ago I bought a pack of Tim Holtz Glassine
Paper but until now had not used it – so I scrunched up half a sheet then
attempted to punch some flowers but they kept getting stuck – so note to
myself, next time cut then scrunch, but I managed to get 3 or 4 decent flowers
so used cosmic shimmer to glue one on top of the other then put a big blob of Pinflair
gel in the centre and covered with red accent beads, this was set aside to dry.
The heart had
dried nicely so was stuck to the right hand side of the plaque, I found a
double heart that was bent but I cut a piece of sticky backed clear paper and
used this to hold the hearts at the point of the shiny heart.
As this is part
of a stamping group the plaque must have some stamping somewhere, I had just
that day received a set of alphabet stamps by Pergamano so used I & S and
stamped with versamark then covered with white detail embossing powder, I then
used stars with trailers to randomly stamp over the plaque and heart embossed
them.
In my stash I
had a box of letters that used to be used in hotel foyers, how I got them I
have no idea but they were perfect for the word love, I just clipped of the
lugs at the back so the letters sat flush.
I had some
unusual stuff in my stash, it’s a Tim Holtz thing but can’t think what it’s
called, any way I put it through the big shot in an embossing folder, I rubber
the versamark over the embossed design and covered with a blue/green embossing
powder and heated, on the reverse side I did the same but this time used fuchsia
embossing powder. I cut this into very thin strips and then weaved until I had used
all the pieces, I stuck a piece of card on the top and once dry cut out an
elongated heart shape which was stuck on the bubble wrap heart.
The glassine flower
had set good and hard so I used a blob of Glossy Accents to place the flower
along the bottom right hand side. A blue metal ”thing” sorry cannot think what
it is called was stuck to the top centre with glossy accents and i cut down a
scrap of card to fit it, used Versafine Blue Lagoon ink and stamped love,
covered with clear embossing powder and heated up – then put a blob o glue on the
back and slipped it into the blue thing.
Whilst looking
for a charm I came across a bag with lots of metal embellishments in, I found 2
large flowers so using the Crop-o-dile I punched a hole through the centre then
stuck them over the drilled holes in the plaque.
Almost finished –
I had a pack of thin ply hearts and keys so lightly inked the edges, then using
jump rings I attached the key to the heart and again jump rings were used to
hold 2 charms, one said Love and the other is a Hope breast cancer ribbon. I
wrapped some dark blue ribbon around the hook of the padlock, tied a bow and
stuck to the centre of my plaque to finish!!!
So I still ask
myself – have I got it right about mixed media? I really don’t know but I do
know I would happily keep this plaque and display it in my craft room but sadly
it goes in the post tomorrow
See you tomorrow
folks
Hugs
Angie
x
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