Four ATCs

Breathe

Here's a beach card for you.  I love the dreamy mood created in the beautiful photo by Paper House, and decided to use it as my focal point,and inspiration.

Supplies Used:

• Beach Mixed Card Pack
• Florida Mixed Card Pack

To make this I sprayed my dry watercolors with water,scribbled on some water soluble oil pastels on my craft mat, and made little puddles of paint of the blues,greens, and purples I planned on using. Using watercolor paper, I misted about half the page, and applied a small amount of paint.  I misted again, and tilted the page in different directions to let the paint run, then again to soften any hard edges. I used a heat gun to dry it,then put on more layers in different colors. I also used metallic watercolors,and watercolor pencils.  I took small amounts of teal liquid pearls and brushed them on all the edges of the paper,flowers, and on random spots on the glitter. 

You can see I flicked on paint all around. To create more texture I used glass glitter in clear and champagne,shells, bling, and sequins. The page got too busy, so I brushed on some white watercolor,and white acrylic paint. I rubbed on pearl mica power all over the card. To finish up I put more diamond glitter glue on the edges of the flowers.

  The little girl is from a greeting card I cut up, and the great egret is from a photo I took locally.

The flowers are watercolors over dry gesso, followed by clear glass glitter and pearl mica powder.

Thank you so much for looking, and have a great week!

Believe

 Hi everyone! Melissa here with an art journal page for you.  I love the detail and intense colors of Paper House products, so I made a stunning pink dahlia image the center of the page.

Supplies Used:

• Flamingo Mini Trim Cards 12" Colorways Scrapbook Paper
• Flamingo 12" Cardstock Stickers
• Mini Mixed Butterfly Puffy Sticker
• Primroses Puffy Sticker

I used a page of a  9 x 12 watercolor book to support all the media I wanted to use. I prepped the page with white gesso, followed by texture paste applied through some paper die cuts.  I used pink shimmery watercolor, and water soluble oil pastels. I didn't have a sprays in the colors I wanted to use, so I mixed what I had with water, and brushed a lot on the diamond texture. I tipped the page in different directions, let the color run all over,misted it with water to soften and blend it,and used a heat gun to dry it. I used the same process for the green. I glued the beautiful flower image onto a piece of paper and put it on the page. To add more texture I added glass glitter, micro beads, seed beads, and threads I pulled from a piece of gauze. I lightly brushed the pink crayon over the diamond texture along the outer edges of the page, and misted it. I added green watercolor randomly in between the diamonds.  If any of the  colors ran I blotted them off with a paper towel.

To add more visual interest I put on butterfly and rose stickers, rub ons, flowers,bling, stamps, a cut up black and white vintage photo, and die cuts.

The page looked too busy, so I brushed white gesso over some areas. Along the edges of the page I brushed it on lightly, as an accent.

I don't really like a mat white look, so I brushed pearl mica powder over all the areas I'd used gesso.

Thanks for looking, and have a great day!

Peace

I painted a few cherry blossoms using a photo as a reference,and then stenciled on some modeling paste. I added flowers, pearls, die cuts, microbeads,sequins, and stickers.  I added more paint using Shimmers , Twinkling H20s, Watercolor pencils, Viva Decor Inka Gold, and Winsor and Newton watercolors. After almost everything I put on, I used an empty hairspray bottle filled with water to mist on water. This blended the colors and softened edges.

The die cuts are by Sizzix. The girl is from Tim Holtz Found Relatives, her crown is by Paper House, The Wizard of Oz collection. 

The metal bird is Vintaj.

I used a lot of gold mica powder all over.

The peace, love and joy rub ons are from Tim Holtz.

I used some lace.

Close up of bottom right.

Top right in sun.

Thanks for looking, and I hope you liked it!

Play

Hi! A card for a summery day(because it's summer),lol! I hope you like it. I'm trying to use the beautiful mixed media techniques I see on you tubes,mainly ones by Marta Lapkowska.

I started by painting a petunia and two leaves from a photo in a book. The flower didn't come out too well, so I covered it with some paper ones. I used a stencil and modeling paste,then painted with Windsor and Newton watercolors,Lindy's Stamp Gang,Tattered Angels, Jaquard Mica Powders, General's watercolor pencils,and Twinkling H20s, 

Beachy Altered Box

Hi everyone! Melissa here with an altered box. The paper I used is so beautiful, it was hard for me to put anything on it. The beach is one of my favorite places to be. 

Supplies Used:

• Footprints 12" Double Sided Scrapbook Paper
• Atlantis Cloudy Skies 12" Colorways Scrapbook Paper
• Believe 12" Double Sided Scrapbook Paper
• Atlantis Map 12"Colorways Scrapbook Paper

To make this covered wood box I first took the hardware off.  I adhered paper to the inside and outside with gloss gel. I painted the hardware with gesso after putting it back on.  On top of the gesso I applied gold rub n buff with my finger, gold mica powder, and very lightly brushed on  aqua metallic paint. 

To make a surface to apply paint to, I applied mat modge podge with a cosmetic wedge sponge. I also thought the sealed paper would be easier to dust, for when it's on a bookcase in my scraproom.

I painted on brown glimmery mist around the hardware,and drew on thick lines with a brown watercolor pencil. I softened the pencil with a wet brush.

I left three sides of the box relatively plain, to allow the shoreline on the paper to be the main focus.

I rubbed on gold mica powder with my finger on the edges of the box.

I used glossy accents to glue on shells, metal,micro beads, and pearls. I painted with brown,then turquoise shimmery mist on the front of the top.

  I sprayed on the same colors of mist on gauze. After it was dry, I  put small pieces on the box,  sprayed with water, and using a straight pin drew the threads out to where I wanted them. I lightly applied glossy accents along the threads.

  I put on a photo of a Black Crowned Night Heron that I took a while back. He's a water bird so he fits right in.

As a final step I patted on gold mica powder with my finger to random spots. This was to kind of tie together all the items.

I kept the color scheme pretty simple.

I'm sure I will enjoy looking at this on my bookcase for a long time.  Thanks for stopping by, and have a great day!

Vintage Tea Time

Hi everyone! Melissa here with a mixed media page for Paper House. I enjoyed working with the papers because the patterns and colors are so beautiful!

Supplies Used:

• Atlantis Turquoise 12" Colorways Scrapbook Paper
• Atlantis Bokeh 12" Colorways Scrapbook Paper
• Atlantis Edgings 12" Colorways Scrapbook Paper

To make this page I first sponged on white gesso, to have a base for the paint to stick to. I stenciled on some texture paste, then sprayed with Tattered Angels mist. I flicked on aqua shimmery paint with a paint brush.

I distressed the edges of papers and layered them. I put foam core board between them to add dimension. I put the photo on top and used double sided foam tape to attach it to the page.

To add texture and color I added gold mica powder, glass glitter, seed beads, micro beads, and glitter glue. I dry brushed some metallic paint over all the glitter and little beads. I added layers of pearl and aqua mica powder,and then some flowers and feathers.

I hope you liked my page,and have a wonderful day!