Mixed Media

 Hey Everybody,

Today I have a card that has a watercolored sky and is all about Unity. Check out Dina's challenge here.

I added water to my watercolor paper then added color from zig pens that had been colored on an acrylic block. I used three different blue and green colors. I stamped the images with Stazon black ink. The images were colored with Copic markers. The ground was colored with a Stampin' Write marker of so saffron. I stamped the sentiment and fussy cut it and added it to the sky so it didn't take up much room. I stamped the mountain and birds in Stazon black ink.

This is what Zig pens look like. They have color inside and have a brush tip.

Keywords: MIX659 watercolor field

Stamps: Beautiful Moments

Paper: watercolor paper, highland heather

Paper Size: A2

Ink: Stazon black, gorgeous grape

Accessories: paint brushes, zig marker pens, Copic Markers, Stampin' Write marker, scissors

Techniques: watercolor background, fussy cutting

This card is part of a challenge that you need to use mixed media to make your card. That means you need two different media on your card. I used Zig paint pens, Copic Markers which are alcohol markers and Stampin' Write Markers which are water based markers on my card.

This is a mixed media challenge, with the goal of teaching people how simple Mixed Media can be, and how you can get a range of looks with Mixed Media - Clean & Simple, Vintage, Modern, Abstract, Grunge and much more.

A "medium" can be any of the following:

• Pencils - wax, oil, watercolor, graphite/charcoal, chalk/pastel
• Pastels - chalk, oil
• Markers - watercolor, pigment, water-based, acrylic
• Pens - ink, glitter
• Pigments - Gelatos, watercolor crayons, metallic rubons
• Paints - watercolor, acrylic, oil, poster, tempera
• Inks - dye, chalk, distress, reinkers, pigment, hybrid
• Powders - mica, pigment, chalk
• Sprays & airbrushing
• Dimensionals - embossing paste, gesso, fabric, found items, papers (collage, piecing) & ephemera, foils
• Heated elements - encaustic wax, embossing

And a "mix" can be any two or more of these items or others.

Have you ever made a card with mixed media? Is it something that appeals to you? What do you have in your stash that you could use for this challenge? What does unity mean to you? What types of stamps will you use?  Once you find the stamp set, what art media will you choose to make your card? You need at least two types.

These are the types of challenges that are real challenges for me. I like to try to use art media that I have that I haven't used in a while or that go well together.

Once you choose the art media you decide will you use designer series paper? Will you use an embossing folder?

Today at a friend's house, we played the ultimate challenge. She took out containers that had card bases, dry embossed card stock, colored and uncolored images, die cut images and lots of scrap cardstock and designer paper.

She would give me an image that was colored, and I would go through her containers to find designer paper or dry embossed paper that would go with her image. Then I'd look for a card base. She was in charge of gluing the cards together and finding a sentiment. She had a container of those too! LOL

What was great, was that we made about 10 Christmas Cards for her Card Ministry on the Cancer Floor at a local hospital.  It didn't really make a dent in her stash of things, but we felt great that out of all of that we were able to put 10 cards together for her to donate.

For me that's sometimes a fun way to stamp.  I do the same thing at home. I take out all of the clear envelopes I have of  sentiments, die shapes, images and papers then try to make cards from all of it.

You probably have piles of things too. You know, You make a card and think you'll use a certain shape die for the sentiment, but it doesn't look right, so you use something else. You don't throw that away, you save it somewhere.

How about this? Have you ever gone to a friend's house and see images you loved? So you stamp a bunch and bring them home. You color some of them but the rest get left behind in a container with other things. You keep adding to the container until you can't add any more, then you decide you better find time to combine these things and make cards. You don't want to throw them away.

Anyway, the only way I'd toss things is if they are really old, or if I've looked at them repeatedly and not used them  but keep storing them. Then I toss them in recycling.

Well, that's it for today. Tomorrow is a day of rest. I've had a busy week with something going on each day. Tomorrow I don't have anything planned. I may take in the Cavs game or The Browns.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you stop by again soon.

Blessings,

Sue