Hi everyone! It's technique week over at Just Us Girls and Maria chose a challenge that really intimidated me until I sat down and tried it! This week we are using Mixed Media as our challenge. She found this great video over at Splitcoast Stampers for you to watch and to be inspired.
I watched this video along with several others, including videos from Tim Holtz and Jennifer McGuire. Jennifer did a flower similar to this and I loved it and stared there. The flower is from Papertrey Ink's Delightful Dahlia set. I stamped it in Versamark on watercolor paper then heat embossed it with white ep. I applied Spiced Marmalade and Worn Lipstick distress stains, and spritzed it with water to help move and puddle the inks. I let it sit for a while to dry. I did the same for the leaf, however I only had Peeled Paint distress ink and no other green inks to get some dimension. Then I took a Ranger manila tag and applied the Spiced Marmalade and Worn Lipstick inks on the tag and spritzed it with water too. I heat set it and let the inks move around while heating it. This is where I stray from the video. I was supposed to apply Gesso or white acrylic paint to the tag, but didn't have either, so I left it. I then used a Dylusions stencil (from Ranger) and some pearl Modeling Cream to create this border. I used an old credit card to spread the modeling cream into the openings of the stencil. The results were so cool!
Since the Modeling Cream was pearl, it really shimmers! Here's a side view of that. The sentiment is from PTI's Stylish Sentiments: Birthday and was stamped in Versafine Onyx Black. I added some seam binding to the hole. I'm entering this tag into our county fair in August.
I was so excited about this technique that I decided to make a card for my friend's upcoming birthday. I did the same technique for the flower, leaf, and background paper. Except this time I covered the background paper with Picket Fence distress stain. It lightened it up and muted it a bit.
Again, here is a shot of the shimmer of the Molding Cream.
Here are the two side-by-side. You can see how the background on the card is more muted. Love this technique!
You have to check out these blogs to see what the JUGs design team did with this technique.
ETA: I'm also entering this in Moxie Fab World's Birthday Tags and Wraps Challenge! Perfect fit for my tag!
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Recipe
Stamps: Delightful Dahlia, Stylish Sentiment: Birthday (PTI)
Paper: Neenah white, pear pizzazz, Ranger manila tag, watercolor paper
Ink: Worn lipstick, spiced marmalade, peeled paint, and picket fence distress inks, Versafine onyx black, Versamark
Accessories: Delightful Dahlia die (PTI), white ep, Modeling Cream (Creative Imagination), Dylusions stencil diamond border (Ranger), dimensionals
I also saw that the Moxie Fab World blog has a challenge going on called 
I was also inspired by a challenge from my LSS, 
Combining all three challenges, I came up with this card. It's going to be a belated birthday card for my niece. 
I didn't put a sentiment on the outside like in the sketch. I forgot about that! The inspiration card made for the Buffalo Stamps & Stuff used this same bee folder, which I realized I had! The card came together easily using the other challenges. I brayered the embossed layer with Scattered Straw distress ink to match the color inspiration. I then used gray (a neutral that I also pulled from the color inpiration) as my base and dp (from SU). We were supposed to use lots of white on our card for the color inspiration, so I backed the embossed piece with a white layer. The ribbon is So Saffron grosgrain. For the image, I went with this little bee from Just Buzzin' By (SU). I cut and embossed it with a nestie and swept it with some of the Scattered Straw ink. I finished it off with some pretty silver pearls and star dust stickles on the wings.