Hi everyone! If you have been following me for awhile now, you know that I hardly ever do mixed media on my card. There are reasons for this, but it’s mostly because I don’t think I am very good at it. I know I am being a little hard on myself, so I decided that instead of shying away from mixed media projects, I will start embracing it!
This card I created is inspired by a live video on the newly launched Hero Arts FB group “Mixed Media with Hero Arts” where cling stamps were used to make an impression on wet embossing paste.
First, I took some Hero Paste and spread it over a piece of thick watercolor paper. I used a small palette knife to do this. Then, while the paste was still wet. I pressed the Mountains & Trees cling stamp on parts of the paste to leave impressions of the trees. I made sure to clean my stamp right away to make sure the paste does not dry on the stamp.
After the panel was dry, I sprayed it with water, then painted it with watercolors. Just dropping the colors into the wet surface and allowing the watercolors to bleed into each other. I just made sure to avoid contrasting colors, in this case, I used different shades of green and blue-greens. Then I set it aside to dry.
While it was drying, I took some Hero Arts Caramel & Cup o’ Joe core inks and swiped them on a piece of Dove white cardstock. Then I stamped the image of a mama bear and her cub from the Bear Hugs stamp & cut stamp set with Intens-ified black ink and used the coordinating die to cut it out.
In order to “ground” the bear family, I tore some washi tape and added them to the panel.
I also used the Trail Map Bold Print cling stamp and selectively stamped the images all over the panel. Then I added the mama bear and her cub with dimensional foam tape. Then sentiment is from the same stamp set, stamped with Intens-ified ink on a green and blue ink swiped background – cut out by hand and added onto the panel.
And to finish off , I ink blended Cup o’Joe ink all around the edges of the panel before adhering it onto a card base.
I have this to say, I thoroughly enjoyed the process of mixed media! There was a brief moment in the process where I thought, that it could come out so horribly wrong but I trusted the process and in the end, I think it came out great!
How about you? Are you afraid of mixed media or are you the type that enjoys the unpredictability of it all?
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’til next time!
Anna
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