Happy New Year! Mixing Up with Mixed Media!

Card Kits, Mixed Media, Seasons, Taylored Expressions, Winter

Hello friends and welcome to 2024!🎉  I’m looking forward to a year filled with many happy memories and fun!  I’m wishing these things for you as well!  So to get the year started, I’m inviting you to a fun challenge to play along with at the Mix It Up Challenge!

The theme is always ANYTHING GOES with an optional theme of MIXED MEDIA!  With these challenges, you have plenty of time to enter as they run for 6 weeks!  I look forward to seeing what you come up with!  

I know that mixed media can seem a bit intimidating, but it’s only using more than 1 extra medium of any kind on your creation.  I usually do that anyway!  Here’s the card that I came up with for this challenge using the Mixed Media option:

I’m really loving how this turned out!  I’ve used another fun card kit from Taylored Expressions with the Snow Crystals card kit. (no longer available)

Background:  I started by white heat embossing the Swirling Snow Background Stamp over watercolor cardstock.  I used different shades of blue watercolor with a bit of turquoise in there as well.  I spritzed it with water to get the “watermark” look and let it dry.  I then used some Copic opaque white mixed with water and splattered some over top for another layer of snow.  After it was dry, I also filled in the circles with a glitter brush pen.

I die cut the snowflake die in navy and again in white cardstock 3 times.  I layered the navy at the bottom over the background.  The three snowflakes cut out with white were glued together and then I took 2 layers of sparkle silver embossing powder to heat set.  I layered the embossed snowflake slightly tilted from the navy snowflake and attached over top.  I also silver embossed the sentiment over a navy strip and added some “dash marks” with a white gel pen before attaching to the background.

Finished off the card by running the edges of the background panel with liquid glue and then attaching some chunky glitter to the edges.  I also attached a silver rhinestone in the center of the snowflake.  It’s so glittery and shiny in person!

Thanks so much for stopping in today and I hope that you will take the time to play along with us!  Be sure to check out the Mix It Up Challenge Blog for the design team inspiration!  

Challenges:

  1. Creative Fingers – Anything Goes
  2. Crafting From the Heart – Anything Goes
  3. Allsorts – Cold & Ice
  4. Crafting Happiness – Anything Goes
  5. Gem of a Craft – Anything Goes
  6. Four Seasons – Winter Season
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24 thoughts on “Happy New Year! Mixing Up with Mixed Media!”

  1. You really do mixed media so well! The blue snowflake background is gorgeous, and I love how you layered that die-cut snowflake to give it depth. The edges look amazing with the glittery sparkle too. Way to start off the new year with a beautiful card like this! Happy New Year and happy crafting too!

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  6. Happy New Year Vicki, hoping it the best ever, and I love your gorgeous snowflake card, the background is gorgeous and love the layered silver embossed flake and the fabulous splattering..

    Luv CHRISSYxx

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  10. This is a beautiful inky background for the delicate filigree snowflake, a gorgeous card. Thanks for sharing at Allsorts this week.
    Lorraine

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  12. This is such a fun Winter card. I love your creativity and I thank you for sharing with us at The Four Seasons Challenge Blog. Have a blessed New Year and please join us again soon.

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  15. A beautiful snowflake themed card, love how it turned out and it’s so perfect for our “cold as ice” theme at Allsorts. Thanks so much for joining us, and also thanks for sharing at Four Seasons challenge!
    Happy New Year!!

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  16. What a lovely winter card Vicki. No snow in my area yet, but they say this weekend it will look like your card-smile. Hope 2024 has started off well. hugs-Erika

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  18. Hi Vicki, I love when you come over to my blog, just seeing your name brings a smile to my face and your encouraging comments cheer me up so much. Now this card is WOW…I appreciate your explanation of the process to make it. Since I don’t see as well, it helps when you call attention to the little details which account for the combined beauty. You are an awesome artist and such a sweet and wonderful person…so glad we found each other. I would love to see this in person. Photos fall so short when the work is embossed and shiny. But I have no doubt that it is “sensational.” Smiles and hugs to you and your family for a blesses 2024. Kathy

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  19. Stunning card. I love the silver snowflake and the beautiful drawing in the background.
    Happy New Year 2024
    hugs,
    BożenA

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  20. Oh my gosh this card is so amazing. I love the colors, love the die cut, love the layout. Really beautiful card. Happy New Year and blessings to you and your family. Thank you so much for visiting my blog and all your wonderful comments over the last year. I truly appreciate you taking the time.

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  21. Absolutely stunning. The blue background is so very pretty and the large snowflake is perfect against that wonderful blue color. Another beauty my friend.

    Hugs
    Sue

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  22. Beautiful – love the colors, the layout and the presentation. Great job. Trying to play a little catch up here this morning. Recovering well – couple more weeks in physical therapy.

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  23. Loving your mixed media creation, the colour blended background with the pretty snowflakes is amazing 😊. Wishing you a very Happy New Year too, may it be full of creativity! Hugs, Jo x

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