Happy New Year! Mixing Up with Mixed Media!

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:

Creative Fingers – Anything Goes
Crafting From the Heart – Anything Goes
Allsorts – Cold & Ice
Crafting Happiness – Anything Goes
Gem of a Craft – Anything Goes
Four Seasons – Winter Season

A Snowy Shaker

Hello friends! I’m back again today to share a shaker card I’ve made using the CUTE digital stamp from Whimsy Stamps called “Snowy“!

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I had “snow” much fun making this shaker card! Hope you’ve enjoyed it for inspiration as well!

Thanks so much for stopping in at my blog today! I appreciate your kind thoughts and encouragement more than you know! I’ll see you soon!

Challenges I’d like to enter this card for:

Simon Says Stamp Monday – “Let it Snow”
Creative Moments – Anything Goes optional twist: put sentiment on creation.
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday – “Baby It’s Cold Outside!”
Aud Sentiments – Winter or Christmas Sentiment
Creative Knockouts – Snow Much Fun
Winter Wonderland – Christmas or Winter Characters (people only)
Crafty Catz – Anything Goes with optional twist: “All Wrapped Up”

Whimsy Stamps Seal On Ice

Hello friends! Back with you today to share another image from the November brand new digital release from Whimsy Stamps! Check it out:

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These seals by Crissy Armstrong have stolen my heart! I had to create with this Seal on Ice digital image too and share it with you today!

I started with my image by coloring it up with the following Copic marker colors:

seal: C5, C3, C1, C0 W1, W0, R00 – Hat/scarf: BG49, BG45, E53, E51, E50

I fussy cut him/her out and went along the edges with a black Copic friendly marker.

For the card design, I found some matching cardstock to go with the seal’s outfit and used it as the 5×5 Top folding card base as well as a mat layer behind the image panel. I took the Whimsy Stamps Pierced Border Trio Dies to cut some pieces for the snow with some glitter paper. I put one strip at the bottom of the card base and another on the bottom of the woodgrain paper I’ve used to place the seal on.

Before adding the seal to the snow border with foam tape, I took the Whimsy Stamps Snow Flurry clear stamp set and stamped some of the snowflakes with pink ink over the woodgrain paper. I added this layered panel onto a piece of the new digital papers this month called Christmas Roses & Snowflakes which I’ve cut out with a square stitched die along with the woodgrain paper. I took a sentiment from the Whimsy Stamps Holiday Mini Sentiments clear set and white heat embossed it and cut it out with a portion of the square stitched die as well and attached it to the design.

I’ve finished it off by adding a bow to the corner of the woodgrain paper panel with some clear sparkly ribbon and added another one of those snowflake gems to the center of it!

Here’s closer look at the coloring details. Isn’t this a cutie?! I love the feminine look to it by adding in the pink snowflake digital papers and sparkly ribbon.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!! See you soon!

challenges: