My first Mixed Media Layout

Hello lovely ladies,

I am soo excited to share my first mixed media layout. This pic was taken during my son's first tonsure ceremony. Lots of celebration and one of my fav pic.

I really enjoyed playing with different mediums and am now very keen on collecting more sprays & pastes 😀😀😀 A crafters' heart will always want more right?

The pics first as always, 

The Layout

The Background

I started my layout on a piece of foam board measuring 8 x 6 inches. I dint have a canvas board. I layered the base with a coat of gesso... surely gesso gives the needed texture. Then directly on the gesso(after drying ofcourse) i started sponging peeled paint and worn lipstick Distress inks. 

Once satisfied, i stamped the bg with a script stamp with Hero arts shadow ink (green colour). Wanting to add to the bg, I choose a stencil that i once picked up from my local stationery shop and added gesso through it.

I guess any textured/modelling paste would have given more volume but for more gesso did fine for me.

I wanted to add my fav honey comb design but i only had Tim Holtz stencil, so i decided to use it as a stamp, i applied mild DI on it and pressed it to my bg, And now i used this as an outline and drew on it with an Emboss It pen and heat embossed it gold

Still not satisfied i splashed some black and gold paint on the bg. And now i was satisfied.

The photo which was by the side also got some paint splashes by mistake but it looked gorgeous to me, so i just left it as it is.😃

Close up of the BG

The bg was the scariest part. Having been done with it, I arranged and rearranged the elements to my safisfaction. The flowers are stamped on Papericious Sigma cardstock and coloured with Distress inks. Loved the beautiful smooth cardstock. Perfect one.

The flowers

I also added some papericious green square sequins. By mistake a sequin fell off wen it was half dry and i found that it made a gorgeous texture with the fevicol. So i scrapped off a few more sequins to reveal nice texture. 

The bird is paper pierced from a DCWV Mariposa stack. Everything else is mostly from my stash and scrap. Beads, diecuts, corrugated wrap sheet, gold thread, lace, charms and pp.

Popped the flowers with foam dots

Another close up

ok thats it. So did you like it. Any ideas or tips for this novice at mixed media?
Thanks for dropping by today and do share ur comments.
Hugs
Sujana

Entering it for
Papericious- Make it 3D
SSS Wed Challenge # ATG
Allsorts Challenge #400 lets celebrate

Baby 1st Year LO

hello ppl,

The Indian weekend was busy with the festival of Pongal and Makar Sankaranthi, brushed with the colours of Earth and Nature. Family gatherings and get togethers had promised a happy picture. And so am a lil late for my post here.

Today am posting a fun baby LO. Its actually a customised photo frame for a friend of mine. Here are the pics,

I was asked to put up all 12 months' pic of the lil one in a single frame. And so i came up with this. I used Papericious baby chipboard set for this project. It goes well with any baby LO and it has many yummy designs and words. It simply made my job easy and perfect.

The name & numbers are cameo cut. It comes in useful at times like these.

Below are some close ups,

Banners & baby chipboard

Balloons & CUTE chipboard

polka dots & BUNDLE OF JOY chipboard

buttons, lace & diecuts

Framed LO

Here it is, all ready to be hung as a forever memory. And yes, the LO is a huge one. 15 x 15 inches. It was a gift for the lil ones' 1st birthday.

Hope you liked it. Thanks for dropping by.

Linking it to
Papericious # Jan- make it 3D

YOU & ME Layout

Happy Monday all!!

Happy to share a LO today,

YOU & ME Layout

I loved this PP from prima and exclusively did this LO for the sake of the PP. Love it to bits. The only tedious work was to fussy cut the wordings. The wordings were actually from an previous gift my husband gave me. Gave a new feel to those. 

I started out with the photo placement and the wordings. Rest fell into place easily. The butterflies u see near the cycle is paper pierced from another pp. 

Charms, MDF, washi, heart blings, heart paper clip, twine and some distressing/stamping and finally am done.

Close up view

Hope u liked it. Thanks for stopping by today.

Have a great week ahead

Sujana

Magical Memories

Hiya everyone....

Recently i tried a quilled anniversary layout which can be framed. It was for my sis, she wanted to gift her hubby. I was more than happy with the outcome because i was in soo much deliberation abt the design & neatness. Ok here are the pics

The framed layout

A clearer view without the frame

Side view of the dimensional flowers

Close up of the quilled malaysian flower



Gorgeous 3 layer flower



Quilled love birds

Hope the pictures say it all. ill try to update details when i have time. Thanks a lot for visiting my blog and for ur wonderful comments

Linking it to

Lulupu #21 magical memories