Love Yourself First for Creative Artiste Mixed Media Challenges

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This month over at Creative Artiste Mixed Media Challenges our winner will be our Guest Designer for the month of July how exciting xx

This is the very gorgeous granddaughter of a friend who likes to take selfies lol

It's good for me cause my kids are older now and it's really hard to get photos of them at all

So I just steel hers and she gets the pages which she loves

I love the washed out colours in the background and how they flowed

through the stencilled pattern







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Unicorn for Creative Artiste Mixed Media Challenges

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This project was inspired by a new friend that helped me with some healing

(it's part of her Job) she has a business OptiMystic Xzavia she's an Intuitive Healer who

also does yourChakras, massage, past life healings and lots more

you can find her on Facebook

Anyway I made this for her as she was only supposed to spend an hour with me and

ended up spending over an hour

I started with a white plastic frame and painted it with the Finnabair Patina Effect Paste Brass 

then used the Frank Garcia Artisan Powder in Trianon Patina with some

 water in all the grooves of the frame and then on some of the edges

The background I used some modelling paste

Once that was dry I used some Lindy's Tea Pot Purple Spray and some

 Tim Holtz Distress Spray Stain Peacock Feathers with a brush so it went

into the grooves of the Memory Maze Wire Door stencil 



I also coloured a lot of the embellishments with the same colours so it all blended

I used some metal to break it up a bit as well

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Calm

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Doesn't this photo make you feel calm

This is my gorgeous cousin Keira she's a very serene, spiritual soul and loves 

all things in the outside world 

Her husband Kadex took this photo (he has taken some amazing photos) in Bali 

I made a video of the process I did to create this canvas which was quite an adventure LOL 

 You can watch it here on my YouTube channel

Sorry about the quality I don't know what's happened so if anyone can help please let me 

know so I can fix it xx

When I saw the Dusty Attic Mandala stencil I knew I had to have it 

I used some of the Finnabair Impasto Paints I watered them down so they mixed a bit 

I painted whited gesso over the stencilled area after I painted it then rubbed it back so the gesso stayed in the grooves of the stencilled area

The background has about ten layers on it LOL 

I couldn't decide how I wanted it to look and kept covering it up with gesso in 

then end wiping it back gave it the look I liked 

I embellished with a few bits I don't think this canvas needed a lot the photo 

has to be the main focus so just a few flowers, a metal feather, a jar of "crystals"and 

a large crystal and thats it

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Be You

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I decided to enter the Lindy's Stamp Gang November Challenge where you had to use at least 2 out of the 5 colours in the pallete 

I chose Steampunk Sepia and Tweedle Dee Denim 

I used the Printers Tray from Memory Maze Designs I decided to use only one photo and this was perfect as it has the sepia tone to it

I started by adding some crackle paste over the tray in random spots, then stencilled a hounds tooth pattern on the background with modelling paste

I then painted the colours randomly then spraying water and drying in between each layer

I love how the sepia went into the cracks to give it depth

I used a few background stamps on the tray to add another dimension

I dipped some flowers and the muslin in a watered down mix of the colours 

A sprinkle of micro beads here and there for more texture they add a little shimmer as well

Added flowers, metal and a few other embellishments and that's it

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