Summer Day Canvas June's Guest Designer for ***Mixed Media Academy*** + Playing at More Than Words!!!

 Goodmorning my lovely fans, 

Today I share with you a reversed canvas that I created especially for "Mixed Media Academy" as their June Guest Designer. I won their amazing April challenge and because I did, I got to be a guest this month and I really love the moodboard...As most of you know I am a sucker for beachy things like shells, starfish and so much more! So this was a blessing to make let's have a look at the moodboard first.

Beautiful right? I just love teal, aqua, turquoise and greens to created with.

For this canvas I used some Maja Design paper from the Nyhavn collection which I stitched.....yesssss I own a sewing machine again. The flowers are by the amazing 49 and Market & the chippies by The Dusty Attic. All the mixed Media goodies are by Finnabair & some sprays by Lindy's.

Summer Day:

On the background sheet I used one of my favorite stencils {that I could not find online for a while, then someone told me where to get it and now I have two omg lol} on top of that I added two mica powders with lots of water. On the green frames I added the gotic stencil after I treated it with liquid acrylics....

On the picture you see cute little Kevin who is not so little anymore where did the time go....I used two moulds here one of a starfish & one of a shell those are treated with waxes. The chipboards are treated with liquid acrylics and a little bit of spray.

As a finishing touch I added some art stones & wishing bubbles. This was a wonderful project to create I sure hope I have inspired you with my work.

Thank you so much Priyanka Srivastava for having me as a guest designer I really appriciate it.

With this canvas I will be entering this months challenge at More Than Words I have used a whole bunch of paints here on this canvas all are from Finnabair {almost the only paints I use nowadays} especially the liquid ones are amazing ;-) with my first entry for this challenge I told you that our SON is my big "hero"he is turning into such a wonderful man now he is 16 years of age and I can not wait untill he is older I bet I will be so proud of him at all ages....on this picture Kevin is around the age of 6 years but it seems like such a long time ago wow...

Thank you so much for visiting my blog today and I want to wish you a wonderful weekend and stay safe & healty.

My Charming Dude Layout for ***49 and Market*** & *** The Dusty Attic!

Happy Easter lovelies,

Today I would like to show you a more gruncy masculine layout, with my handsome son on the pictures. I think he is very photogenic and sometimes he will pose for me to take some pictures {lucky me} but most of the time he will hold his hand for his face and says NO mom just let me be, very frustrated but "hey" I am not complaining at all. For this layout I used two collections Heirloom Botanicals & Vintage Artistry, and a bunch of Dusty Attic chippies. What do you think about flowers on a masculine layout? I think they look awesome on any layout but they have to be gruncy, burlap flowers right?

My Charming Dude Who I love Completely: 

First I cut off have a inch of The Report sheet from the "Vintage Artistry"collection and stitched around the edges. Then I distressed it and layered it on The Patch from the "Heirloom Botanicals"collection. But first I cut out the middle from the last sheet to use for matting my pictures and for the fishtail banner underneath my picture.

I treated all the chippies with gesso then rust paste and then added some forrest acrylic paint on some spots on the chipboard pieces. I also used two stencils with some crackle paste and my amazing lindy's stamp gang sprays for the background. I just can't NOT at metal pieces on my work so that is what I did here I added some hearts, a gear and some other metal pieces.

This layout is based on this months moodboard/sketch at "The Dusty Attic" blog, we would love for you to play along this month.....the prize is $100 worth of amazing chippies. 







For this layout I used a long title but I didn't add it in the tittle of this post because I thought it was to long but the tittle is: "My Charming Dude Who I Love Completely"! The flowers clusters are treated with some gesso and forrest acrylic paint to give it more of a gruncy look.

The Dusty Attic Chipboard used: 

Mini Cogs, Crazy Stitching, Leaves #2, Wordpack #27, Page Pebbles #8, Wordpack #6, Live Beautifully...., Mini Chains, Cogs 1, Cogs Frames Set, Jumbo Cogs. Barb Wire Frames and Cyclone Wire.   

 

    

49 and Market products used: Papers:

  The Patch and The Report. Flowers: Rustic Collection: Rustic Barn Large Blooms, Rustic Canvas and Burlap Medium Blooms, Vintage Shades Collection: Sage Blossoms. Clear Stamps: Gabi's Borders and Textures, Gabi's Postcard from Paris.

 

 

 

Other products used: Dusty Attic chipboard pieces, Stencils, Paste, Rust Paste, Lindy's Stamps Gang sprays and embossing powders, Stamps, Mica Powders, Cheese cloth, Gesso, Mini Prills, Ink.

Thank you so much for your visit today I hope you enjoyed my post and are inspired by it to use your 49 and Market & The Dusty Attic goodies... have a lovely Easter weekend.