Mixed Media Monday - Believe

It's finally my turn to host a challenge on Mixed Media Monday again. We have had some brilliant hosts, and there are more to come - but it's my turn this week, grin! I chose "believe" as the challenge this week, which is really open to each artist's interpretation. This is my piece - the scan isn't great, because scanners don't like anything too dimensional, but you can get an idea. I used a little canvas, just a little larger than an ATC - about 3.75 x 2.75 inches, on a little easel, which I picked up in an el cheapo shop for $2! I painted the background, and used collage images for the little children peaking through the windows, and the little angels. I used German scrap wings, and German scrap gothic windows. It doesn't really show in the scan, but there is also some gorgeous gold German scrap lace around the sides of the canvas. Just a fun little piece of whimsy.

Mixed Media Monday - Bright Colours

My daughter Nikki is guest host on Mixed Media Monday this week. For those who know Nikki and her work, it will come as no suprise that she chose "bright colours" as her challenge. My contribution to the challenge this week is a bit silly, but I felt like having fun with it, probably the high from all the sugar in my Easter chocs, LOL. I did the entire background for this piece using Easter egg wrappers. Now, if I told you that I chose some of the eggs this year based on their wrappers, you would think I was entirely ridiculous, so I'm not admitting to that, LOL. Anyway, here's my piece - a little bit silly, but fun - and you have to admit, it IS bright!

Mixed Media Monday - Men

This week over at Mixed Media Monday we have yet another guest hostess :-) This time it's Katrin, and she had chosen "men" as the theme. I made this collage using a wine label serviette as the background and added computer generated images, some cigar labels, etc. Thanks for a great challenge, Katrin!

Mixed Media Monday - Purple and Gold

The theme on Mixed Media Monday this week is purple and gold, and my friend Gerda is our guest host. I decided to use my little canvas and easel for this project. The canvas is only tiny, smaller than an ATC - probably about 2.25 by 3.25 inches. I used texture paste, and tissue paper for the texture, added a collage image in goldy tones, and painted it with purple and gold luminere paints. I finished it off with a gold star brad, gold wire and some tiny gold beads in three of the corners. This was such a fun project - thanks for the challenge, Gerda. It was nice to do something in colours after all the vintage stuff I've been doing lately!

Mixed Media Monday - Music

We have another very talented guest host over at Mixed Media Monday this week. Cory chose "music" as the theme, and I had fun creating this piece.

Mixed Media Monday - School

This week over at Mixed Media Monday, we have a special guest host again. Sandy chose the fun theme of "school", so here is the piece I did with the theme. I used a chipboard house for the base and added some vintage dictionary page, vintage music, stamped images, etc., which I distressed The piece was finished off with a collage image, a chipboard rusted star, rick rack and a beautiful lace butterfly that was hand painted by my daughter, Danni, in lovely vintage colours.

Mixed Media Monday - Texture

This week on Mixed Media Monday I chose "texture" for the theme. It should be interesing to see what everyone comes up with for that. My peice was done on matboard, and I used a collage image that I printed off. Then I framed the image with Artellier Modelling Compound and stamped into that with a swirl rubber stamp. I think I should have waited a little while for the paste to set a little before stamping into it, because I can't really see the swirly pattern, but it does still have a lovely textural effect! I then distressed it with brown and gold paint. Then I simply added some gold netting, a chipboard letter and stamped letters to spell dream.