LIVE- Mixed media canvas with Copic

 Hi everyone.

Today is my last day of my summer inspiration week over at the Copic Marker Norway. This time I created a mixed media canvas using a big Copic colored image as my focal point. I love to play around like this mixing the best of two worlds, Copic coloring and playing around with mixed media. Dont forget to pop over to our Facebook group Copic Norge to share your Copic coloring. 

My canvas is 25*20 cm and my image from Mariola Budek Art Perl in Roses is printed at around 20/21 cm in height. For my background I used Tim Holtz Distress oxide sprays in Speckled egg, Stormy sky and Vintage photo. Next, I stamped randomly around the edges of my canvas with a crackled background stamp from Stamperia and the script stamp with the little post circle stamp saying Oslo from Inkado is a favourite.

Then I added Finnabair modeling paste on a script stencil and I also used Finnabair 3D matt clear on a Prima square stencil to add some subtle different textures and interest to my background. 

I glued on some cheesecloth before gluing down my image backed with thick cardboard to give it some dimension. Then I glued on some Prima flowers and some Finnabair metal leaves. The lightbulb from Tim Holtz with the sentiment "Live" became my title for this canvas, and I just love how it came together at the end. To finish my canvas I glued on some flat back pearls in different sized and splattered with some white gesso.

Copic Colors used:

Skin: E04-11-21-00-000 R20

Mouth: E04-20
Hair: E29-57-25-21-50 

then, not beeing too happy with how it looked, I went over with E49-59-53-51

Animalskull: T7, E44-43-42-41, W5-1-0

Pearl: C5-3-1

Flowers: R89-85-83-81

Leaves :G99-94-21, YG23

I colored the eyebrows and eyes with pencils

I added some highlight with a white gel pen, and I also added some clear Wink of Stelle to the pearl necklace and to some of the canine teeth.

I`m entering this to:

The Male Room: Challenge 189 - Mixed Media (themaleroomchallengeblog.blogspot.com)

Creative Artiste Mixed Media Challenge Blog: Welcome to Creative Artiste Challenge #107

Wohoo!! I made TOP 3!

Classic Design Challenge Blog : Classic Design Challenge #07-2024 Jul/Aug - Anything Goes with Optional Twist: Summer Holiday / Vacation

Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope you got some inspiration to create yourself a happy dat crafting too.

Hugs,

-Christine💮 

Explosion box - Summer Breeze

Hello everyone,

Today I`m finally able to show my explosion box using the pretty Summer Breeze papers from Ciao Bella. I made this as part of a gift for my friends birthday using pictures from our trip to Gran Canaria earlier this year. I will post the folio mini album made for the same trip in my next blogpost as it is quite photo heavy. 

I just love how this explosion box with photos taken from our trip turned out, and the papers match the theme perfectly. The lid is made from a 12*12 paper from the collection and the base is made from colored cardstock. I used Finnabair texture paste white sand and Art deco wall stencil to decorate the base of the box . I love how the sand paste adds that extra detail like glittery beachy sand to go with the summer holiday feel from this trip.

And here is the inside. I`m so happy how this turned out. For one flap I put in a tag where I wrote a personal message and for the rest I placed photos on pop up dots for added demension. 

In the center I glued down cut outs from the paper pack and decorated with flowers. The butterflies are glued on acetate strips as if they are flying. 

You can find Jacky Drake`s tutorial on a beautiful fluttering card using acetate  here on YT 

or as an explotion box by Vicky here.

I had so much fun making this, and the hardest part was to embrace myself an cut into all the beautiful design papers. Looking forward to share my folio album that I made to mach the explosion box.

CKN Design- create happy days crafting (@ckndesign_craft) • Instagram-bilder og -videoer

I`m entering this fun explosion box to 

Simon Says: Use Your Favorite Technique | (simonsaysstampblog.com) I can`t choose only one favourite technique, but in this one I used stencils that I love to add in many of my projects.

I hope you liked it and that you got inspired to create yourself a happe say crafting too. Why not try to make an explosion box yourself.

Thank you for stopping by,

-Christine 💮

Enjoy life - mixed media layout

 Hi everyone,

Today I`m sharing a mixed media layout with a sweet and fun picture of my friend that I made for her birthday yesterday. We had such a fun day celebrating her with her family and friends.

She had posted her picture on FB a while back and I love the playful and flowery feeling this picture has. She also just has the most stunning eyes and the background really made her eyecolor pop beautifully. I`m so happy she let me post her picture here on my blog and I love how this turned out,

Sorry for the bad lighting in some of the pictures. 

I slightly cut down a 12*12 sheet and distressed and inked up the edges before backing it on to black chipboard. This both framed the layout and made the hole thing sturdy.

The background I actually made two times since I managed to tip my open bottle of my Lindys spay all over. So I had to layer up with gesso with both my spatula and a brush to push back the green from all over my sheet. So I lost some of the details in my stenciling, but just made a few more layers on top and I think I managde to save my background well, what do you think? 

I also stamped randomly to add some interest on my background and I applyed gesso to my honeycomb chipbord that I had in my stash. Flowers are from Prima and the glassbeads and glass glitter I added here and there to finnish everything off is from Finnabair.

I added some more texture and dimention behind the photo adding layers with corrugated chipboard, cardstock and some cheesecloth under the photo.

She actually has some flowers in her hair in the picture so I thouht it was a fun detail to play on and placed a pale blue bigger flower on her hair for decoration. The junkjard finding lightbulb from Prima with Enjoy and the chipbord with life makes the perfect positiv sayings for this layout Enjoy life. 

I hope that you liked my project and that you got inspired to create something yourself.

I`m entering this layout in Simon Says: Add Texture | (simonsaysstampblog.com)

-Christine