Pawsitively Creative : create without fear

Saturday, September 5, 2015

Mixed Media Makeover!

Hello dearies! I do hope you are enjoying your September so far. Side note: Fall is quickly coming and that means Pumpkin Spice Latte season for me (I opened my Starbucks early last year for access to the PSL and plan to do so again hehe!) Yummy!

Alas, it is time for a new challenge at Anything But Cute and this month I happen to be the hostess. Oh boy! Nerves and excitement here. This is a Mixed Media Makeover! I would love to have you pull out an old card, tag, project, masterboard or embellishment that you weren't completely happy with or never completely finished. I want you to recycle it. We all make "mistakes" with our art right? Now's your chance to fix it. Redo it, hide the mistake, make it bigger, make it better, make it more beautiful or rip it apart and use the pieces! Give it a mixed media makeover! For this challenge you will need to include a beforepicture so we can see what you started with!

Here is my before: don't laugh too hard :)

My first ever attempt at "Shabby Chic"(seriously what was I thinking!). I had this gorgeous idea in my head but the end piece was NOT even close. So I revamped it into this: dark chaotic textural fun!

The first thing I did was to rip off everything on the original, (the mini canvases would not come off-E6000 works superbly) and tear strips of paper into random shapes to add texture. I applied black gesso to the entirely too pink canvas.

Better already! I then laid some crackle paste randomly and a cracked stencil. I gathered a bunch of odds and ends together to create the corner designs. The cord is randomly wrapped around the canvas to go with my chaotic theme. :) I kind of went out of order for adding the color to the canvas first then to my added elements. It all turned out okay though. I added Lindy's Stamp Gang sprays (of course, look at that shimmer!) Canna Lily Burnt Orange, Jack in the Pulpit Teal, Rizzo's Rowdy Red (the red looks pink in these pics though). Lol!

I used my cracked stencil and then rubbed Inka Gold Copper over the dried texture paste.

I really wanted my sentiment to be: Create Without Fear but the words were too big to fit on the mini canvases so I improvised. I used chipboard lettered and heat embossed those with copper EP, then rubbed some Copper Inka Gold over those as well.