Registered: August 1, 2006 Location: Missouri Posts: 26785
Fri, Dec 15, 2017 @ 7:43 AM
This mixed media wall hanging was done mostly free hand. The stamping that was done on it is the alphabet stamps on my faux scrabble tiles, the crackle background on my mixed media coffee cup and the coffee stains. The cup and the snowman including his nose and hat were all free hand drawn and fussy cut. The coffee cup paper was a page from an encyclopedia that I took white acrylic paint and painted smears of paint to cover some of the words. Then I watercolored the cup with blue and teal water color paint. I then stamped a crackled background stamp with blue ink on top of that. Then I free hand cut out the cup and outlined it with a sharpie marker. I then stamped the whole cup with my versamark ink pad and embossed with UTEE and then I fussy cut it out. I cut the cup at the top so that my snowman could slide into the cup.
The snowman was fussy cut and dry embossed on white cardstock. I went over the embossed areas with distressed antique linen ink. The eyes were punched out of black cardstock. The nose was free hand cut and I used white colored pencils to make circular lines on it. The hat was free hand cut from black cardstock. I used gold metallic rub on hat as well as die cut leaves and little berries made from flower stamens that I colored with a red sharpie marker. The buttons on my snowman were little pearls that I colored black with a black sharpie. The arms were die cut from toilet paper rolls. The faux scrabble tiles were cut from a box. I stamped the letters using black stazon ink. I took a black pen and drew little stitched lines around the edges. I added glitter and pearls to the punched out snowflakes. I added brads, and two types of twine.
Registered: May 26, 2015 Location: Oregon Posts: 5532
Fri, Dec 15, 2017 @ 7:50 AM
Your darling snowman looks so proud of himself, with his perfectly placed smirk. You should be proud of yourself, too, for all the fun and love you put into your fabulous wall hanging creation. Thanks for sharing all the details!
Registered: June 9, 2006 Location: Wauconda, IL Posts: 55665
Fri, Dec 15, 2017 @ 2:53 PM
You always do such a fabulous job with mixed media Marilyn!! It is appropriate that you are the hostess for it. I love all the snowflakes with the pearls as such a festive bg. I also really like the warmth that comes from the scrabble piece. :>)
Registered: March 13, 2012 Location: Southern Florida Posts: 5253
Sat, Dec 16, 2017 @ 11:33 AM
Adorable card! Love that you worked on a used patterns and a printed page, it’s very subtle but give the whole thing depth.
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