Color Conception Challenges: Nail it Down with Textures

Hi am back today with the Color Conceptions Challenges: Nail it Down with Textures.....

Let me make the theme more clear for you. We are looking at any kind and all sorts of textures that you can create with the help of embossing folders, with the use of fabrics like laces, burlaps, mesh, net or with the use of mixed media paraphernalia like gesso, gel mediums, texture paste, utee, embossing powders, sprays etc. The more the textures the better! The only condition is that whatever method you choose to incorporate, the projects need to be something that you can hang on your doors or walls- like a key chain hanger, name plate, wall hanging, scrapbook layouts, wall clocks and so on....

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For this challenge, my DT inspiration is:

Hope you like it...there are many more inspirations on the Challenge Blog ...to see Click Here.

Miss Bluey

I wonder which is the toughest part....making the project or clicking pictures ..editing it and then transforming it into a blog post! Well, for me ...am lost when I have to click pictures and write about it...let me know the toughest part you guys face...

When I started crafting I thought Vintage was definitely a tough color tone to work with until I discovered that there was more to vintage than just black, brown , whites and off whites....to know more click here.  But as I tried vintage I realised that mixing colors ...finding the right contrast was a tougher job at hand until I had to work with monochromatics!!!

Yes, I found monochromatics to be the toughest ...not because you have to work with one hue but because you have to make sure that though you are using one hue (or max at times combining it with whites, blacks, greys) each and every element you use to show itself! The elements should blend with each other in totality but at teh same time should not lose their individual identity and their importance in that project! Phew...now that's a tough job!

I worked on a tag for a swap at 2 Shabby Sisters Studio and that's what am sharing today....its had to be a monochromatic 6x4 1/2 tag and my partner wanted a blue tag....so here it is...

The base is a cereal box ...layered with a lot of medical gauge cloth used to tie bandages....with a lot of  mod podge , dylusion sprays, acrylic colors (Teal, Turquoise, Light Blue, Cerulean Blue) and glitters! I allowed it to dry for about 5 hours till it was ready to work on....

My next thing while the tag was drying was to prepare the other elements I intended to use... I got this Itsy Bitsy flower and painted it with the same solution that I had prepared to paint the base ( mod podge , dylusion sprays, acrylic colors (Teal, Turquoise, Light Blue, Cerulean Blue) and glitters!) and a layer of blue net available with me from a diwali packaging I got from Balaji Telefilms during my job at Star Plus! It pays to save gift packaging at times!

The next thing was to take two beautiful grey colored Itsy Bitsy butterflies and paint them with the same solution (mod podge , dylusion sprays, acrylic colors (Teal, Turquoise, Light Blue, Cerulean Blue) and glitters!) ....Please remember the challenge was to have a monochromatic tag with the same shade alone....of course when I say same solution the proportion of colors varied so that I could create tones of the same hue! The quote you see is self made to match the theme....as I used a lot of blooms and the Tim Holtz Clock die at the background (hope you noticed that)... I first painted a white Fabriano card stock with my prepared solution (with the glitter) and then took a print out before I stamped over it with SU blue ink...and then die cut it and added the bling!

Closer look at the sentiment....

The medical gauge cloth mesh with the clock die.....

The left over of the Fabriano card stock I painted was used to die cut the flourishes ....

A flower created with the net and a brad added to hold it in place!

Added ribbons and laces to give it a final touch and am off to send it to my friend who stays in United States...woohooo....

Let me know what you think of the tag!!!!!

Entering this for

Forever Friends Challenge-Lots of Flowers

Marvelous Magnolia Challenge-Dies

Paper Crafting Journey- Ribbon or Lace

Crafting by Designs-Tags

Charisma Cardz-Die Cuts

Make it Monday 

Anything But A Card-Tuesday Alchemy

Am back with another DT project for TA and yess...thanks to all those of you who wished me for my married life...am still MIA at my in laws place and while you read this post I shall be busy preparing for my SIL's marriage.....

Anyways, now lets get going with challenge this week at TA.....Its "Anything But A Card" so any project of yours can find a place at our challenge as far as its not a card....so get started.....

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Here's what I did....A Mixed Media Door Hanger....

Sorry for this hurried post but do join in for the challenge with your creations...at the Tuesday Alchemy...

Its Tuesday Again:Anything Goes At Tuesday Alchemy

Its Tuesday again and while you go through this post I would have changed my status from single to "married" and will be on the train to my new train!!! Finally, the chaos and planning is over and a new life has started.....

Now coming to the DT  job!!...We at Tuesday Alchemy have the theme Anything Goes this week so just share whatever you made from cards to scrapbooks ...so candles to mixed media ...anything and everything....

For this week our sponsor is Sassy Studio Design

Now take a look at what I did for the challenge.....

Loads of textures and layers added....

Used my Kellogg's Box to make the tag...painted it with acrylic paints and added gauge bandage cloth with  Mod Podge to give textures...and again painted it...added a net on one side and colored again...gosh this really tried my patience for you have to wait for each layer to dry and then go to the next one...Phew!!!

Closer look to spot the layers and textures....

Lower half....

Upper half....

I guess one can see the layers better in this pic.....This Tag was sent to a friend at Ireland for a Tag Swap at 2 Shabby Sisters Studio

Hope you all like it and do hop to the Tuesday Alchemy blog and share your creations with us....The other DT's have also done a wonderful job at their DT projects so do leave them a line of love :)

Mixed Media....Canvass Art

I have been fascinated by Mixed Media for quiet some time now and have read and read and read on the same so much that I just had to try it out....but yess ...I didnt have most of the essentials materials like gesso, alcohol inks, sprays and mists etc.....what I had was Mod Podge and an idea!!!

I refused to let go of the idea so I did a simple canvass art.....have a look...

I had a wedding theme in my mind ...but not a typical festive feel but one about companionship and homeliness .....

 Its a 8X8 canvass that I have used.....and I thought having no base color brought out the colors in the elements better!!!

 The flowers and the entire left side of the canvass is free hand drawing inspired from a sketch I saw in Pinterest...I love the site which gives me my daily dose of inspiration....and I have used all kinds of medium to color it...from fine tip pens to Tombow Markers to Staedtler watercolor pencils to some other local made watercolor pencils....and watercolors ...sparkle mist just to add a lil shimmer....phew!!! I just went crazy with it....:) the drawing was done on Brustro Watercolor paper...

The pink border is a SD die cut....and the house and the couple are stamped images colored with Tombow Markers...

 For the tickets that you see popping out of the house ....on the flower...and behind the couple on the top....have been stamped on Brustro watercolor paper....but I first colored it with different watercolors and then misted it with golden and silver mists....before the stamping!!!

 Have a closer look at the blooms....

The couple is stamped on Brustro ...but I darkened the image with a fine tip pen before cutting and sticking it...

This was my first attempt with doodling too!!!

All the cut outs are first stuck with Mod Podge and then two layers of Mod Podge layers have been brushed on top of it ...I realised that the paper was too thick and hence the edges were not smooth !!! Maybe some more layers of Mod Podge will have to be brushed to give it a smoother finish!!!

Hope you like it as much as I did.....but I really had fun creating this ....experimenting with different coloring mediums can really be exciting and crazy....

Do leave your comments and feedback....they encourage me....