I'm A Guest Designer

Hi everyone. Yes, this is a second post from me today.😀

I'm really honored to be chosen as a guest designer over at Creative Artiste MIxed Media blog challenge for the #102 challenge. Their challenge always starts the first Friday of the month,  which just happens to be March 1 this year.

For those of you who may not know me, I love mixed media play  time and getting messy with paints, markers, crayons, and inks. You name it, and I like to play with it. I love trying out new media too. 

Creative Artist's theme is always "Anything Goes" as long as it's mixed media, and  here's a journal page I made.

I started with a piece of black water color paper that I attached to a page in my journal. To make the background I  used  a multi-flower rubber stamp and some white pigment ink.  I stamped the flowers  several times around the page.  I gently rubbed some areas to smear the ink a bit, and then I stamped the flowers with pigment ink a second time.  I wanted some shadow flowers because I like the depth they created on my page.

  Before I  heat set the pigment ink, I used some white embossing powder on the flowers also 

These stamped flower images have a hole in their centers, and I wanted to cover that. I chose a  bottle of Dina Wakely paint because it has a  pin hole opening that let me  make a dot in each flower. Before I made those dots, I squeezed out paint and used both a brush and paper towel/kitchen roll  to color the edges of my page pink. I also added a little smear to the background with some left over  paint still on my paper towel/kitchen roll.  I had also been using some gold paint on another page and when I wiped up the left overs with a paper towel I smudged that on the black also. 

Looking at my page I thought of a garden at night. To keep that thought going,  I die cut the ferns using a Sizzix die and some black paper. The moon is a gold metallic paper image from my stash. The face is made with an old die cut from Cheery Lynn Designs. I cut her out of off-white paper, and at first I thought I would leave her uncolored, but then I decided to use some very watered down watercolor paints to color some of her. The bow is a metal paper item from my stash.

I added the black metal paper trim to frame the edges of the garden, added the face, and then used a Paper Artsy quote from an older Alison Bomber set. I cut the quote apart rather than using it whole, but thought the words were perfect for my night garden theme.

Finally, when I downloaded the photo, I added a bit of black vignette  digitally just along the bottom and the top of my page. 

I want to once again thank the ladies at Creative Artiste Mixed Media Challenge for inviting me to join them as their guest this month. ❤

I'm excited to see all the mixed media art that's linked up, and I hope you'll think about joining too.