{Spotlight Project} Shery Has Some Mixed Media Fun with Stamps, Stencils, and Tissue Paper

Howdy, creative peeps! Sorry this spotlight project is a few hours late. I fell asleep editing the photos and writing up the tutorial. Seems to be the story of my life the last few weeks since I hit the third trimester. I feel all energetic one moment and then the next I'm zonked out in front of my desk. Thankfully, I haven't fallen asleep at the craft table holding scissors or with open ink pads and paints! :o)

Anyway, I had some mixed media fun earlier today in my brand spankin' new craft area (woohoo!). Yesterday Maria shared the fun sloshing technique for coloring images. It's a cool technique if you're not really into coloring with markers (or you're not that confident about coloring). Today I thought I'd share another technique on working with outline images and giving them color without really coloring them. (Besides, I wasn't up to playing with my markers today.) Here's the card:

I started with white card stock I cut down to 4.25" by 5.5". Because I knew I was going to use a lot of different mediums, I went with thick card stock -- 165# (446 gsm) -- so it wouldn't buckle much. With an old gift card, I applied white gesso.

After the gesso dried, I scribbled some Gelatos. I used Pistachio, Mango, Tangerine, and Lemon.

Then I spritzed water and let the colors blend. I tipped the panel this way and that to let the colors run.

I randomly stamped on the panel once it dried. I used various stamps from Mixed Media Grunge, Big Numbers Background, and Blossom Like a Butterfly (a new STAMP Lab set) and stamped them in Memento Luxe Rich Cocoa and then heat set.

I have tons of scrap tissue paper so I took one and cut it down to roughly about the same size as the panel. I stamped the sentiment in the middle in black archival ink, the daffodils (from The Birds and the Blooms) in coffee archival ink, and the butterflies in sienna archival ink.

I adhered the tissue paper onto the panel with matte gel medium. I also carefully applied a layer of the gel medium over the tissue paper. Because the tissue is thin, the colors and stamped images underneath will show through. This is what gives the stamped images on the tissue paper color without you having to color them :o)

I partially stenciled (using the ARTplorations Gridlocked stencil) over the panel with modeling paste.

Then I watercolored some of the "bricks". I simply let the watercolors drip down.

When everything was dry, I used foam tape to mount the panel onto the card base. I ran the side of my Japanese watercolor brush pen along the edges to finish the card. Here's the finished card again.

I hope you enjoyed my mixed media card tutorial. See you in a couple of weeks!

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