Mixed Media 1 - Music is the voice of the soul

Hello

To begin I must apologize for being so absent over the past month and a half.  Many things happened to me during this time and as a consequence my life has changed a bit.  My crafting took a bit of a hit as well as inspiration was lacking and there were other things to be dealt with.  Today however, I have something different to share.  I've been steadily gaining interest in mixed media projects and have created one of my own during the last couple of weeks.

Music is the voice of the soul

I'm not going to list all the products I've used because a lot of it was just pulled out of my stash or made.  The gold embossed notes (Ranger Queen's Gold embossing powder) and glittered hearts were chipboard pieces that came from a card magazine I got ages ago and altered for the project.  I used sticky embossing powder (Ranger) to hold the glitter (American Crafts Taffy) on and a layer of clear embossing powder (Ranger) over the top to make sure the glitter couldn't escape.  The violin was also part of the set as a 2D chipboard piece, but I created a back for it and joined it together with a strip of paper to make it 3D along with adding the strings using gold thread and two pieces of dimensional foam tape.

Close up of the violin

I made the majority of the flowers using dies to cut out the flower shapes (Couture Creations Daisy Nesting Dies) and adhering them together with hot glue.  The carnation looking flowers were created from circles that I sprayed with water, crinkled up, left to dry, then stacked them together and pushed a brad through to hold them in place and fluffed up the petals.

The bottom right corner where most of the flowers are.

I used a couple of my flourish type dies (Couture Creations) to create some greenery for the flowers and the gold embossed decal at the bottom by gluing several of the die cuts together and embossing it.  I've added a few gems and pearls to the flower centers and dotted around the place to add a bit of bling.  My distress inks (Mowed Lawn, Picked Raspberry, Antique Linen, Walnut Stain, Vintage Photo, Seedless Preserves) got a bit of a workout during this project, they were used to age the edges of the main background, add stenciled images (Rosie's Studio) on the background.  They were also used to define the edges of the flowers and to colour and stencil (Memory Box) the violin.  I used some pearlised paint and pearl-ex powders (Interference Gold, Interference Violet) mixed with water to provide shimmer on some of the flowers and areas on the background.

Bottom left corner; featuring a glittered heart and a faux metal embellishment.

There are also a couple of paper doilies that I coloured with distress ink and some die cut borders from a magazine gift that I used along with a couple of pre-made flowers.  I did do a small amoun of stamping on the background with a dotty stamp and a swirl stamp using the Picked Raspberry distress ink and Stazon Jet Black ink.  Finally the sentiment was added with some black alphabet stickers.

I hope you like it, this is my second attempt at a mixed media project and I'm really happy with how it turned out.  I learnt quite a few things while I was creating this and have many things to work on for my next attempt such as preventing warping.  I'm going to add this to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog, go check it out.  This weeks challenge is "Anything Goes".

Till next time,
Stacey.