Guest Designer for Mixed Media Mojo-Collect Beautiful Moments

Hello, crafty friends! I'm so happy you have stopped by today! I'm super excited to be invited by Jannet atMixed Media Mojo to Guest Design for them today! For their theme "Harvest With a Twist of Adding Fruit",  I've made an autumnal card.

To see how I made the leafy background panel, please visit Mixed Media Mojo. It really turned out to be a mess, so I'm happy it's mostly covered up.

The apple crate and leaves are stamps by an unknown maker and were the inspiration for my card. I bid on these and eight other sets of stamps in a lot at my first online auction, and "won" them all for just $6! Now, that's a crafty bargain!

I inked the crate and leaves in Potting Soil Archival ink. For the leaves, I started by coloring my water color paper with Distress inks in the following late summer/fall colors: Squeezed Lemonade, Mowed Lawn, Peeled Paint, Spiced Marmalade, Vintage Photo, and Forest Moss, then stamped the image. For the apple crate, I stamped my image first, then colored with Antique Linen, Weathered Wood, Spiced Marmalade, Barn Door and Candied Apples Distress markers and a water pen. When dry, I drizzled on Clear Rock Candy Distress Crackle paint, and allowed that to dry. I highlighted the cracks with Ground Expresso ink and covered the apples in Ranger Glossy Accents. I fussy cut the leaves and apple crate, and everything was edged with Ground Expresso ink.

The twig die cut is Impression Obsession, and the trim is from my stash.

The wood signs started as a tag from my stash. I cut it in half and gave it a coat of gesso. For the back tag, I pulled an art texture comb through the wet gesso to create a wood grain pattern. When dry, I inked that with Weathered Wood and Ground Expresso and flicked with water to blend the colors--you can still see a bit of the original graphics through the gesso and ink, but I think it adds to it. I edged in Ground Expresso and distressed.

The top sign was colored first with DecoArt Burnt Umber, dried, and then coated with DecoArt Weathered Wood. When dry, I gave it a final thin coat of DecoArt Titan Buff and then edged with Ground Expresso ink. The sentiment comes from Tim Holtz Remnant Rubs.

The very back woodgrain panel is kraft card, clear embossed using an All Night Media woodgrain stamp and then painted with Weathered Wood Distress paint. I edged in Ground Expresso and distressed.

I think that does it! Here is another glance at the finished card. I would like to thank Jannet and all the talented Design Team at Mixed Media Mojo for allowing me to join them today! What a wonderful group of artists!

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

A Vintage Journey Stencil It! Tim Holtz Flourish Stencil.

Southern Ridge Trading Company-Anything Goes

Scrapy Land Challenge #48 Use an Image (plus use any brand die Scrapy Land sells) I used Impression Obsession twig wreath.

Colour Crazy Craft Challenge Week 20 Anything Goes

The Artistic Stamper August Creative challenge-Anything Goes

I apologize for being missing in action lately. In case you have been wondering where I've been, here are a few shots of what's been keeping me away from blogland. My sweet baby girl has gone off to college, and I was spending as much time as possible with her. We took a short trip to the mountains of North Carolina 2 weeks ago, and last week we got her settled in her dorm room. 

We had to go down before we could go UP!

And up we went! We started at "ground zero" and hiked to the top.

That became this waterfall.

Which looks pretty small from the top lookout!

Thank you for stopping by to visit and leave your lovely comments! They make my day!

Hugs and Blessings!

Sara Emily