Flowers, Hares, and a Bird

Hello everyone. Whilst I was watching the England football this evening, I decided to create something using techniques and mediums I rarely – if at all – use. Like most of us, I have them, but am unsure of how to use them, so today I just went with it to create this collage mixed media panel:

The starting off point was the image in the centre. This is actually a layering washi tape from ‘AALL and Create’. I have never seen these before, and one of my go-to shops showcased them recently – so I bought a few different ones to try.

This is the ‘Sunflower and Hares’ washi, and I layered it onto some Distress Kraft Heavy stock and cut it down into a square.

Now to play with ‘stuff’…..I took a spare piece of white card stock and some Tim Holtz papers and went to town. Using the vintage collage medium to give a sepia tone, I created layers on the background.

I then took an Indigo Blu red rubber stamp and Archival ink to stamp partial images over the dried collage. I created a brown stencil paste using Altenew embossing paste and brown Impasto acrylic paint, a Tim Holtz stencil, and added detail to the background.

When the paste had dried, I took some gold wax and rubbed it over the top – I wanted some vintage yellow to somewhat match the sunflowers.

I then added some green die cut leaves I had laying around on my desk, covered them with the vintage distress collage medium to tone down the green a little,

Once all that was dry, I added the square with the images with the other collage medium, then found some light brown paper flowers, adding some of the gold wax to the petals, and stuck them down as you see.

As I was putting some of the papers away, a strip dropped out ‘Made in England‘ so I added that to the bottom.

Here are the products I used, and you can see the roll of washi tape off to the side:

All-in-all, a fun but messy creation. I still have no idea what I’m doing – but I did enjoy the process.

Here is a picture of the washi tape just attached to white card stock and the image the four layers create, ready for making into a card:

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Addicted to Stamps and More – make your mark

Ally’s Angels – anything goes

Creative Fingers – anything goes

Inkspirational – stencils – option to use paste taken

We Love 2 Create – anything goes mixed media

2 Crafty Critter Crazies – anything goes with a critter

Crafty Animals – anything goes with an animal

Creative Artiste Mixed Media Challenge – anything goes mixed media

Triple B – birds and/or butterflies and/or blooms

13 thoughts on “Flowers, Hares, and a Bird”

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  2. Unknown's avatar

    Such a beautiful page! I love all the mixed media that you used to create this and the little bunnies are so adorable 😊. Thanks so much for joining us at Creative Artiste! Hugs, Jo x

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  3. Unknown's avatar

    What a darling creation, you have brought all those unused elements together producing the sweetest display. How fabulous that washi tape is, it sure makes a marvellous focal point framed with those dimensional flowers.

    So happy to see you have shared this with us all @ Creative Artiste best wishes in our July Challenge.

    Best wishes Tracey (DT)

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  4. Anita's avatar

    This is a beautiful panel, Lynda! First of all, I’m in awe that there are washi tapes like this! And secondly, I love how you’ve used the tape and all of your infrequently-handled mediums–I have so many of them too, and techniques that I’ve never tried but are in my list, and you’ve inspired me to do something with them. Thank you for sharing your piece with us at our ‘Anything Mixed Media Goes’ challenge on Creative Artiste Mixed Media! -Anita xo

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  8. Unknown's avatar

    I love this canvas. Well layering washi tape is new to me and I adore those bunnies. Great idea to layer it onto card and then use that. I love all the elements of your canvas – I hope you enjoyed yourself so much you make more. Thanks for sharing with us at Creative Artiste Mixed Media – hope to see you again next month.

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  10. Unknown's avatar

    WOW how awesome is this! GREAT job! Thanks so much for joining in the fun at our Triple B challenge! (Don’t forget about our Stencil Fun challenge blog … link below). Good Luck and we hope you’ll come back often. 

    Darlene

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  12. lavenderhousecreations's avatar

    I’m like you, I have the things to do it, but don’t very often. It is, however, very effective to make a mixed media card and yours is lovely.

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