Hey, y’all! I hope your August has been going well. Have you had a chance to check out the mood board challenge yet? This week I have a couple of mixed media projects for you that I created for my mood board inspired project! I couldn’t decide if I wanted to do a canvas or a clipboard, so I did both!
Be sure to check out my video to see how they came together!
August 2023 Mood Board:
There aren’t really a lot of details needed to describe the process for my projects – it’s mostly a lot of layering and adhering!
I added black gesso to my clipboard along the edges, the clip, and the back, but since I was wrapping the patterned paper around the canvas, it didn’t need any gesso.
I used a 3”x9” canvas, and after deciding which paper I wanted to use, I cut a 4”x10” section out – keeping the printed flower cluster I had planned to focus on to the top right of the canvas. Since I didn’t want to wrap the flower cluster around the edge of the canvas, that led me to cut a couple of strips of the glittery half-sheet to use as my edge wraps for the top and right edges.
I used the Champagne Stardust Butter to accent the edges of the canvas and coated the surface with the same matte medium I used to glue the paper to the canvas. After the matte medium had dried, I added some of the Lindy’s Moon Shadow Mist from the Mixed Media Kit to grunge my background up a bit, then gave everything a spray of Workable Fixatif.
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I coated the die-cut and fussy-cut flowers and leaves I wanted to use with more of the Champagne Stardust Butter, separated the leaves and some of the flower petals so I could give the die-cuts a bit more shape as I was putting everything together, then grabbed up my jar of 3D Matte Gel and started the assembly process.
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I used more 3D Matte Gel to attach the Prima flowers, gave them a light coat of matte varnish to help protect them, then brushed on a bit of both Stardust Butters just to blend them in a little with the background.
My final addition was to brush on some art stones and Mini Art Stones using Soft Matte Gel and to attach the sentiment/quote.
The process for the clipboard wasn’t very different from the canvas. I didn’t wrap the patterned paper around the clipboard – instead, I distressed the edges, added a few tears and curls, and backed those tears with pieces of the same glittery paper I used to wrap the top and right edge of the canvas.
I used the Marcasite Stardust Butter on the clipboard’s background – covering the clip and the underside of the curled tears, as well as adding it to the corners and edges – but the rest of the assembly was the same process.
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The main reason I decided to create both the canvas and the clipboard was that they weren’t going to be vastly different projects, and since they were both smaller, I could very easily work on them side-by-side!
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Thank you for joining me here on the blog today! I hope you enjoyed these two projects and they gave you some ideas and inspiration for your next crafting adventure!
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In addition to this month’s Mixed Media Kit and Scrapbooking Kit, I used (from previous Tres Jolie Kits):
Finnabair Heavy Black Gesso, Finnabair 3D Matte Gel, Finnabair Soft Matte Gel, Finnabair Mini Art Stones, art stones, mini clipboard, 3”x9” canvas, Liquitex Professional Matte Medium, Liquitex Basics Matte Varnish
C.J.'s Corner Scraps 