Mixed Media?

Hello Paper Trunkers!

Today I'm sharing my first attempt at Mixed Media Art. I've had this piece of canvas for a long time. It was actually a painting that I bought at Burlington Coat Factory a long time ago. So inexpensive (love those kind of buys don't you?). It was an abstract music themed piece. It went well in our "pool room" that we had before triplets. But as the trips have gotten older, we turned our pool room into a play room. As we took down all of our music/jazz themed decor I saw this canvas and decided to try to do something with it.

And here's what I came up with...

I first started by painting the whole

canvas white. Then used some glimmer mist

and paints to jazz up the edges of the canvas.

"Learn and Grow" is the theme for this project.

I used quite a few Paper lines.

My goal was to make it colorful and fun, what a play room

is all about right?

The pictures of the triplets are about 5 months old,

but I love these pictures of each of them. Their smiles

just warm my heart. They're simply fastened with

a brad, so as to easily change it out when another

picture comes along.

For the tree, I cut out a bunch of hearts using my

handy dandy cricut and then used this flower tutorial

to mimick tree leaves.

leaves: Jelly Bean line, Rockabilly line

Made some Simple Scrunch Rosettes to give

some dimension around the tree trunk.

Rosettes: Jellybean line, Rockabilly line, Krafty line

Thanks for stopping by! Hope this post inspired you to go out and dabble a little in mixed media if you haven't already. :)