Gift bag

My plan of posting daily, again has not progressed beyond day one.

Sigh.

Wanted to say a big hello to a friend who came back home after spending a few months with her children overseas. Got a few niceties together, made a card and put it all inside this bag I made. 

Black card for the base, white for the border the embellishments were made of the same paper. Except the doily, ribbon and button.

Travel gift

The challenge is now over. I am both relieved (not having to make a picture) and missing it already (the drive to make a picture)  :)

Now that I have pasted the whole month, I can just as well see if I can continue writing here showing the pictures of what I have made.

A little travel notebook, mini album for a friend who went to visit in England.

One Year MOODAVERSARY week 4-7

Today is the last day of this challenge. I have posted something everyday! For 4 weeks. By Monday I started to feel this is getting a bit too much for me. But I am so happy I continued and finished what I set out to do. 

1. To try my hand at mixed media 

2. To take part in this challenge

3. To post something everyday.

I have been successful. Some days  my tries should rather have been sent to the dustbin. But I added it here specifically to see if there is any change in my attempts and I want to go back and see how I can change what I thought was a fail attempt into something I will like.

As I heard someone said (DeeDee?);

if it is ugly it is not yet finished.

 

 My inspiration today: Row two photo five
                                    Seeing it is the last day I thought the suitcases fits so well. It is almost like the 
                                    end of ones holiday away. 
                                    Used a honeycomb stencil and gesso straight on my packaging card.
                                    Stuck single layer of a paper towel down,
                                    wet the water colouring pencils and coloured over the card.
                                   Stamping with a sentiment stamp held in my hand, after the first two 
                                    I saw the words has to do with go and rest (not English stamp)
                                  "Happy-accident" it fits in with our suitcase picture.
                                   That gave me the sentiment, part of another sentence.
                                   Made a little cluster and stapled it down.

What I used:  Card

                      Gesso

                      Watercolour pencil

                      Punched flower

                      Die cut butterfly

                      Book page and card stock

                      Stamp

                      Permanent ink

               

One Year MOODAVERSARY week 4-6

 

 My inspiration today: Again I started off with the third photo in row one.
                                     With my choices I ended up having what I am showing today.
                                      Started off layering all sorts of paper scraps, in a few different colours.
                                      Instead of using gesso I used one layer of a facial tissue over it all. When I
                                      tried to stick it down with gel medium it became a huge mess. Huge.
                                      Here I had to leave it a while. Stepping away help with courage to just do.
                                      Coming back I saw the lifted and torn away parts as texture.
                                      Gesso, always to the rescue. After a layer of gesso all looks different.
                                      Next I stapled -not trying gel medium again- a piece of white ricrac.
                                      Back to the water colour pencils. The colours did not look right. Instead off
                                      darkening it I chose to use different colours.
                                      Stuck the flying bird down, giving a bit of a darker outline I got the paper too 
                                      wet. I do notlike the water marks on it.
                                      My sentiment: as I tore pages I saw the heading on on of the pages, saw it fits
                                      PERFECTLY here. The numbers that was on the same line I added also
                                      because it just look like it fits.

What I used: Card, paper
                     Facial tissue
                     Ribbon
                     Staples
                     Gesso
                     Watercolouring pencils; yellow, two greens, two blues, black

One Year MOODAVERSARY week 4-5

 

 My inspiration today: Row four, photo one
                                     Stuck masking tape, edges (no print) of old book paper down on my card. 
                                     Used gesso on a honeycomb stencil, then lightly put gesso over it all.
                                     Using the watercolour pencils I coloured the pink and yellow. The darker
                                     colour is showing through from the paper.
                                     Added a few punched out flowers and coloured that with pencil too.
                                     The writing was lifted from an old book.
                                     A tag that came with something, what I do not remember. The alphabet sticker
                                     is from the same, tied a piece of calico on and glued it all down.

What I used: Masking tape, paper, sellotape 
                      gesso, stencil,
                      flower punch
                      Watercolour pencil; pink, yellow,red
                      calico, old embellishments.
                   

One Year MOODAVERSARY week 4-4

 

 My inspiration today:Row one, photo three
                                    Row four photo one
                                    Started off with the row one photo, made the back ground by layering a few
                                    very thin papers. In the left hand corner is a few scraps from an old Christmas
                                    tag, on top of a part of a green paper doily and yellow lace ribbon stapled down
                                    All covered with gesso.
                                    This time I gave it a white wash using acrylic paint.
                                    then came the black water colour pen, the blue marker to make a few dots.
                                    Not liking the ribbon to look so washed out I coloured over it with my yellow 
                                    pencil and left it just like that.
                                    My sentiment was part of a saying from a scrapbook paper, of which I used                                       the rest somewhere else.
                                    

What I used: Card
                     Old papers, thin paper, doily, old tag, piece of ribbon
                     Gesso
                     Water colour pencil; black, yellow
                     Scrapbook paper

One Year MOODAVERSARY week 4-3

 

 My inspiration today:Row three, photo five 
                                    Started of with masking take, stickers, and old paper. Gesso over it all
                                    then I took the yellow watercolour pencil and coloured over all of it with the 
                                    edges darker. Sprayed water over using my finger I moved the colour around.
                                    Stamped. Was stuck right there for a while.
                                    Using textured paste added a few dots, coloured it with the same stamp ink.    
                                    Tied the ribbon on stuck the 'foot' down and think it is enough.

What I used: Card
                     Gesso
                     Masking tape, old paper, children's alphabet stickers
                     Water colour pencil; yellow
                     Stamp and ink
                     Ribbon
                     Wooden embellishment - already painted