Growing in Unity - Day 5 - Mixed Media Project

It's Day 5 of Growing in Unity, my final GIU day.  This has been such fun journey and I wanted to share a special Mixed Media project.  Mixed Media is a great way to let the creative juices flow and just have fun with the different mediums in my craftroom.

For this project, I use 3 different Unity stamp sets: 

• Beautiful Soul for the main image
• Let Adventure for the backgroud
• Layers of Life - Soul Searching for the sentiment

The focal image is from the Unity Beautiful Soul stamp set and it was stamp with VersaFine black ink as the plan is to watercolor it.

I used the Jane Davenpor Neutral palette watercolor set to color her.

Now to work on the background using the Ranger Giant (#12) tag

This seemed a bit too large so I cut it down to 6 inches and used the Tim Holtz Tag Collection dies to make smaller tags.

I pulled some music tissue paper and glued it down with mat medium; not worrying too much if it was covered completely or not; this will provide a nice base texture.

A bit of gesso was added in a few random spots.  The gesso will allow some of the colors to pop more on those part of the background.  To add the color, I used Prima Color Bloom shimmer sprays (Pot Marigold, Sugar Plum, Berry Wine, and Wild Raspberry). 

 

Once the first layer of color was done, I allowed it to dry.  You can also use a heat gun to speed up the drying time.  Once completely dried, I pulled out the Unity Let Adventure stamp set.  This is one of favorite sets to use on mixed media projects as it has a variety of shapes and sizes.

The color palette seemed a bit too bright so it's time to add some of Vintage Photo distress ink and a bit more color spray.  

The shimmer from the spay was not reflecting enough so I pulled out Ranger Gold embossing powder and added it over the tag.  Since I used Verfine clair ink to stamp the images the embossing powder adhered to the images and to the distress ink.  I removed some of it to give a distressed look.

I stamped the sentiment "soul searching" from the Unity Layers of Life Soul Searching set on scrap piece of paper and used distressed ink and a distressing tool.  Next, the Unity girl image was fussy cut and a bit of the Vintage Photo distress ink was added to match the background.  To complete her look a bit of clear Wink of Stella was added to her eyes and lips.  To finish up the tag, black sheer ribbon was added along with a gray flower.  I covered the flower with clear Wink of Stella for more shimmer.

Thanks everyone who has followed me along this week!  Truly appreciate it and hope you enjoyed all of the projects. 

Don't forget to leave a comment on this GIU post and prior ones for a chance to win a huge Unity grab bag of stamps. 

Happy Crafting!