Mixed Media Fun with Rebekah-Meier Thermoweb

Hi everyone, I am participating in the Designer Crafts Connection blog hop this month.  This month we are working with products from Rebecca Meier and Thermoweb.

I received an amazing assortment of products to create with and I had fun experimenting with all of them.

I started with a canvas panel that I painted blue.  I then added some grey paint.

Once dry, I placed a stencil on top and used the Mixed Media Medium with a pallet knife through the stencil..

Remove the stencil and clean it immediately.  Allow the Mixed Media Medium to air dry.  Or, if you are impatient like me, carefully heat set it.

While the Mixed Media Medium is still tacky, place Gold transfer foil on top and pull away.  Repeat until the foil covers the stars.

Next, I stamped a summer scene on the bottom of the panel and added some touches of color with markers.  Finally, I dragged a black ink pad across the stars and used a baby wipe to blend it into the panel.  I wanted it to appear as if we were sitting at the beach looking up at the night sky!  I added touches of white by blending gesso around the panel.

While I had fun with the canvas,  I also wanted to work with the other products I received. 

Using the Mixed Media Foam Sheets, I cut the foam into a 5" square.   Then I scrunched up the Gold foil as I wanted to create some texture.

I carefully placed the foil on the foam panel and gently pushed the foil texture into the foam panel.

After removing the foil I had this fun (but still tacky) background. 

So I took  a flat sheet of Patina foil and placed it back on the panel.  The Patina foil adhered to the still tacky areas creating a nice melding of foils.

As you can see, there is still some foil remaining on the sheets I used.  Perfect to place aside for another project.

The foam has adhesive on both sides, so it was easy to adhere the foiled panel to my card.  I wrapped Whiskers Graphics twine around the card.

I also die cut a butterfly from the foam sheet and adhered it to the card, then added a sentiment from Joy Clair above the butterfly.

Make sure to visit the Designer Crafts Connection blog and visit all the talented designers who are participating in the blog hop.

Steph Ackerman  (here)

Karen Bearse

Susan Brown

Nadine Carlier 

Candy Rosenberg

Anita Scroggins

Thanks for stopping by.

Steph

Steph's Art Panel

Hi everyone, I am participating in the Designer Crafts Connection blog hop this month.  This month we are working with some fabulous products from Rebekah Meier.

I'm working with the Mini Paper Quilt Kit which comes with an assortment of products to create a fun quilted project.

I chose to create an art panel to hang in my studio.

Following the instructions, I cut the pieces to size, then fused the tissue to the EZ Steam.    Unfortunately, I applied my tissue backwards, but not to worry as you really don't know it's backwards once the project is completed.  Remember, there are no wrong ways to create!

 

 

Using the included sponge, I sponged on several colors of Jacquard Fabric Paint, starting with the lightest color and working inwards.

 

I continued adding color until I was happy with the overall effect. 

 

Next, I used white paint through the Be In Love stencil randomly around the panel.  Then I used the included texture sheet to add more texture about the panel with white paint.

To finish, I sewed strips of fabric around the panel to finish the edges.  I also randomly stitched on the panel.  The photo was matted and also sewn in place.  Lace was added to the top edge and to the photo then the sentiment was sewn in place.

 

 

I inserted a dowel through the pocket I made in the top edge and tied on some ribbon to create the hanger.

 

 

Please stop by the DCC blog to see projects from all the designers.

 

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Thanks for stopping by today. 

 

Steph