Grow in Grace

Hello Creatives 

Welcome to Creative Artiste's March Challenge #91 

our theme is ALWAYS *Anything Mixed Media Goes*

My March DT project is bright and cheerful to 

greet the coming of Spring. Created using a mix of torn 

papers collaged on top of messy mop up journal pages.

a stamped and acrylic painted tulip fills one corner,

where a quote stamped and embossed on vellum is stitched to 

the page to act as a pocket and hold a handful of watercoloured 

Tim Holtz Modern Floristry die cut Flowers all now waiting to 

brighten up a forthcoming Spring project..

Pop over HERE to see more mixed media projects from the 

Design Team and please give a warm welcome to our 

new member of the Creative Artiste Team Fiona.. 

We look forward to seeing your own 

*Anything Goes Mixed Media Creations 

@ Creative Artiste's March Challenge #91*

Wishing you all a bright and cheerful month. 

Happy Crafting everyone

Tracey xx 

Sharing with: 

Art Journal Journey ~ Valerie's theme *Anything Goes*

Paperbabe Stamps Challenge ~ Anything Goes #164

 Hello Creative Friends 

It's Paperbabe Stamps blog Challenge #164 

come and share your art and creativity with us 

HERE our theme is *Anything Goes*

Today I share a page from my March Junk Journal 

a recognition of Mothers Day celebrated in the UK in March. 

Stamped flowers using the Dinky Sugar Skull Set I stamped and fussy cut 

a few extra's. Onto an old book page I traced around the Tea Cup from the 

Clockwork Substrate cut out and layered up along with those extra flowers. 

Finished off with the word MOM from the Fun outline set it completes 

my watercolour Tea cup in full bloom for Mom.

Dedicated to all that take on that Mothering Role.. 

it's a very precious thing... 

Please share your *Anything Goes* creations  HERE

Creative wishes 

Tracey xx

Sharing today with: 

Try it on Tuesday ~ Say it with Flowers 

Art Journal Journey ~ Valerie's theme *Spring* 

Country View Challenge ~ Mother's Day

She Blooms...

Hello Creative Friends.. 

I'm sharing a play day today where I used *recently* new to me 

Karin brushmarker Pro's discovered first within my monthly 

Scrawlr box I've been slowly building up my colour collection.

The image is created using Jane Davenport stencils.

 Scribbling the markers onto a non porous surface I simply sprayed those 

scribbles with water, applying directly to the image with a paint brush. 

I love how adding white gesso into the mix can change the opacity.

Even when applied onto the skin tone those delicate colours peep through.

and outlining with a fine liner really defines those stencilled lines.

With so much open white space on this A3 page it needed something 

to bring it together without over powering the beauty of this image. 

As these markers are also calligraphy pens I scrawled words, drew around 

the edge of both script and image and used my favourite colour of the 

moment *Curry* to pull out the colour using a drenched paint brush.

There's something quite rewarding about watching 

watercolour expand and dance on an open page.

Bringing both white space and image together *She Blooms*

Thank you for sharing part of your day with me today...

Happy Friday everyone... the weekend awaits!

Wishing you all a wonderful one...

Creative Hugs

Tracey xx

I'm sharing today with:

MOO-MANIA & More: #186 Close to Nature

Art-Journal-Journey: as the lovely Jo Host's HELLO SPRINGTIME

Kristin & Eva: WK2 Y9 PPF

The Green Man ~ That's Crafty *Spring into Action*

It's been all about the weather again and I know so many of you
are looking forward to seeing Spring finally break through.

To spur it along i'm sharing my Green Man

a symbol of rebirth in the hope that we do not have to wait too long

for Mother Nature to share her beauty with us all.

This project is to showcase the new That's Crafty Blog Challenge  

with this months theme being *Spring into Action*

Here is my Green Man
and how he came to be..

Onto a 4.5 x 9" whiteboard panel I mixed paints to create different shades
of green tracing the facial features of Max through the stencil.

Painting greyboard leaves and scoring leaf veins with a pokey tool, areas 

have been highlighted by heat embossing white embossing powder.

The facial features have been accentuated using glossy accents and painted when dry.

Some greyboard leaves have been used as a template drawn around onto paper 

and cut out enabling me to have more leaves to build up around the face.

Stamping the leaf stamp from the textures set 3 adds extra detail to areas of the leaves

and textured sand adds texture to some of those very flat leaves.

Mounted onto a 4.5 x 9" Chunkie I dabbed antique gold paint over those 

textured and raised areas and drew in more leaf veins with a white pen.

.. given more leaves I would have continued with an abundance of them.

Please pop on over HERE and see what the Design Team 

have been creating to inspire you..

We look forward to seeing your interpretations of the 

*Spring into Action* Blog Challenge.

Creative Wishes

Tracey xx

Crafty Supplies:

That's Crafty: 4.5 x 9" White/greyboard panel

That's Craft Stencil: Max TC7012

That's Crafty Multi Surface Paints Antique Gold

That's Crafty Surfaces: Leaves ~ Acorns and Leaves

That's Crafty Textures Stamps: SET 3

That's Crafty Chunkie: 4.5 x 9"

Embossing Pen/Embossing Powder

White Pen