Hi everyone!
This is Karen and I am back with another Mixed Media page. This month, I decided to do something a bit different. Since the beginning of 2014, I've been taking Tam's Life Book class where there's a new mixed media assignment each week. One of the recent assignments, by the amazing Jane Davenport , was to pick three of your positive qualities and create a pop-up. I decided to use that assignment for my Mixed Media with Karen for this month.
The first thing I did was to pick my three qualities and draw three girls that symbolized them. I used the amazing Willow Tree statues as my examples and drew one girl reading, one girl holding a heart, and one
girl with a bird. I first did rough sketches with pencil leaving a half of an inch in the bottom to fold over:
then I went over each of them with a micron 0.005 pen.
I then used watercolors to color my girls:
The next thing I did was to use the same paper in the same size (4x6 in this case) and create three flaps. I then painted the flaps and adhered them to my blank page:
here they are open:
Now it was time to make my page. I took all the 3x4 and 4x6 cards from the Record It! line and pulled out a bunch of them that spoke to me at that moment. I layered them all over my page without thinking too hard
about it. I regularly reminded myself not to think too hard. Here's what I had by that point:
I then took them all off and covered the page with Mod Podge and adhered them all down. At this point, I moved stuff around mostly because I couldn't remember where I had originally put them. I also cut some of
the cards.
For example, I cut out the love circle and the words out of some of the cards and the see through white heart, etc. I added a few bits and pieces of washi tape and layer one was done. The next task was to cut out the flaps I'd adhered. I used an exacto knife to find the seams and cut them. It wasn't super-easy but it also wasn't super-hard.
At this point, it looked like this:
Here's a side view so you can see the flaps:
The next thing I did was to glue my girls inside the flaps. At this point, I realized I hadn't thought this through really well and I needed the bottoms of the girls to be longer, so I adhered some more paper to them and painted it black.
I journaled all over the background of each flap on why this quality was important to me. Then I added some paint to the cover page and I was pretty much done. Here is a look with the girls in there:
and a look at each girl popped up. Authentic, holding the bird:
Curious, holding the book:
Kind, holding a heart:
and here's a look with the journaling when the girl is laying down:
And a final look at the page closed.
Here we go, something a bit different and fun this month with huge thanks to Tam and Jane for the inspiration and instruction. If you haven't played with the 3x4 cards yet, I strongly urge you to give them
a go. I love how simple they made it to create a fun collage.
See you next month!
