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Thursday, April 3, 2025

DT Seguras Crafts: Believe in Yourself Mixed Media Canvas

Dear scrappers,

As promised my second design for the company: Seguras Crafts.

I started this canvas during a painting lesson by a friend of a friend of mine. It was supposed to be just a collage with simple painting on it:

But when I saw the “Believe In Yourself” stamp, I couldn’t help it and had to stop the painting and do stamping and mixed media instead. This stamp is perfect. The little messages are so inspiring and perfect for Mother’s day gift or for a nice card of encouragement.

I started by painting the background using turquoise and dark blue acrylic paint, the I added the pieces of paper with paper glue following roughly the wings outline.

Then I wanted to use the black and dark blue inks to stamp the “Believe in Yourself” sentiment, with the bad luck that I didn’t notice that my old black (CTMH) inkpad was damaged and falling apart. As you can see in the picture in the middle, the stamping was totally irregular even using books as support for the stamps… well what to do… I decided to fill in the words with some enamel accents by Rangers. I really liked this raised and shinny outcome. For the “in” sentiment I used the very light blue almost white nuvo drops. I also stamped around the hearts and starts:

For the next steps, I used Multi Medium Matte (Rangers) to seal the collage papers, and applied a layer of clear gesso (LiquiTex) to add some grip for the next layers. I wasn’t very happy with the light color of the nuvo drops, so inked them a little bit:

I wasn’t totally happy with my previous stamping job and still wanted to add the rest of the sentiments, which are a lot smaller, so I ended up stamping them on white tissue paper using black StazOn ink and add the cut strips with ModPodge:

I added color to the stamped harts using Deco Glitter marker and outlined the collage with a metallic acrylic marker.

I still wanted to add more layers, so I sprayed white Dylusions ink, dried and sprayed randomly blueish Tattered Angels ink for added shimmer. It is hard to capture both effects with the camera:

It wasn’t still shimmering enough, thus I felt inspired tHe Seguras Crafts’ Rhinestones In Aurora Gleam (Coming Soon) And Ocean Bliss and added them using glossy accents to the stamped starts, which were becoming almost invisible after the many layers:

I love love the shine in this canvas and I am sure that the person for whom (secret) I made it will feel inspired and her spirit lifted by this angels wings telling her so many loving and uplifting words of so much need self love.

I hope you join me in checking Seguras Crafts and following the other amazing design team members.

And remember the team logo, “Together we create for mental health”

Keep checking my posts in the following weeks for more inspiring work,

Love

Vicky Tovar

I’m also joining these fun challenges:

simplyellibelle: ellibelles-crafty-wednesday-april

wordartwednesday: anything-goes-weeks-692-693

girlzrebelchallenge: challenge-38-gebruik-glitter-use

lovetoscrapchallengeblog:.oltscb-172-anything-goes-ltscb-171

girlzcreativefunartofscrap: challenge-8

mixitupchallenge: miucb-76-anything-goes-optional-layers

pathofpositivitychallenge: spotch-129-anything-goes-positive-with-opt

ANYTHING GOES POSITIVE WITH THE OPT. TWIST OF

EMBRACING THE UNEXPECTED:

MAKE A CREATIVE PROJECT YOU WOULDN’T NORMALLY MAKE

Although I have done mixed media projects in the past, this is my first time using more words of affirmation for a gift.

Friday, May 4, 2018

Paper Wing Productions Design Team May Blog Hop & Giveaway

Welcome to the Paper Wing Productions Design Team Blog Hop & Giveaway! 

If you've arrived here from Larissa blog, then you're in the right place.  If you’re just stopping by for a visit, please CLICK HERE  to start from the beginning.

Are you ready for our May Blog Hop? The theme for this month is Thank You. We hope you will hop through and find inspiration for your own projects. If you complete the hop, you will be eligible to win an awesome prize! 

The prize is a $25.00 gift certificate to the Paper Wings Productions online store. For a chance to win all you need to do is:

Become a follower of the Paper Wings Productions blog.
Visit each of the participating designer's blogs and leave a comment.
Leave a comment on the Paper Wings Productions blog telling us you completed the hop.

To increase your chances of winning: like our Facebook page and/or invite your friends to the hop.  Be sure to leave a separate comment for each of your additional entries. The winner will be announced on Tuesday, May 8, 2018 on the Paper Wings Productions blog.

For this blog post, I decided to use a painting that I have been working on lately. This is the month of our Lady, thus, who best to thank than her. I have been making this mixed media painting for my daughter and even though is not completely finish, it showcases my thanks to Our Lady of the Valley and to Venezuela (for more info about the Virgin, please click here and here):

I still need to retouch a lot of the veil and the dress because it got messed up with the heat gun...

I took inspiration on these images and combined in this mixed media creation:

I took the background idea from this painting I found online:

I decided to used tissue paper in the Venezuelan flag vibrant colors and modpodge it to the canvas.

Then I added clear gesso to the whole background and white to the Virgin image and the 6 starts.

Then I tried to paint it and darken the background some.

Later I went with a little of white, but I wasn't happy with it yet.

I used some crackling paste and mixed it with gold acrylics and added some flourish to add some shine to the back of the Virgin.

After taking my teachers advice, I made the figure of the Virgin narrower...

I still didn't like my background as much, thus, I did more stencilling using TH stencils and darken paintings. I also added some Pearl embossing paste (Farber Castle) and stencilled the stars.

For the dress decoration, I decided to used PWP Building a Shrine cling stamps. And heat embossed using Versa Mark ink and Egyptian Gold podwer.

However, my heating gun messed up my white paint and let it show the other layers... I need to fix this now.

I painted the stars and the crown gold using liquid leaf ink.

I love how it makes the texture of the stars more evident.

I still need to glue the decenary and the crown, and to add some Pearl pen to the edges of the veil, but for now it's ok.

I love how the stamps work so great as the dress decoration.

I hope you liked my work in progress.

Make sure to head on over to Dana's Blog next!

***Here is the complete hop lineup just in case you get lost along the way***

Ashley 

Larissa 

Veronica

Dana 

Paper Wings Productions Blog 

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US TODAY!

&

Let Your Creativity Take Flight!  

I'm participating in the following challenges too:

http://mixedmediaworld.blogspot.com/2018/05/may-2018-challenge-ammg-with-moodboard.html?m=1

All the sea bellow the boat.

http://rheddscreativespirit.blogspot.com/2018/05/may-challenge.html?m=1

http://alteredeclectics.blogspot.com/2018/05/may-challenge.html?m=1

https://kreativeinkauf-challenge.blogspot.com/2018/04/62-vom-1504-bis-140518.html

Mai ist die Virgin Frau's Monat.

http://ainkymess.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/challenge-20_25.html

https://craftstamper.blogspot.co.uk/2018/05/take-it-make-it-challenge-may.html?m=1

Wednesday, March 21, 2018

PWP DT: SPRING BURLAP PANNEL

Hi Scrappers,

Today I am sharing with you a burlap panel I made using the indian-blanket-cling-stamp and the wildflowers-cling-stamp-set sentiment, I made for PWP, please head here to see it: The Aviary.

I used:

The indian-blanket-cling-stamp and the wildflowers-cling-stamp-set sentiment, PWP

	Indian Blanket stamp set, PWP
	the wildflowers-cling-stamp-set sentiment
	Burlap Panel, TH, Ranger
	Distress Crayons, TH, Ranger
	ModPodge
	Water Brush, TH, Ranger
	Stencil, Michael
	Gold Chalk Marker
	Archival ink, Ranger
	white tissue paper See my SnapGuide here, for steps by steps. In short, I stamped the Indian Blanket image using archival ink on tissue paper. I diluted some distress crayons with ModPodge instead of water and added to the burlap panel using a stencil for a colorful background. Then, I diluted some golden chalk also with ModPodge and added a faint border around the panel. When it was died, I added the stamped tissue paper to the panel using ModPodge and let it dry. Finally, colored the stamped image using the diluted crayons with ModPodge and a brush. To finish the look, I used a previously stamped specialty paper with the wildflowers sentiment and inked the edges of the fussy cut paper with golden chalk. I attached the sentiment to the panel using 3D zots.

Some closer looks:

I hope you enjoyed my burlap panel and give me some comments/ follow me.

I'm joining the following challenges:

https://mixedmediamc.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-mixed-media-monthly-march-challenge.html

media: archival ink, distress crayons, chalk

http://scrapping4funchallenges.blogspot.com/2018/03/challenge-111-anything-goes-with-flowers.html

http://www.vintagejourney.com/2018/03/its-our-4th-birthday-come-celebrate.html

Treasure: the beauty of Texas wildflowers (Texas Treasure)

http://mixedmediaplace.blogspot.com/2018/03/march-challenge.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MixedMediaPlace+%28Mixed+Media+Place%29

Friday, March 9, 2018

Cup of Joe Blog Hop and first post for Craftwell

Welcome to the

Cup of Joe Blog Hop

This is a blog hop featuring projects full of my favorite drink, COFFEE!! So grab your favorite cup of Joe and enjoy a coffee break with all these fabulous projects!

You should have arrived from Alicia but if not head over to

Connie Can Crop, she is the beginning of this hop!!

This is a one day blog hop, but you have until Sunday at 10pm to finish hopping and leaving your love for all of these talented crafters.

One lucky hopper will win 3 free SVG files from our fabulous sponsor this month!!

What do you need to do to win? Easy... become a follower of each of the fabulous blogs

in this hop and leave each of them a comment letting them know what you like best about their projects.

You will have until 10 pm Sunday to finish the hop and leave your comments on every blog to be eligible to win.

Winners will be announced on Wednesday 3/14/18 at Connie Can Crop.

Be sure to follow everyone and leave a comment along the way!

Hi,

Today for this blog hop I am sharing with you my first post for Craftwell. For this kind of mixed media project I got inspired by my love for coffee and a coffee cardboard sleeve, I got at at small coffee shop in Fredericksburg, TX. This is my end result:

Craftwell Tools: Cut N' Boss and Teresa Collins dies. For more supplies and steps to make this wall-hanging, please head over my Snapguide. Furthermore, all die cuts from the Teresa Collins dies, were made from used Stay-Wet paper, which was stained with many acrylic colors from my painting palettes.

Here are some more close looks:

I attached the Sizzix frame die cut only by the edges to add dimension to the frame.

I attached the tags only by the brad, leaving some movement to the whole piece, sticking the end of the tags inside the coffee sleeve:

I made a dangle using one of the TH IdeOlogy tags, a brad, and a vintage button:

I tried to add as much dimension, as I could:

I added the Teresa Collins die-cut heart and a veneer cup from Latina Crafter, which I embellished with a red heart cut with a Sizzix die for contrast.