Wings of Time

Hi there and welcome to my blog  :)  I have a fabulous piece of Mixed Media to share with you today.  As I have said before I LOVE mixed media and it is such a wonderful and wide field of art that there is always something new to learn.  To that end I have recently become a member of the Creative Craft Acadamy, an online crafting tutorial site:-   www.creativecraftacademy.co.uk  where you can buy tutorials with or without the products to create them.  I bought both for this project.
    

The products are are also available from The Craft Box   (www.craftbox.co.uk)  It was so exciting to recieve that box of goodies!  I shall not be writing a step by step tutorial for this project as it can be found at the Craft Acadamy website, but I have several pictures of this beautiful project and I shall give a brief desription.

This project begins with an MDF substrate, onto which several layers of products including white gesso, crackle paste, and some spray paints were added.  

 The next step is adding another couple of layers, in fact this whole project is about layers and colours.  The kit includes some lovely chipboard and MDF items from SnipArt which can be coloured with paints, sprays, waxes or whatever you like.  

A chipboard grid was  sprayed lightly with one of the colours and partially adhered to the background.  An MDF tag  was layered as before, then using a stencil from the kit and a couple of other products that I made a texture paste with, a lovely raised pattern was added to the tag.  The tag was then attached to the background over the gridwork. 

A chipboard decorative moth was coloured with a pink spray ink and attached to the tag, then a pair of MDF wings which were left bare.  A fob watch bezel was then attached and filled with some glass beads.  I attached a Steampunk glass cabochon from my stash in the center of the watch.  

The final layer of this fabulous project is to add a bit more decoration, with metal embellishments and micro beads.

 I added some gold gilding wax around the edges of the panel and in a few places on the embellishments.

 I am really delighted with my piece of mixed media, and I learnt a lot from the tutorial too!  I have already bought another couple of projects with their kits and I can't wait to start playing!

Thank you for visiting my blog today, I hope that you've enjoyed this post, feel free to continue browsing, and I hope you'll pop back again soon  :)