Wild MIxed Media Valentine and Journal Page

Happy Wednesday!

Today, I have some fun mixed media pieces to share.  They were so fun to do because I made them with tea bags, the leaves out of one of the tea bags and loads of layers.  

I used Glazed Lemon Loaf Dessert  Tea from Tazo (6 cups over the last few days), let the bags dry, then cut them open.  I layered the tea bags on with gesso, sprinkled on the tea leaves, then another layer of gesso before I started my paint layers which are:  brown acrylic (full coverage), aqua acrylic (haphazardly), off white acrylic (haphazardly), and white gesso (haphazardly).  

For the card, I cut a Stamperia Chipboard Bear and glued it on.  

The sentiment is an altered paperclip (HERE IS THE TUTORIAL).  I used the new I'm Wild About You Greeting and cut it in half.  The foliage is a Spellbinders Leaves Die.  After all that, I splattered on some Snowtex and then some brown acrylic paint. I finished it off by sponging Vintage Photo Distress Ink around the edges. 

On the journal page, I stamped on the Snow Background in Broken China Distress Ink and the Script Font Background in Vintage Photo Distress Ink (my favorite DRS Designs Stamp) before doing a layer of Snowtex, and I skipped the brown splatter. Before I did the Snowtex layer, I added in some Burnt Sienna Texture Paste numbers and letters using an Andy Skinner Stencil.

The leaves and the sentiment were done with older Spellbinders dies (the sentiment is Every Day A Miracle Greeting).  The page still needed something so I added two layers of the Bird on Branch which I painted using an aqua brush and my left over blue and white paint.  I also painted up my Pop's house key and added it in  - makes this page very sentimental.  I finished the whole page with a light sponging of Broken China and Vintage Photo Distress ink.  This page was inspired by several cards and journal pages done by others and my extreme love of tea.  

Hoping for some Miracles surrounding C-19 soon!

Hugz,

Nancy

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