Dreamer of Dreams: Mixed Media with Shari Carroll
Welcome everyone and happy Saturday! I hope you’re having a crafty weekend! I’ve created a simple mixed medium project starting with a wood Prima plate, a photos and beautiful colored flowers. This is one of those simple to do projects but it looks like it took hours.
I am so fortunate to have my little Melody in my life, but also her mom Jasmine who takes the most amazing photos. I’m always inspired to use them in my projects. This photo is one of recent favorites where Melody is looking down while wearing light colored sunglasses. I had it printed in black and white and then surround it with colors of Spring.
I used a Copic marker to color in just the flowers of her headband. The Prima flowers come in a mixture of colors so it was easy to find a coordinating pink.
I love creating small clusters of items to balance my designs. This Prima Ephemera bird and Quote Chip work together with the few flowers to create that balance.
If you know me, you know that I love texture. I’ve used a StencilGirl swirl stencil with white paste on the book text to obscure it a bit and add a raised area.
I think this will make an excellent Mothers Day gift for Jasmine. Don’t you?
I’ve filmed a video of the whole process which you can view below or on our YouTube channel HERE.
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I hope you have a delightful weekend filled with time to make something special too!!
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Such a beautiful project!
Wow, Shari! This is absolutely beautiful! I love every inch of it! So cool seeing you color directly onto the photo. You’re awesome and so inspirational! ♥
Looks so lovely , especially the flowers and soft colors
This is absolutely gorgeous–the peach colored flowers in her hair are the perfect touch to combine with the gorgeous florals.
What a charming little girl and a beautiful project – thanks so much for the video! Yes, it will make a lovely gift for Jasmine too!!
This is bound to be a treasured keepsake
As always, such amazing project!
awesome !!
Shari, your mixed media project is amazing and your little ‘subject’ is beautiful as well, she’s just precious!
Oh wow, that is just beautiful
What a gorgeous creation, I love all of the textures and the beautiful photo, fabulous Mother’s Day gift for your daughter!
So elegant project! Love all the flowers.
Shari, this creation is stunning, simply beautiful. tfs
This is beautiful! Amazing job colouring the photo flowers… I had to look twice, as at first glance I thought they were added ephemera too!
Very beautifully created.
Love the flowers and colors.
Carla from Utah
Gorgeous. I remember my Dad coloring black and white photos. I already follow by email.
You got a head start with that beautiful photo! Awesome!
I don’t do mixed media in this kind of way, but I really enjoy watching your videos, because I get to see all the bits and pieces you put in that I don’t notice when I’m looking at the whole. It really helps me as a cardmaker to remember to put those details in to help make for a more interesting whole. So thank you for sharing! I think my favorite part was how you colored the flowers on her headband. It was the perfect touch, and I totally thought that the photo had come that way.
WOW this is so gorgeous! I’ve never even thought about colouring in black & white photos – thanks for sharing!
Very beautiful!!
So beautiful. Thanks for sharing…
The little bit of coloring on the black and white photo really added the most amazing touch to your project. Love all the soft colors and all the added textures. I am sure Jasmine will love it!
Beautiful … what a doll
Superb Shari!
Sweet project!
Shari, another great project. I love how you incorporated the pretty flowers.
Simply stunning
Such a pretty design!
So beautiful. Adoreable layout and little girl.
Lovely page! It reminds me of the sixties with her sunglasses and headband. Remember “Flower Power?”
I love coloring in parts of b/w photos. You did a fantastic job of it!
Beautiful project!!! Love the pretty colours!!!
It is so sweet and adorable. Beautiful Project.
So beautiful! It’s amazing what the colouring of the flowers on the photo looks like!
The pale colours make it so beautifully sweet!
Such a pretty mixed media project love the colors! Thanks for sharing.
This is just gorgeous Shari! I would never think to use a wooden charger plate as a base for mixed media but I absolutely love it!
This is precious. Great job, Shari, on your labor of love.
This is so pretty! I love that you have colored the flowers in her hair band. So pretty.
Wow, what a stunning photo and a
stunning piece of art!
So pretty!!! I’d love to do one of these of my baby granddaughter!! Thanks for sharing! I always get inspired watching you create your projects!!
OH WOW! It takes my breath away! What a show stopper. Thanks for sharing I would love to be able to create that type of art for display.
A stunning creation Shari. Definitely a gift Mom Jasmine will cherish!
Shari is amazing! I love this project. She always pairs the most amazing colors.
WOW!! Love the colors paired with the sentiment and picture!
She really looks like a Flower child – I love the soft tones of the pink flowers against that picture, and the set up looks wonderful against the wood base – wonderful!
Beautiful picture and project.
It looks so delicate and stunning
Beautiful project!
Love the project, always love Shari’s mixed medium projects! Stunning photo, and such beautiful colours and layout. It sure will be a lovely Mother’s Day Present!