Love this Life Framed Panel by Richele Christensen
Hi friends! Happy Wednesday! Please join me in a big welcome back to very special gust Richele Christensen! Please read on to find out more details of how she made this gorgeous art and enjoy!
Hello, friends, it’s Richele, thank you so much for joining me today! Spring is one of my favorite times of the year and I love all the pretty flowers that it brings. I have a beautiful decor piece to share with you using the new Tim Holtz Botanical Collage Paper just look at all the gorgeous flowers! The Collage Papers are semi-translucent and comes in a few different prints. Botanical, the one in my project today, which is black and white and can be colored, Aviary has beautiful printed birds, Floral has dreamy roses printed on it and then Plain that can be stamped on or altered to your heart’s content. Perfect for Mixed Media and collage.
Instructions:
1. Apply a generous amount of Distress Collage Medium to the base of the Framed Panel.
2. Cut a 6” x 8 1/2” piece of Memoranda Paper Stash and adhere to back Panel then apply a thin layer of Collage Medium over the top.
3. Whitewash the background with Dina Wakley Media White Gesso. Be sure to use a very thin random layer to let the paper show through.
4. Paint the Frame and the side of the Panel with the White Gesso.
5. Use a Waterbrush to create a tear line on the Collage Paper. Work in small sections leaving some of the background areas to create interest.
6. Choose a few flowers and a few leaf sections and tear out with above technique.
7. Apply a layer of Distress Collage Medium to the background, carefully add flowers and leaves, apply a thin layer of Collage Medium over the top and let dry or dry with heat tool. Tip: when the tissue is wet it will tear very easily so be careful.
8. Stamp text over the background with Hickory Smoke Ink from the Distress Permanent Mixed Media Ink Palette.
9. Color Leaves with Distress Markers using a few colors like (Forest Moss, Peeled Paint, Evergreen Bough). Use a cotton swab to blend the ink. I like using a few colors to create a more natural look for the flowers and the leaves.
10. Color the flowers with Distress Markers (Abandoned Coral, Broken China, Fossilized Amber, Ground Espresso, Mustard Seed, Picked Raspberry) and blend with a cotton swab. If you color over the lines not to worry use a cotton swab to clean up the edges.
11. Apply black cardstock to one side of the Sizzix Foam Adhesive Sheets, cut into small pieces to fit die area and die cut letters “love + life” using the CutOut Script Bigz XL die and the Vagabond.
12. Cut the word “THIS” from the Alphanumeric Thinlits die set from black cardstock adhered to the Sizzix Foam Adhesive Sheets using the Vagabond.
13. Arrange letters and adhere to the panel using Distress Collage Medium if needed.
14. Working in small sections lightly pounce Distress Embossing Ink on the raised area of the frame, pour Rose Gold Embossing Powder over the frame and shake off excess powder.
15. Heat with a heat tool until powder melts.
16. Apply Picket Fence Distress Crayon to Adornment Butterfly and work into the crevasses, wipe off excess crayon. The crayon will stay in the crevasses.
17. Adhere frame with a bead of Distress Collage Medium on the back of the frame. Place pieces together and set aside to dry. Tip: Add a few books to help weight the frame down. Adhere butterfly with a piece of foam tape.
For those of you that are card makers, you can do the same techniques to create beautiful cards with any of the new Tim Holtz Collage Papers. Which design is your favorite?
Thanks so much for joining me on this creative journey and don’t forget to” love this life”!
Richele
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These look awesome! :)
So beautiful! WOW just WOW!
Wow !! That’s a very impressive creation !!
Beautiful–love the embossed frame.
Love the look of this mixed media project. Great job! Love the look of the tissue paper. Thanks again for the idea, lovely.
What a stunning project!
W0W, these are gorgeous. Thanks for the tutorial. Nicely done.
Very nice! Love the neutrals with just pops of color!
Gorgeous mixed media projects!
I love all the layers. Thank you for the steps
Awesome details!
The panel is beautiful! I also like the card. I will have to check the colleges out!
Gorgeous piece of art! Thanks for showing how the same principles can be applied on a smaller scale to cardmaking, too.
Wow! These two projects are dynamic. A lot of talent makes art look so beautiful.
Great projects!
Absolutely beautiful!
What an amazing project!!!
Absolutely gorgeous … the pops of color just beautuiful.my, my, my !! That technique with the collage paper blew me away too !
This is absolutely gorgeous!!!
I love the framed collage! Thanks for the detailed instructions! Beautiful projects! TFS
Absolutely stunning! As your work always is!
This is fabulous, Richele. I love all the details, especially the colored collage paper. I haven’t tried them yet, but this one might have to be my next purchase.
Oh wow Richele this is a great piece of art. Thank you so much for your extensive work description. I love all the Tim Holtz Collage papers but the Floral and Plain the most.
Love these! TFS Richele!
The flower collage is my most favourite and you have used it so beautifully – the framed piece is gorgeous and I love the card too! x
So beautiful! I haven’t seen the collage papers before but they look so lovely. I really like the way you’ve used embossing powder on the frame.
This piece of art is beautiful!!
What a beautiful project! :)
Thanks so much for sharing a great work of art! this is fabulous and the directions/pics are just what I need
Wow! Beautiful works of art!
Thanks for sharing your process. You have achieved such depth. It’s a beautiful piece. Hugz
EEK! I just love this! LOVE it!