Experiment | Mixed Media tags | Clique Kits

Good morning everyone!! I am sharing some canvas tags with you today and some mixed media. Mixed media is something I've done in the past, not very much mind you and I barely ever share it when I do do it. I'm not quite sure of myself all the time when it comes to mixed media. But this month I wanted to try something new to me. So I pulled my Me Time kit along with some Heidi Swapp canvas tags and distressed oxides from the shop and went to playing.

I dug into my stash as well and pulled some great stamps from Coco&Reno and some Liquitex glass beads texture get. This texture gel I have had FOVEVER!! And have never used it, so I figured why not right? I'm trying new things so I might as well really go for it lol.

​I jumped in with the glass bead gel, not sure if this was how I was supposed to do, but I did. I used a stencil and ran it through that. Once all my tags dried, I pulled out my distressed oxides, Clique Chromatics | Blooms Distress Oxide Set | Ranger, Clique Chromatics | Forest Distress Oxide Set | Ranger, and Clique Chromatics | Ocean Distress Oxide Set | Ranger. I smashed them on to a scrap piece of plastic packaging. After adding water to them I tried to smush the tags into my little puddles, but with the bead gel on there, there was a little too much dimension to work the way I wanted. So, I flipped them back over and went in with my water brush.

The water brush helped a lot. It allowed me to have more control with adding the amount of color I wanted to the tags. After I hit those with my heat gun, I used some of my label stamps and a background stamp with my stazOn ink, until I was happy with the way things were looking. Then it was in to my kit. I pulled paper and cut some tags out with my dies and layered them with labels from the kit. I added some other die cuts and then pulled the beautiful Alexandra Renken and Altenew dies and went to layering then till I got them the way I wanted.

I finished my tags off by stamping some sentiments and adding them to my tags. I hope you enjoyed these tags. I have to say I really did like playing with them. And it allows me to try new things and be ok enough to be willing to try new things as well.

Get Happy | Clique Kits International

Hello everyone!! I hope your having a fantastic morning!! Last week was crazy for me, so I'm hoping that with this week, things might calm down a bit. And to start that for me, I decided to do a little scrapping!

I had the Sunkissed Sampler kit along with the Sunkissed Modern Documenter kit sitting here and with all these bright colors and fun pieces, I wanted to play with it so bad. So I pulled it out and started to play. I wanted this picture of my daughter playing on a slip-n-slide to be the center. So I started building from there. I took the strips from a few of the papers in the kit and cut them down so they would look like rainbow streams coming out from under the picture, ruffed up the edges to add texture to the page.

I backed my photo with some white tissue paper, a few of the cards from the documenter set and then popped it up on some 3d adhesive.

I pulled out all the pretties(AKA the ephemera packs and stickers) and started going threw them. I have to be honest, this took me way to much time, but I love to look and play with all the pieces. Anyways, once I decided what I wanted to do I started placing flowers on the paper that matched. I popped in a cloud, since I had went with a rainbow theme under my photo. I slid a tab to the top of my photo. I felt like it needed a bit more so, I grabbed the pretty cloud paper from the kit and cut a strip of it too, ruffing up the edges like the other papers and popped a few ephemera pieces there too.

I kept looking at the layout, thinking it needs something else. So I went on the hunt. I pulled out my Amy Tangerine Brave and Bold watercolor set and decided to use a few of the blues to add some splattering and a little bit of a water touch to the layout, since my daughter was playing in a slip-n-slide in the photo. Once I finished that I finally taped everything down and my layout was done. I hope you enjoyed this layout and I would love to see what you create with these kits too!! Make sure if you post them on Instagram to tag us so we can see your great work. And make sure to remember we also have a great facebook group that we'd love to have you as a part of. Make sure to got check out the Clique Kits International shop for all the great kits and to see everything new thats coming it!! Clique kits Products used: Sunkissed | Sampler kit Sunkissed | Modern Documenter Amy Tangerine | Brave&Bold | Watercolor set