Mixed Media Monday: Autumn

Welcome to Autumn or Fall!  It is Mixed Media Monday here at the All That Stickles blog, with me, Ann, from the Design Team.  The weekend marked the official beginning of my favourite season: Fall. The ongoing theme at our Linky Party is Fall and Harvest.  For some inspiration I made this in my Art Journal:

This is the view we have in our back yard every Fall, no joke!   There is quite a bit of wild life  in the little woods including foxes, wild turkey, sometimes deer, hares, and all the other little woodland creatures you can imagine.  This page is a combination of digital photography shot with my Fuji camera,  stamps (rubber and clear) inks, pastels, crayons and stickles in Parika, Lime Green, Yellow, Distress: Scattered Straw, Vintage Photo, and Spiced Marmalade. I also used Ranger's Jet Black Archival ink for the stamping.

 Here is a closer view of some of the areas with stickles, it is very difficult to show the sparkly goodness on screen.

Thanks for stopping by and please check out my blog: Annmakes for the rest of the materials I used to make this, and other fun things!  :)

Mixed Media Monday: Harvest Time.

Good Monday to everyone and welcome to Mixed Media Monday.  It is I, Ann, from the All That Stickles Design Team with an 8"x10" canvas I made.  This is my version of the present theme at our Linky Party: Harvest.  I present to you my mixed media canvas titled "Harvest Time".  It is a picture of an actual Russian Sunflower that I successfully grew and managed not to kill in my flower garden.  These are stalky plants with nubby short stems and big, bold and beautiful blooms.  I was attracted to the seed packet because of the deep red almost maroon shade of the petals, I planted the seeds directly in the soil, forgot to water, did not weed and despite all of my terrible gardening skills I was still rewarded with some gorgeous flowers!  Hey if I can, anybody can.  I photographed and then made this.

There are a lot of elements, mediums and techniques that went into making this piece if you want to learn about ALL the products I used to make this, please go over to my blog: Annmakes and there I will list the supplies and techniques(briefly).  But hold on, I am not leaving you high and dry.  Let me tell you here which Stickles (by Ranger) I used.  The Stickles used were"  Distress Stickles "Spiced Marmalade", "Black Diamond", "Paprila", and "Cinnamon".   I will let you in on another tidd bit:  I took the original picture with my mini iPad!  Oh yes, the picture is on that canvas it has been altered with a variety of water soluble mediums,  permanent inks and oil and a whole bunch of interesting ingredients.

I hope that you enjoyed your visit here today.  Please leave me some comments, I love to read them.

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