Challenge #6: “Buttons or Bows or Bling, Oh My!” at Get Hippity with {Ippity} Challenge Blog

Hi everyone!
As you can guess this is my first post for the Get Hippity with {Ippity} Challenge Blog... Woohoo!!!
Today I will share a project made as inspiration for Challenge #6: “Buttons or Bows or Bling, Oh My!”
You can use one button, one bow, one bling, or you could use two buttons, two bows, or two bling, or what about just one only of the button, bow, or bling. You can use all three or just one or two.
The prize is an {ippity} set of your choice from the {ippity} Sales Blog.
If you use an {ippity} or Unity stamp, you name is in the drawing twice.
My project is a collection of four ATC's using the colors of Fall:

The stamp sets used:

Fall for You

Now and Always

You can find this sets on the {ippity} Sales Blog.
Used the following techniques for the background: credit card painting technique and heat embossing.
For the decorative pieces: pumpkins and leaves, I used the paper
 piecing technique.
I can't wait to see your creations!

I would like to enter this project in the following challenges:

• Fall CHALLENGE: Sept 11-24 at Unity Opportunity Challenge Blog
• Celebrating FALL at 4 Crafty Chicks
• Fall into fall at Crafty Purple Frog Challenge
• Weekly Challenge Happy Fall Y'all! at Delightful Challenges
• Challenge #76 - Autumn Colours at Digi Doodle Shop Challenge
• SISC76~Photo au Mojo! at Stamp Insanity
• Challenge #62: Fall at Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog
• Week 38 - Autumn Leaves at PaperPlay Challenges
• Fallin For You......IBFCC#10
• Ch# 10 - Fall Colors at Crafting for all Seasons

Thanks! 

Love
Julia

Challenge #5: The Whole Story... at Stampin' Dymonz Creative Space

Challenge #5: The Whole Story... at Stampin' Dymonz Creative Space
This has been so much fun. The final chapter of this series of challenges is here and boy was it a challenge.
Here are the rules:

Take the background you created over the last two weeks and make a Father's Day layout. Your layout can be made to insert into an album, as a wall hanging, or inside of a shadow box. Your layout must include the following elements:

• Handmade flowers -- at least 3.
• A hand colored digital image -- at least 1.
• A photograph -- at least 1.
• Butterflies -- at least 3.

For the past two weeks I have been learning two mixed media techniques: Credit Card Painting and Serendipity. Part of the instructions were to leave the project created untouched so that we could use it for the following week's challenge.

From the beginning I knew who I wanted to honor through this LO: my dear husband and of course a great dad!

There was just a tiny little problem: Didn't have a clue as of what I was going to do!!!

As days passed, inspiration came to me and a sketch was born.

I had to have at least three butterflies and since I couldn’t make up my mind on the patterned paper, decided to paint some more paper, heat embossed it with gold embossing powder and die cut them.
The flowers are simple handmade lollipop flowers.
The background paper created in Challenge 3 and 4 are the accent pieces on my LO and bring everything together.
Here it is:

Recipe:
DCWV and COLORBOK cardstock
Me & My Big Ideas Patterned Paper
Image: Lost in Paper Scraps
Tim  Holtz Ranger Distress Ink: Peeled Paint and Broken China
Versamark
Stamp: Unity Stamp Ser: Now and Always
Embossing Powder
Acrylic Paints: Deep Teal, Holly Berry, Caramel, and Pure Gold
Adhesive
Cricut Expression
Sentimentals Cartridge
Heat Gun
Buttons

 Some details:

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Thanks for visiting!

Love

Julia

Challenge #3: Mixed Media Art at Stampin' Dymonz Creative Space

Challenge #3: Mixed Media Art

For the challenge this week, we will be making a decorative background paper. Hint: You will need this background for next week's challenge, so make sure you don't do anything further to the page then what you are directed to do in this post.

Select an 8.5 x 11 sheet of decorative or plain paper which you want to turn into your background paper.
Select 3 different colored paints and 1 metallic or glitter paint.
Use the paper you chose and the 4 ink colors to create a background page using the Credit Card Painting Technique for you to use as your base for next week's challenge.
Submit your challenge by noon Eastern time on Tuesday, June 7th using the InLinkz tool below.
 
Ok, here is the challenge for me: I have never done this and I didn't have an idea of what it was!!!!!
Thankfully SD posted a link to Mixed Media Art and I saw the light at the end of the tunnel.  First let me tell you that I feel in love with this place, so many techniques and beautiful artwork ready to inspire you. 
This is what I began with:

I used: Deep Teal, Holly Berry, Caramel, and Pure Gold acrylic paints.

Here is my creation:

The gold makes the paper shimmery, but it is kind of hard to see:

Please follow this link to see the other entries!

Thanks for visiting!

Love

Julia