celebrate 65

Hi there! I hope you are having a great week. I've been having so much fun getting inky and playing with various inks, paints, texture paste and various mediums. Today I have a few mixed media projects to share. First up is a layout that I made featuring a photo of Connor that I took prior to his high school graduation ceremony a couple of months ago.

For sketch inspiration, I joined along with Prima's August Build A Page sketch challenge. 

I combined fun papers and flowers from the Cartographer collection that I purchased 8 months ago! 

All the flowers with the exception of the three teal ones are Prima flowers. The leaves were die cut using beautiful Prima dies:

I added lots of texture and design to the background using a Prima stencil along with a variety of inks and paints from my stash:

I finally used another item that I just had to have ~ the fun Prima industrial lights vintage trinkets. The title was stamped using one of the very first Stampin' Up stamp sets that I purchased about 12 years ago:

I wanted to join along with the Craft Hoarder's Anonymous challenge which is to upcycle something so I die cut the flourishes from an upcycled corrugated cardboard box:

My second project is a mixed media card that I made for Connor who has just completed his scuba diving certification. Surely this will come in handy as Connor will be leaving in a few weeks to attend college in California to study Marine Biology.

I added texture to the background using texture paste, the Fishnet stencil, various inks, and paints. 

I can't get enough of the crackled finish! 

Both projects were inspired by the ColourQ color challenge:

I'm also entering the card in The Mixed Media Card Challenge where the theme is Summer, and the cardabilities sketch challenge:

Thanks so much for visiting my blog ~ I hope you enjoyed my projects.
Be Sweet ;)