Mixed Media Masculine Card

So, I'm still new in the world of mixed media. I just love watching videos of how so many incongruous things can come together into one congruous piece. I decided to try it out for my nephew's 13th birthday. Cutesy cards just didn't seem to suit this time. I recently purchased these darling monster stamps from C.C. Designs Rubber Stamps. I knew it was perfect for guys! So, that was my planned focal image.

I'm not sure I got the whole congruous part down yet! But I certainly used a bunch of different techniques on this card:

• Stenciling with texture paste, dyed with mica powder, through a circuit board stencil. Mica powder sheen was completely lost. Randomly sprinkled silver embossing powder on it and heat embossed it.
• Ink smooshed with metallic (Finnibair) acrylic paint
• Similarly smooshed the tag and the stamped ticket (cut in half and layered behind tag)
• Stamped clocks and stars in the background
• Stenciled stars on the tag with my Nuvo Glimmer Paste (moonstone). LOVE that stuff.
• Added die cut stars (layered 3 thick for dimension) and half-back pearls
• Added green micro beads randomly with multi-medium mat glue (for more texture)
• Tried to pull all the pieces together with a splattering of black acrylic paint
• Popped the tag and monster up with foam tape

If it's not congruous, it at least has the grunge effect going!

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I coloured the monster with Copic Markers. I wanted him to look fuzzy, so I used flicking instead of blending too much. I thought about putting googly eyes on him after he was coloured, but I spent so much time getting his eyes nice, that I didn't want to cover them up! In hindsight, I should have shaded his belly a little. Oh well.

My nephew said he liked it. (And I'm sure he liked the cash inside too.) This is an A6 card: 6.25 inches by 4.75 inches. I did the mixed media on Strathmore Bristol Smooth paper. I have a 9 x 12 pad, so a quarter sheet is 6 x 4.5. Perfect for this size of card!