I wanna go to the beach blog hop day 3 - You are my sunshine mixed media card

WELCOME  
TO MFP STAMP SHOP

I WANNA GO TO THE BEACH
 BLOG HOP

JOIN US EACH DAY, Jan. 26-29 FOR SOME SAND CASTLE SHELL FINDING FUN. WE'LL HAVE  TUTORIALS AND DT INSPIRATION. THERE WILL BE PRIZES FOR LEAVING COMMENTS ON THE DESIGN TEAM'S BLOGS AND PRIZES FOR TRYING OUR TUTORIALS.  YOU WILL HAVE 2 WEEKS TO ADD YOUR PROJECT to the Jan. 29th POST FOR US TO SEE SO THERE IS NO EXCUSE NOT TO JOIN IN THE FUN. 

Please Hop along with us!! 
 You could win one of the MFP Stamp Shop Beach related STAMP SETS Just comment on the following blogs ( don't forget this one ) each day for more chances to win! ( You do NOT need to comment on on all the blogs each day! The names are drawn randomly.) Try one of the tutorials shown during the Hop and add your photo to the Inlinkz at the bottom of the post. The winners will be announced on Feb. 13, 2016 right here on the MFP Stamp Shop Blog. You can go back and comment if you missed a day. ( HINT: The more you comment the more chances you have to win. And comments on the MFP blog count twice. ) The deadline for commenting and posting pics of your projects is Friday Feb. 12, 2016 at 10:00 PM EST.

Tutorials
Jan. 27- Finger Paint Book Marker by Sandy
Jan. 28- Water Background by Pat

Let's get started !!

Here's the Design Team

Bonnie

 Karen
Kren
Lois  
MariLynn

Pat
Pam
Sandy 

Shirley

Toni

Vickie

MFP Stamp Shop 

Enjoy the Hop. Come back each day and let us take you to the Beach. We hope to inspire you to start your own Fun in the Sun.  Get to work on the tutorials, show us what you made by Feb. 12th and check back on Feb. 13, 2016 to see if you are a winner.

I used SUN and MOON stamp set for my card, because when I think of the beach, I think warm sun.  This mixed media card was a creative journey. A stamping conversation that I read the other day someone asked if the group "knew" how the finished project would look when they started. My answer to that question is I never know.

I wanted to try a technique called double embossed resist.
Since I didn't know how it would turn out I decided to start with some scraps, so if I didn't like how it looked I wouldn't feel bad if I had to throw it in the trash. This is the scrap I used. It had originally been white cardstock that I ink spray smashed with purple and blue markers. Once it was dry I stamped random parts of various stamps with black ink. I dry embossed with a swirls embossing folder. I then I rubbed over the raised parts with a versamark ink pad and heat embossed with clear UTEE.  Then I used distressed ink. A lot of  distress ink.   

When it dried I really didn't like how it turned out. I almost threw it in the trash.  This next photo shows what it looked like. 

I wondered if I could lighten the distress ink. So I took the whole piece and held it under running water. That helped me like it a little better, but it still felt kinda blah...

So I decided to add some inka gold metallic rub.

 What a difference the added gold made. I stamped the sun image and embossed with gold ep. Yesterday when I used the stencil and gold spray for my background there was a lot of the spray on the stencil, I didn't want it to go to waste so I had a piece of gold cardstock that I placed the stencil on. 
 So had these parts but I wasn't sure how I wanted to put them together.

So I played around and took photos along the way. I sent the photos to my friend Pam who would give me a thumbs up or a thumbs down on what to do.

The finished card after spraying the cheesecloth with gold spray, and added gold sparkly-glittery washi tape, glass beads on gold wire and a twine bow. I did fussy cutting on the sun, added blue prisma colored pencils for the eyes. I also added white acrylic paint to the eyes stars and lips of the sun. The sun is popped up with two buttons glued underneath to add depth. I love how this card turned out, but I had no idea it was going to look like this when I started.

Here are some close up photos to show the details. With all the gold it was hard to photograph. 

Thanks for reading all the way to the end of my rather long post.I hope you were inspired by the glimpse into my creative journey. Entering this card in these challenges:

Happy Little Stampers- Mixed Media Challenge.