Wednesday, October 28, 2015

BOO!

Happy Halloween Week!  Maria here with a small Halloween canvas!

Here it is:


I was able to take a few pictures along the way.  The base started with Ranger's Dylusion's paints applied with a baby wipe and using the small daubers by Tim Holtz. 

This BOO stamp I carved myself.  The black stripes here are by using a credit card.


I added some gel using punchenella


I used this old Unity Stamp and stamped it on pattern paper


This cute pumpkin is my own carving as well





I hope you like my spooky ghost Halloween canvas!

Maria

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Wine bag



Hello to you all! Lucyna here with my inspirational piece.
I have altered a wine bag (from corrugated board).
I visited my friends last week and thought it would be nice to bring some wine with me.
I also wanted the wrapping to be special.
I started with gluing some pieces of paper, a textile doily and some chipboards to the surface. Next I covered all with gesso. Then started to build some decoration with flowers, cheesecloth, some paper scraps and some metal parts.
All was covered with gesso, too.


                                    

I have used lots of Glimmer Mists to colour my bag, along with acrylic paints and Dylusions Ink sprays. 
My friends were very pleased with the bag and I hope you like it too.





Monday, October 19, 2015

Little Houses Journal Page

Hi everybody, today I have a journal page to share with you.


I had a very painful back when I was making the page and didn't feel like getting up to take photos of the different stages so I only have a photo of the finished piece.

I started by giving the page a coat of gesso, then using acrylic paint I painted the bottom of the page green and the top blue wiping away some of the blue with a baby wipe to make clouds. I stamped some foliage with green Archival ink.
I stamped all the houses onto patterned paper and cut them out, I cut out a window on one of the houses and adhered a picture from a magazine. I adhered the houses to the page with Multi Matt Medium and gave the page a coat of the medium.
I used some Faber-Castell Pitt pens to add more colour to the houses and to add some shading. I drew and coloured some shapes at the bottom of the page to look like the top of a wooden fence. I then drew some flying birds.

I used PaperArtsy stamps for the houses and foliage.

Thank you for looking.
xxx Hazel.

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

October Guest Designer

This month we introduced and welcomed Jannet Blay as our wonderful guest designer! 


"I live in London, England. I think I have been crafting for most of my life. I can remember even as a very young girl  cutting up cereal boxes and making all sorts of weird and wonderful things with them!

I have disability and health problems. Arts and crafts keeps me very busy, so it keeps my mind of my problems. Like many fellow crafters I find playing with pretty papers and glorious glitter to be very therapeutic!

I enjoy taking part  in challenges, and I have been lucky enough to be published in Craft Stamper magazine a few times. If you see this Novembers  issue one of my cards will be in there somewhere.

It has been an honour to be a guest designer, and I thank all of the Mixed Media Mojo team for this opportunity. I look forward to taking part in many more challenges.

Thank you and happy crafting."




Janet shared a super cool project on the first of the month and now we have some details and more photos. 

Here are the details:

For the Halloween challenge I decided to create this Witch's Hovel. I included an artificial tea light inside the house to give it a spooky look after dark. 

I cut strips from old book pages, and rolled them over a thin skewer securing with glue before sliding them off. I then used them to build my house. Some folded card made the roof which I  covered  in tiles cut from more book pages. 

For the spooky tree I used a thick wire as the trunk and twisted strips of the book pages around it to form branches.

The witch always washes her best hat and stockings before Halloween, so they are hanging on the washing line. I used some twigs for the posts and thread for the line. 

I tried my hand at drawing a few bats, I cut  them out and attached them to thin  wire to go up behind the house to look as if they were flying around. 

I assembled it all on some thick card and then covered the ground in black flowersoft.

It was fun and quite inexpensive to make. The flowersoft could easily be substituted with real leaves and twigs or crumpled up paper. You can make all sorts of things with old book pages! 

Happy Halloween

Items I used
Old book pages
Twigs from the forest
Thick and thin wire
Pva glue
Twine
Promarkers
Flowersoft
Small clear gems 

More photos of this super fun project:





Thanks so much for stopping by!  Be sure to swing on by Jannet's blog to check out all her amazing work!

Monday, October 5, 2015

Junk Journals

Last week end I was lucky enough to attend a wonderful art week end in the Twin Cities.  It was sponsored by Bella Crafts.  I took six different classes.  We may talk about some of them another day but today I am going to talk about the class I took with Cindy Shepard.  You can find a link to her information here.

Cindy brought all the junk we needed for our Stash and Smash Junk  journals.  I imagine she collects this all the time and also has friends and family collect junk for her.  In our pile to create our journal was a manila (oops my pictures have manila spelled differently) mailing folder, a piece of copy paper, a piece of cardstock, a piece of music paper, several envelopes in different sizes and a piece of brown paper bag. 


Our first step was to paint the brown paper bag with gesso and lay it aside to dry.  She gave us a pregessoed piece of paper bag to practice our technique on.  We used gelatos to color our paper.  If I remember correctly, I stenciled a design on my page with acrylic paint and then applied different gelato colors over the top, misted it and spread the color.  I imagine you could use many different methods of coloring your brown paper bag. 


The piece was bigger than our book so you ended up with a page that had a fold out on it. 


She also showed us how to make a pocket on one of our pages. 


We also made a small accordion fold out from patterned paper. 


Cindy also showed us how to sew our books together with waxed thread.  I will not explain that to you but I am sure there are many videos on the internet that show you how to do this. 

My friend and I are using our journals to record our fun for the week end.  Here is one page where I wrote on ledger paper which is added to a piece of the grocery bag.  I wrote the name of the classes I took and the instructors.


Here is another page where I put my ticket and the print out of my classes. 


I came up with a name for a little fun my friend and I were having with some techniques we learned in a background class.  We called it Bad Ass Stamping Art.  I made the background and added the lettering and coloring it in.  Around the piece I wrote some of the things/classes from the week end.  My name badge is also on this page. 


In another class Cindy taught us to draw these cute little birds and do some Zentangle.  I know I will never be a Zentangle expert but it was fun and I have been drawing birds since then. 


I have painted the outside and inside of the cover with Dylusion Paints.  I believe I am going to decorate it with some of the geli plate prints I made in another class.  Pictures of the projects I completed will go on other pages.


Here is another page - I had a happy accident with this page.  The gesso on the cover rubbed on the patterned paper.  Love how it turned out.  Don't you like that cute little wine glass and saying.  




So, start saving your junk and make yourself a Stash and Smash Junk Journal.  I think it would be a fun activity with children also.  I know have a box where I am collecting good junk.  

Thursday, October 1, 2015

October Challenge

It's October already can you believe it!! I can't! Time goes by way too fast!!  But here we are with another Mixed Media Mojo Challenge!!!

But first let's announce the winner for our November Guest Spot - Irit Shalom!!  Congrats!! Please contact me at riaann at optonline dot net.

Here is the wonderful creation she submitted:


Now onto our OCTOBER CHALLENGE!


Yes we are thinking Halloween and if you dare take our Twist and add wings!! Can't wait to see what you come up with! 

Be sure to swing on by our fabulously talented design team and be sure to leave them some love!

For October we would like to welcome a Guest Designer -  Jannet!!! 


Here is a little something about Jannet:

"I live in London, England. I think I have been crafting for most of my life. I can remember even as a very young girl  cutting up cereal boxes and making all sorts of weird and wonderful things with them!

I have disability and health problems. Arts and crafts keeps me very busy, so it keeps my mind of my problems. Like many fellow crafters I find playing with pretty papers and glorious glitter to be very therapeutic!

I enjoy taking part  in challenges, and I have been lucky enough to be published in Craft Stamper magazine a few times. If you see this Novembers  issue one of my cards will be in there somewhere.

It has been an honour to be a guest designer, and I thank all of the Mixed Media Mojo team for this opportunity. I look forward to taking part in many more challenges.

Thank you and happy crafting."

Here is her project:


Let's check out what the rest of our wonderful team cooked up:









Please link up below a new project created for this challenge and do not combine with more than 6 other challenges.  Limit to 3 entries per person. You can be the next Mixed Media Mojo Diva and our Guest Designer for December!

Be sure to check in Monday's and Wednesday's for Art Journal and Mixed Media Inspiration! 

Thank so much for stopping by! I can't wait to see what you create!

Maria