Journal Page

Hello everyone,

We're back today with a great tutorial and inspiration for the ongoing challenge.

Today we'll take you through the process of creating a journal page.

First prep the page with white gesso.

Next, use a stencil with modelling paste. We focused on the opposite corners.  

We then used another stencil with the same paste for added texture.

Next, sprinkle some magicals and shaker powders and spritz them with water. 

Then layers all your elements and stick them.

Mix a little black gesso with water and add splatter. Use a cap to add some circles on the page with the same gesso.

Here is the completed journal page. 

Hope you're inspired!

Looking forward to seeing your creations!

We now have a facebook group for these challenges, so make sure to drop by there- https://www.facebook.com/groups/248263305651352/

And Fly Again Mixed Media Panel

Hello everyone, Deb here today to share a quick little tutorial with you on how I made my 'And Fly Again' mixed media panel for our current Love with the twist of adding Wings challenge.

I was lucky enough to be gifted with some of Tim Holtz's new Idea-ology releases when I attended the Association For Creative Industries (formerly the Craft and Hobby Association) Creativation 2017 trade show in Phoenix last month and was itching to use them so that became my jumping off point.

Tim's new Idea-ology is all being released this month so you won't have long to wait to get your hands on these beauties, never fear!

I started out with a piece of cardstock cut about 5" x 8" and coloured it with Distress stains and sprays in various shades of blue, adding spritz and flick with water and some script background stamping here and there.  I then used an individual alphabet stamp set from my stash, Ranger's Embossing pen in black and clear embossing powder to hand stamp the sentiment across the top of the panel.

I fussy cut one of Tim Holtz's Found Relatives and tinted her slightly with Distress markers.  Some butterfly wings from the new Botanical Layers pack were added to the figure and a heart stud from my stash was coloured with alcohol inks and placed in her hands.

Letters to spell the word 'love' were selected from the new Alpha Transparent Tiles.  The white was a little stark for my design so I coloured the tiles with a combination of Mushroom and Pitch Black alcohol inks and then used a cotton tipped swab dipped in rubbing alcohol to clean the alcohol ink from the clear portion of the letters.

More white cardstock was coloured with multiple colours of red and pink Distress inks, stains and sprays and then hearts were die cut using the Tim Holtz Shape Strips and Simon Says Stamps Holiday Shapes dies.

I wanted to mount this panel into my art journal but it seemed to be needing a bit of a frame so I chose a piece of brown typography paper from Bo Bunny's Beautiful Dreamer paper collection and mounted it behind the Distress coloured panel.

And then I assembled all the bits and bobs, the Alpha Transparent Tiles were adhered along the bottom of the panel.

The lovely winged girl was mounted onto some black fun foam and positioned on top of the Transparent Tiles.

Some more butterflies from the Botanical Layers pack were scattered about and a few strips of Design Tape from the new Butterfly collection were adhered to the panel as well.

And last but not least, the die cut hearts were scattered here and there, completing my mixed media art journal panel.

Hope that you have enjoyed seeing how I put my project together and that I've given you a few ideas on how to use some of those wonderful new Idea-ology releases that are about to come your way!

I also hope that you will enter our February challenge, Love with the twist of adding Wings, I always love to see what you link up with us.  Sadly this will be my last post here as part of the Mixed Media Mojo design team but you can be sure I will be popping in regularly to see what you are creating!  I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Maria so very much for asking me to be on her team this last year, it's been so much fun and I've enjoyed each and every minute.  Hope that I will continue to see you all around Blogland and as always, happy creating!

Deb xo

Happy New Year Mixed Media Card

Hello everyone and thanks for stopping by today.  Deb here and I've got a quick tutorial for you on how I made my Happy New Year's mixed media card for our current challenge, New with the twist of Clocks.

If you recall, this is what my card looked like:

and here's the quick and easy tutorial!

I started out my colouring a piece of 110 lb white cardstock with multiple colours of Distress inks in various shades of blue with some drips and drops of water added.  The Distress inks are water reactive which is going to come in handy, more on that soon!

Next I stenciled the 'City Scapes' skyline and reflection stencil from Stencil Girl Products onto my prepared cardstock with Ranger Matte Texture paste and set it aside to dry.

And this is where the water reactive properties of the Distress inks come into play, as the texture paste dries the water in the paste reacts with the Distress inks, drawing some of the colour into the white paste.  An effortless way to coordinate your texture paste stenciled images perfectly!

It wouldn't be New Year's Eve without a fireworks display so I stamped 'The Works' fireworks stamp from Emerald Creek Craft Supplies multiple times, embossing it first with white embossing powder and then offsetting the stamp slightly and embossing it with gold and silver embossing powders.  I made sure to stamp a few light gold and silver fireworks down into the watery reflection at the bottom of the card.

To incorporate the clocks twist into my card, I die cut a Tim Holtz Movers and Shapers Pocket Watch from heavy cardsotck and embossed it with Emerald Creek Craft Supplies Hammered Metal embossing powder.  The midnight clock face was a digital image I had in my stash, so I just printed it out onto white card and punched it out with a circular punch.

The Happy New Year sentiment was die cut with Tim Holtz's Alphanumeric dies, once from black card and once from white, and the letters offset slightly to add a white highlight behind the sentiment.

And that was it!  I cut some gold metallic scrapbook paper about 1/4" larger on all sides than the embossed card and mounted it onto a card blank made from black cardstock.   Everything was adhered together and the card was complete.

Thanks for stopping by and hope you have been inspired to enter our New with the twist of Clocks challenge, you still have a few days to enter!  Can't wait to see what you make to link up and as always, happy creating!

Deb xo

Autumnal Loom

This month Theme is Autumn Twist Metallics.

 

I added some pigment powders into a water filled spray bottle and shook it gently to mix.The pigment powder leaves a lovely sparkly sheen on the paper

I sprayed the watercolour paper and also added some watercolours in Autumnal shades. I stamped the sentiment using a metallic inkpad in Mineral.

 

I decided to create a loom and weave it with leaves, berries etc from the forest, along with my chosen sentiment.

 

I hope that you will enjoy creating something for this months challenge.

 

 

 

Guest Designer Ann Chuang

Today we Welcome our Guest Designer the extremely talented Ann Chuang.I would like to say a special thank you to Ann, as she very kindly sent me her wonderful project early so I could schedule it before my op.

Hello everyone!

My name is Ann Chuang. I live in Taiwan. I am a junior high school math teacher and a mom. I started crafting about 2012. At that time, I started making very simple cards that would take me hours to make, but the look of pure joy that people give you after receiving a handmade card is worth every second! Now, I also love to dabble in Mixed Media. I have always liked creating, inspiration comes from random places. I have no set style and don't really want to. I'm looking forward to sharing my creations with all of you!

Give the historians something to write about

Hi everyone, Ann is here today for Mixed Media Wednesday to share a project with you that was inspired by Dina Wakley’s Art Journal Freedom Chapter 7 Contrast with color.

I have a quick tutorial on how I made my mixed media art journal, hope you will enjoy it.

 

1.Cover the page with Gesso. Let it dry.

2.Paint the middle third of page with ruby Acrylic Paints.

3.Place a stencil over the painted areas. Use a damp rag to rub through the stencil and remove some of the paint.

4.Dab lime Acrylic Paints through the stencils on the right side.

 

 

5.Adhere washi tape on the lower edge and stamped randomly.

6.Stamp a focal image and sentiment onto the smooth white cardstock. Cut out them. I used a white poster paint Sharpie to outline the image.

7.Glue the focal image and the sentiment onto the page.

8.Stamp the handwritten word along the image left edge.

I would like to thank Jannet and the rest of the talented Design Team for allowing me to craft along side them today! It has been such a pleasure working with you!

 

Guest Designer Sara Emily

Today we welcome our amazingly talented Guest Designer Sara Emily from Saras's Closet.

Autumn is my favorite time to craft, so I was really inspired by the theme 'Harvest With a Twist of Adding Fruit' and pulled out some fall colors, stamps, a stencil and embossing folder.

For my leafy background panel, I started with a card stock scrap cut to size for a card.I applied Spiced Marmalade Distress ink to the raised side of Tim Holtz embossing folder and embossed the card.. I cut another piece of scrap using Tim's Tattered Leaves die and used the cut leaves as a mask.I stamped with a Tim Holtz script stamp in sepia Archival ink, then blended with Fossilized Amber Distress ink.Leaving the masks in place, I placed Tim's Flourish stencil over the left side of the card and applied Ranger Transparent Matte Paste. I sprinkled on clear micro beads and Clear Rock Candy Distress glitter while the paste was still wet. I removed the stencil and washed it immediately. When the panel was dry, I repeated the same process to the right side.

Removing the masks, I painted the leaves with a water pen and Distress crayons in Peeled Paint, Mustard Seed, Spiced Marmalade, Vintage Photo, and Rusty Hinge. I just got Pumpkin Spice Distress ink after this step, so I applied some randomly to the background with a water pen. When the card was completely dry, I replaced the masks and blended with Vintage Photo ink and lightly wiped off the stenciled areas with a damp cloth. I dribbled some water for some aging, and dried. I splashed on coordinating inks and applied Distress Crazing randomly. It's a mixed media mess at this point but most of it will be covered up, so no worries.

If you would like to see how I made my embellishments and wood grain backing panel, I welcome you to pop over to my blog, sarascloset.

I would like to thank Jannet and the rest of the talented Design Team for allowing me to craft along side them today! It has been such a pleasure working with you!

 

Fruits Of Our Labours Mixed Media Canvas

Hello and welcome, Deb here today for Mixed Media Wednesday to share a project with you that was inspired by our August challenge, Harvest with the twist of adding Fruit.

I have a quick tutorial on how I made my 'Fruits Of Our Labours' mixed media canvas, hope you will enjoy it.

I started out with a 5" x 7" flat artists canvas and added die cut letters to spell out my words.  I have A LOT of die cut letters from previous projects that I hoard keep in my stash so I used them and didn't worry about what material or colour they'd been die cut from as I intended to cover everything with gesso.  I layered three of each letter together for some dimension and adhered them to the canvas.

The wide serif letters are from Tim Holtz's Boardwalk die and the narrow sans serif letters are from his Alphanumeric dies.  I gave the whole canvas a coat of gesso and let it dry.

Sprays and drips with Distress spray stain in shades of yellow and orange came next along with some spritzes of water to blend the colours.

After the stain had dried, I sealed the whole canvas with Distress Matte collage medium and then intensified the colours by scribbling with Distress crayons and blending with my fingers.  I added some shading to the lettering with shades of brown Distress crayons and then gave each letter a dusting of Perfect Pearls.  The edges of the canvas were also shaded with brown Distress crayons.

Stamping came next, I used a variety of script and mixed media stamps from my stash and stamped them onto the canvas with Black Soot Distress Archival ink.

I still felt I needed some interest on my background so spattered the canvas with white and then black thinned acrylic paint, masking off the lettering before doing so.  Here's a close up picture of the spattered and stamped background.

I then fussy cut some vintage peach and apple images from my stash (courtesy of Magic Moonlit Studio) and adhered some of them to the background.  I sealed the background images with Distress Matte collage medium and then used a Black Soot Distress marker to add some shading.

The two foreground images were mounted onto black fun foam and adhered over top to add a bit more dimension to my canvas.

I love the addition of the Perfect Pearls to the lettering, I must remember to use it more often!

Hope you have enjoyed my quick little tutorial, this is a great way to make use of those hoarded surplus die cut letters you have in your stash!

I also hope it has inspired you to join in our August challenge, I can't wait to see what you create.

Thanks again for stopping by today and happy creating!

Deb xo