Hi there everyone. I hope you are all having a great week! Today is my day off so hopefully I can be productive. I have had so many ideas lately I can't turn my mind off!
Here's a Mixed Media Box I decorated out of a Levis belt box. I just love how you can use things in your home that you'd normally throw away and turn it into art!
The Sentiment is From Jamie Dougherty's Bloom Girl Anneli.
I really love all of the textures on this box. In the video below you can learn how I layer all of these elements. Sometimes Mixed Media can be a little intimidating when you see a busy project and don't know where to begin or what to do first, such as painting or stamping adding texture paste, etc.
Here's a video tutorial of me creating this little box and all the different stages and textures you build upon. I hope you enjoy the video and are inspired to create your own Mixed Media art!
I made a SUPER easy Pocket Card.
I used my Fun Stampers Pocket Card Die, added flowers and a few embellishments. I did use the new Bloom Girl Stencil to the cool looking flower behind the chipboard 'Create'.
Hello Everyone, Today I have a pretty simple card to show you. It's a mixed media type card. I really love the way it turned out. It was simple and yet so many different textures and elements. Really a fun card!
I love all of the height and dimension from the stickers and the flowers.. leaving a small shadow on the colorful splatter under them.
If you ever want to add a little height and weight to your card all you need to do is glue a square of cardstock under the first layer. It adds dimension and gives your card sturdiness.
Today I have a canvas to share I just love turtles and I thought it would be cute to make a mixed media turtle canvas.. so I did. I just love the way the grass came out, the colors, textures and dimension... it looks so cool in person.
Here's a video on my project, from start to finish. I hope you like it.
Today I have a few Prima Cards to share with you all. I have used one of my favorite collections from Prima. This paper collection is called Coffee Break. I just love the way the Gold Mica flakes look against the black paper. These cards were really so much fun to make even though there's not as much coloring as I normally do. All the fun textures and dimension still gives these cards so much details.
It's been a hectic year already and it's just starting.
So many new possibilities for me this year that I'm so excited about. I'm sad to share that I'll be taking a break from teaching Copic Classes. As much as I'm sad this is such a great way for me to focus on my new Journey. Which involves Fun Stampers Journey! I'm thrilled about the opportunity that I have with this company. Taking a break from my classes will give me the chance to focus on this and still have time to be creative with my Design Teams! So YAY!
One door closes and another is always waiting to be opened, right?!
So I went to CHA last Saturday and I loved seeing my pals. Jamie Dougherty and the Bloom Girls DT are ABSOLUTELY a blast! Jamie took us all out to dinner and then we went to the Prime Blogger Networking Party. It was a lot of fun and it was so great getting to meet the faces behind the blog! I also got to walk the floor with my dear friend and Upline Cindy. We walked that show for 3 hours and I cannot believe how time flew by. It was fun. Hopefully next year I'll be able to go for more than a day!
I haven't had much time over the last few weeks with the Holiday's, Work, CHA, Family.. but I did get a chance to sit and color a little last week. Here's a quick card I through together using
You are going to LOVE these. Here's a card I created using the new 'Bloom Girl Stamp Emily' and the background was created using The Bloom Girl Stencil 'Spark'. I colored then gorgeous image with my Copics of course.
I hope you enjoy my card. I have lots of posts coming soon. I'm in the process of scheduling them. :)
We are having Christmas at my house this year and I'm really excited about it.
Yesterday I cleaned.
Today I'm going to be setting up the tables.
Right now Ralph's making me breakfast. :)
Kids are barely getting up.. well the teenage boy isn't.
Today I'm off and I will have to get up and be at work in the morning at 5am. I hope this will be the last year I have to work on Christmas. That's what I want for Christmas!
Good things are happening in 2015! I can feel it.
Here's an ornament I made using the Julie Nutting wooden ornaments. I painted it with acrylic paints and embossed in gold and used crackle accents a the new Prima Finnabair glitter. I really LOVE the way it came out. The photos really doesn't do it justice.
Prima Etched Wood Ornament - Angel
Prima Art Ingredients - Glitter Set - Luminous
Prima Art Basics - Heavy Gesso - White
Prima Metal Trinkets - Lifetime
Molding Paste
Faber-Castell Glass Bead Glitter
Acrylic Paint
Crackle Accents
Tim Holts Distress ink pads
I have an altered notebook to share with you. I will be completely honest. About 20 min into this project I was like ok, I'm done... this looks HORRIBLE! I almost turned off the camera. Then I was like you know what.. let's go with it.. I can always delete the video and start over.. I might as well try some new ideas and techniques. So I did and I'm so glad I did, too!
Here's my notebook I came up with.
I hope you enjoyed the photos.. I hope you will check out how I created this in my video below,
Products Used
Prima Marketing's Bloom Girl Sharon Stamp
Faber-Castell's Gesso, Water Color Pencils, Gelatos, whipped spackle and markers
Tim Holts Tissue Paper and Quote Stamp
I decided to make my own December Daily. I love the way it came out. I just plan on typing out my daily dos and layering them on the page. Simple but it will get done this year! Here's some photos and there's a video below. Check it out!
I also took the little mini files that come with the card boxes from Michaels and added them as pages, just for another type of element to the pages.
Lili of the Valley has done it again with another gorgeous "I have to have collection"!
These new stamps will be available in the Lili of the Valley Shop on Saturday the 22nd. They will be available online on Monday the 24th.
There's 10 new fabulous stamps and 3 new paper pads in this release.
Check out the sneak peeks from the designers.
As always, Lili of the Valley is so generous a random comment will be chosen from one of our blogs and you will win a set of goodies from this release!
Here's my card I chose to use this cutie, "Afternoon Stroll". I also have a video on coloring this image and creating a scene. I created clouds by coloring negative space. I normally create grass all around the image but this time I decided to make grass only behind her as if she was walking along a path.. taking an 'Afternoon Stroll'.
