Imagine-Mixed Media Notebook

 And again..... 

a completely different colour pallet and subject to this notebook, not one i would normally do, again just went through my drawers and picked out things .

love the result.

cogs and old leftover alpha letters are a great base for any project and just loving these mdf light bulbs, always reminds of  every time i said light bulb and i would get yelled at LAMP, i would always yell back ..... you don't go in wilkos and ask for a light lamp do you??  this was the life in a theatrical hire company full of technical people...... anyway i digress!!!

again, stencil and paste, the alphas and cogs go on first, i may add just a couple more later when the next layer go on as foundations to hold the next layer steady, when dry all is then painted with black gesso

 the title and light bulbs go on next adding a couple more cogs under the title to make sure it is attached well and secure, more black gesso, i do this on the different levels as it is easier to get everything covered, if you leave it to the end you will find it hard to get to the bottom layer,  some more texture is then added with gel medium and glass glitter and beads, when dry more black gesso and then when all is nice and dry in with the paint and wax, dry painted so pretty much get all the paint off of a stiff paint brush and gently brush over gradually building up the paint, three colours i used , going over with one colour then the next and the next then picking through the colours again until i am happy, you cansee that the black base is still very visible.

lastly i used a silver wax and my finger just picking up the details of the textures.

very happy with my finished project.

      

  

        

Blossom Notebook- Mixed Media

 when your enjoying doing something why stop, really enjoyed the way i made the last notebook, by just opening drawers and picking stuff out so i did it again......

this time a floral theme and completely different colour pallet.

using resin and moulds, stencil and heavy paste, some lace, pearl half beads , seed beads in gel medium to make more texture ,

 then white gesso all over and left to drywell,

 dry brushing with several different colours of metallic paint building the paint up until i am happy with the colours and finishing with gold wax applied with my finger to pick up the texture detail.

 

 

Mixed Media - Dream Notebook

Now Christmas is out of the way and things can slow down a little bit plus back into 

being at home again (tier 4)

maybe i can get back to a little bit of relaxing crafting, i went into my craft room and tidied up a little bit, you know how it gets when your not crafting much and it becomes a dumping ground, well tidied up and started to just look at things, i had found a notebook at work (the Works) and it needed a spruce up so perfect for a getting back to it project.

i just started going through things, found some odd left over letters and numbers so they went on, then i started opening my mdf drawers and found the cogs so they went on,  a hexagon stencil and some paste. then i came across some resin leaves and swirls so they went on, i found some metal stars and pearls half beads, a few more cogs .

when the paste was nice and dry i then used black gesso all over and left to dry again.....

back into the mdf drawers and i found the heart and wings and the Dream title.

lastly i found the resin wings and face so they went on too, all gessod black and left over night to dry and then today i played with paint and  wax

Red, Purple and Orange paints dry brushed on going on with each colour then going back again to the colours and building it up until i am happy with the colour mix but still seeing the black base coming through, and then gold wax applied with my finger, picking up the texture.