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.

 

 

 

Journal - Holly Jolly Christmas

 Christmas journal double layout using Holly Jolly Christmas by AB studio, a DT project for Thompsons craft supplies.

.for this project i used......

AB studio holly jolly Christmas papers

thompsons craft supplies flower collections

lots of fussy cutting, the tags, wreath and lots of other bits.

from my stash i used some ribbon some red acrylic paint,3d foam pads, 3d gel medium, clear gesso.

i cut my background papers to size and distressed the edges with open scissors (whoops be careful)

 i stencilled some red paint on through the stencil we used for the recent retreat.

i cut out 2 tags from one of the sheets and punched the holes out and added my ribbon.

then it was simply fussy cutting and layering, the different elements.

layering using my 3d foam pads and 3d gel medium to gain the height.

i added some paper flowers and lastly i splattered with watered down red paint.

got to love the splattering.

Believe in Christmas

 The first of my November projects for Thompsons craft supplies and of course it has to be Christmas themed

and a gorgeous collection from AB studio Holly Jolly Christmas

for this i used one of my pallet wood rustic backgrounds.

for this project i used.....

AB studio holly jolly christmas papers

AB studio glam christmas paper

AB studio stencil tree

Pentart modeling paste

pentart metalic wax in green and silver

fabrica decoru magic paint, cinnamon with gold

color glow blue saphire

snowflake stencil

thompsons craft supplies flower collections

christmas words

from my stash i also used white gesso, clear gesso, some red paint  and a wooden word Believe.

Firstly I stencilled my trees and the snow flakes and fussy cut some from the gold foiled sheet when it was all dry i covered it all except the gold foil with clear gesso.

i used my magic paint, ble saphire and then my waxes to coour my back ground.

I then fussy cut lots of the elements from the extra sheet in the paper pack and some of the larger poinsettia from one of the sheets in the pack.

next I backed my reindeer to give him a bit of strength and then layered up my paper elements, painted them all with clear gesso to add strength .

I painted my wooden word believe in red and added my title and layered up round it.

I then added my flowers and lastly splattered with watered down white gesso. 

 

Mixed Media Butterfly

 Mixed Media Butterfly.

Its great to work on different shapes for scrapbooking, i love to mix it up a bit.

another Dt project for Thompsons craft supplies.

for this project i used.....

woodouts butterfly mdf blank

13arts papers end of summer

hobbilicious mdf feathers and leaves

hobbilicious hobbles

finnabair art alchemy wax firebird

finnabair art alchemy sparks acrylic paint phoenix feather

from my stash i used black gesso, 3d medium.

to start with i covered my butterfly with one of the papers and using some sand paper i distressed the edges.

next i gently edged it with some black ink

i mounted my photo onto black card

then i painted my mdf feathers and leaves with black gesso

i fussy cut some of the designs from the paper pack .

then i layered them all on without gluing to decide on my design, i took a photo to remind me of where i wanted everything and then removed it all.

i gradually started to build it all up using 3d gel medium as my glue for my mdf pieces and 3d foam pads with the medium to stick down my paper pieces, the 4d foam pads also adds height to the pieces so you have a lovely 3d finish.

i then mixed together some 3d gel with the hobbles and added round the butterfly edge and across the leaves and feather.

when it was all dry i added some wax to my hobbles edging and the black gesso'd feather and leaves, not completely covering, still allowing the black to dominate.

lastly i splattered with somewatered down black gesso and some watered down sparks paint.

  

  

Mixed Media Notebook

 Oh the projects came so easy with these 13arts papers, just love them.

my second DT project for Thompsons craft supplies

a mixed media notebook, i love books and have many, the problem is i write in them all and then cant find what i am looking for because i have so many lol.

for this project i used....,

13arts end of summer papers

Thompsons craft supplies mixed flower collections

finnabair metallic wax firebird

craft oclock mixed media quotes 2

creative embellishments frame

mdf leaves and feathers

hobbilicious stencil elfland

color glow golden calite

finnabair art alchomy paint phoenix feather

from my stash i used black stazon ink,black gesso, white gesso, 3d gel for my glue and some glass bead texture gel, you can make this with 3d gel and just mixing with glass seed beads, the gel will dry clear.

to start with on this project as it is a bound notebook i started by stippling the spine with white gesso and round the edge of the cover, i dried it with my heat gun and then stippled the paint on, no need to do the middle as it will be covered, i did the back in the same way but had to wait till one side was completely dry before doing the second side .

i then cut papers to fit the front only not the spine and slightly smaller. i glued on using my 3d gel and then painted all over with my clear gesso and dried.

i then sponged the orange paint through my stencil randomly over the front and back .

while that was drying i painted my frame with black gesso and then that was stuck on with the 3d gel.

i added some of the bead gel around the book edges and in parts around the frame and dried them.

i then sprinkled some of the colour glow in places and sprayed with water to activate and move the colour around a little and then dried.

i painted my mdf leaves and feathers with the paint and when dry just distressed the edges with black my black ink pad.

i fussy cut a flower collection and a single sun flower and butterfly and layered up the paper pieces and mdf feathers and leaves.and added my butterfly.

i painted my paper pieces with clear gesso and dried.

i then distressed all around the book edge very gently with the black ink pad and then using my finger waxed picking up the beads and the frame detail in parts.

i added my title which i had distressed with the wax.

lastly i watered down a little black gesso on my glass cutting mat and splattered gently all over.

for the back i got as far as the stencilling and adding the colour glow then inked gently with the back round the edges and then picked up detail with the wax but left it without any other embellishments so that it will sit flat.

  

   

   

l.