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 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.

  

   

   

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