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.

 

 

Holly Jolly Christmas Tag

Holly Jolly Christmas by AB Studio, a lovely christmas paper pack, part of my latest kit from 

Thompsons craft supplies

this time a christmas tag.

 

for this project i used.....

AB Studio Holly Jolly Christmas papers

Pentart glitter paste

pentart modeling paste

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

firstly i covered my tag with paper from the pack and then i coloured my paste with the red paint and stencilled it onto the back ground.

i  then did some fussy cutting and using the 3d foam pads and gel medium i layered up my design.

i then went over thw whole thing with the clear gesso, when that was all dry i added the glitter paste to the raised stencill on the back ground and the baubles and candy canes.

lastly i watered down some white gesso and some of the red paint separately and splattered all over with both.

 

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.

The Secret Garden

 Loving the Secret Garden Kit from Kits'n'kaboodle and had great fund creating this piece from my kit, plenty left to creat more projects too.

i added lots of cherry blossom to my kit to make my project, stencilling, painting, waxing and this is the result.

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.

  

  

Follow your Heart - Scrapbook Layout

Follow your heart scrapbook layout

these papers are just my subject and colourways, just love them, and when you love something it makes it very easy to create with them, and this set did just that.

My DT kit from Thompsons craft supplies for October 

i need to get these done before i go away on my weeks sewing retreat with friends 

(if restrictions allow, watching the updates constantly!!)

and this range is making it very easy to do that.

for this project i used......

13arts end of summer paper range

13arts end of summer A4 sticket sheet

13arts end of summer stencil - sunflowers

 finnabair sparks acrylic paint - pheonix feather

finnabair art alchomy wax -  firebird

Tim Holtz idea ology words

Hobbilicious mdf leaves

Thompsons craft supplies flower collections

from my stash i also used clear gesso

my how to....

i started by painting my whole background sheet with clear gesso, 

when this was dry i sponged through my stencil with the acrylic paint.

i mounted my photo on some white card stock and placed in just above centre using 3d foam pads and 3d gel

i chose and fussy cut my paper elements and painted with clear gesso,

i then placed them all to see how my arrangement would sit, when i was happy i took a picture to refer back to , took it all apart and started to glue it all in place using 3d foam pads and 3d gel for the paper elements and the 3d gel for the mdf leaves.

starting with the mdf leaves i built it up finishing with the paper flowers.

i then added my title.

i covered my photo and splattered with water down acrylic paint.