Want to oooh and ahhh over the work of other mixed media/stamping artists in person and help a worthy cause at the same time? Here’s your chance! Please join me in a swap that can help stamp out Alzheimer’s disease. I will be auctioning off the extra pages as a fat book on eBay to […]
Tangled Thread is holding a contest for a lovely little tag. It would be perfect for a scrapbooking page or a piece of mixed media art, so be sure you drop by to participate.
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I did use stamps on this piece, but they got covered up completely by all the layers of acrylic and lace. Everglade Beauty is based on the lovely blue herons I was watching the other day. I started a series called Chesapeake Blue that features herons, but remembered that I had this background and got […]
I finished up the Skinny Book swap pages for Altered Abbey and packaged them up to send off. I had a total of 30 pages and didn’t think you’d want to scroll through that many pictures. That would be one long Make Art Monday post! Then, I remembered that I had seen this handy photo […]
I tried to scan the whole piece, but it comes out too dark every time, so I had to make do with a section photo, instead. This is an example of how different things can end up. I originally was planning to continue the cheery birds I’m working on. They’re so cute that you need […]
I lay down newspaper on my art table before I do any painting to protect the surface. Since I am not the neatest person with a brush, I tend to get a lot of paint on the newspaper. Rather than throw it away, I recycle it into an art background. Newspaper is just a bit […]
This skinny book page uses a fun background technique I’ve been playing around with. In person, the shimmer and depth is amazing. I crinkled up colored tissue paper and glued it down with gel medium. Then I used Luminarte’s watercolor cakes to highlight some of the textured areas from gluing down the wrinkled paper. The […]
Don’t you want to just go collage your heart out after looking at this piece? I know that butterfly wings and pointy hats are on everything anymore, but sometimes it still just seems right. This lovely mixed media collage by Cassi’s Creations simply needed butterfly wings. Great composition, wonderful use of stamps and (if you’re […]
Think making a background is impossible? Scared you’ll mess up? Then this tutorial is for you. See how even mess ups and hideous results can turn into this background. If you make a background with this tutorial, I’d love to see your art!
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I have been working hard on the skinny book project and having a lot of fun. You’ll notice that I am still loving the fleur de lis stamp. I used melted pastels as a background, stamped the image using gesso and painted the flower using liquid acrylics. If you haven’t already joined and are looking […]
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