What better way to use your art journal than to release any frustration you are experiencing? In this free art journal tutorial I will show you how I do it!
Hello best gang! It's Anat here and for today's blog post, I'm bringing you a new Video Tutorial showing how to create a whole rainbow of album pages with Li
click all pictures to see them better Our family has been playing a game called SPLIT for at least eight years and we recently ran out of score sheets and the cards were Cheeto-stained, bent and in pretty bad shape (like me some days). So we grudgingly opened a new box (I had bought a couple when the company folded) but no one could bear the thought of throwing away the old cards. This project is born from happy memories meets uncharachteristic sentiment (we're usually pretty cold-hearted about stuff). I prepared the cards with a thick layer of gesso applied with a palette knife. You waste a lot less this way than if you use a brush and spreading is quick and as easy as buttering bread. This is a great time for mark-making so etch into some of the gesso. I mostly made hearts as they're easy. You can make marks with the back of a paintbrush, a skewer, pencil, stick - whatever. Drying time. *sigh* The bane of my existence and I've gotten weird about preferring natural air drying over using my heat gun. Why? It seems more stable to me. And I'm a nut. Anyhow... Since I wanted to maximize what was accomplished during my (eternal) dry time I spritzed them with spray ink. This is a very unintentional step. Don't stress it. Some will look good, some will pool and muddle and look bad. It's all fine. Once it dries gesso and ink combine and the results are rarely recognizable from what you see at this stage. Then, just for shits and giggles I splash around some alcohol ink. Love this stuff. Never used it as intended. I just splash, splash, splash the stuff all over my projects and then grin at it like the Cheshire Cat. It's good stuff. Covers everything. Spreads like a zombie virus. Win all around. Here's one batch of cards. I did one craft mat (official distance measure in my house) worth of cards at a time. Waited an hour or three until they were safe to move off onto the table (Still very sticky, but moveable) and then made another set. It took all day but all 104 are now prepared. I sorted them according to the ones that were awesome and the ones that sucked. I'd dress it up but that would be dishonest. Me: Suck. Suck. Really, Nicole? Suck!!! Awesome. Everyone come see this, it's so cool! Suck. Suck. Good. Like it. Like it. Like it. Um, no. Then in my traditional backwards way of doing things, I started with the ones I hated so if I wrecked them, they were already destined for the trash and it would fall under the 'no harm no foul' rule. They were ugly. As you can see in the pic above (left side), my gold alcohol ink (just found it in a box) made brown splotches. Not even brown really, more like puce. Ick. So I added some ink, spread some large mica flakes and did my best to salvage them. Now I luuurve them. So pretty and fun. No Cheeto stains. Here's the first dozen or so: Thanks so much for visiting! If you'd like a print out of the quotes I used on these cards please click this download link. Special thanks to Carla Devine for creating this document.
The last letter in my 3D mixed media project :) Watch the video tutorial and see how all 3 letters look together. I'm so happy with the results!!
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a mixed media tutorial altering a Project Life journal card using Gelatos, matte gel medium and stencils
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My dearst friends :) Today's post is a quick one! Few updates and a little reminder :) Let's start with saying few words about Maremi's Creative Cafe! What is it? Oh boy, where will I start? It's a place created just for YOU. Following your need of being part of loving place where you can share your daily craft I created this Creative Cafe just for you. I wish this place to become inspirational with cosy feeling where we can explore and connect with others around the world. Let's share love for creating! Let's make friends, drink coffee together, learn about each other… craft together. Feel free to share your daily art, work in progress, arty products you got, things that could bring smile to others and inspire! Show us your messy table, I hope we will have some challenges, vlogs, chit chats and more importantly... I hope we will have some fun! I hope to meet you in the Cafe :) Click HERE ! I would also love to share with you a crazy challenge we did in the group! 10minute art challenge! It's never too late to take part :) Be sure to share your art with me! Use #maremismallart or #maremichallenge :) Enjoy the video! My next share for you is a journal page! I love creating in the evening... when it's pease and quiet... just me and my table :) I use Scrapiniec chipboards and Lindy's Stamp Gang sprays to colour it! My next piece to share is another journa page. I really wanted to recreate one of my oldest pages. Final piece turned out different but I trully loved it! I used new moth stamp from Visible Image! Last project for today is very special to me! I had some awesome time creating with my baby girl. I hope the video will make you smile maybe even laugh :) Enjoy !!! Lastly :) Did you hear about Wanderlust? I am so proud to TEACH in this amazing year !!! Buy Wanderlust 2017 before 31st December 2016 and save 20%! Early Bird Price - £79! (regular price £99) project creators starting from left - Dyan Reaveley, Susan Tonkin Riegel, Wilna Furstenberg i Amanda Grace Click this link to register for your classes now and see all the details! Also :) by using this link you are giving me a chance to earn a small commission as your teacher. Thank you a lot in advance! Come and join me and 25 other teachers Projects creators starting from left - Amanda Grace, Guriana, John Creighton Petersen i Susan Tonkin Riegel. project creator Mary Wangerin Marta xx
52 different mixed media techniques to alter cards! Explore and experimant with different materials and make your own altered playing cards
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