Tutorial

Hello everyone!  I promised I'd share with you the mixed media technique I have used on a few cards and some of my recent layouts.  Here's a little tutorial for you, and I hope you share with me the results you achieved using this process. Just drop me a line and let me know where I can come and see your take on the tutorial. 

Here we go...

Canvas Tutorial: Quick and simple canvas background

Hello Friends, I'm posting a quick and simple canvas background tutorial for you.  Give it a go and let me know what you've created so that I might drop by and visit you.

Grab a 5x7 canvas and let's get started.

I'll be posting a shabby chic 5 x 7 canvas on April 27th with some yummy Blue Fern Studios chipboard.  Drop by and see if it's something you would like to try too.

Thanks for stopping by.

Kosher Salt Technique

Look as this yummy texture achieved by using Kosher Salt.  The size of the salt crystals are just perfect for layouts and/or your mixed media art.

The supplies shown in the picture are all you need to achieve this salt texture.  I'm only showing one color of Glimmer Mist in the photo, but I actually used a Lindy's Stamp Gang Moonshadow Mist (Smoky Sapphire) color as well.

 

Kosher Salt is often used in watercolor paintings.  When you saturate a section of watercolor paper with watercolor paint, and you pour some Kosher Salt on top of the paint and let it dry thoroughly, the salt absorbs all the color and you can then flick off the salt and it leaves a really cool effect. I would often use this technique on some of my watercolor art and thought why couldn't this work on a layout as well, so I set out to see if I could make it work.

In this case, I saturated some sections of corrugated paper with various colors of Glimmer Mist and Lindy's Stamp Gang Moonshadow Mist and poured some salt on the pools of color and let it dry with the help of a heat gun, but not too close as you don’t want the salt to fly off the paper. I would suggest you let the pooled colors with salt dry naturally. Once it was dried, I really liked the texture it revealed and decided to keep it as it was by applying a light mist of Elmer’s Graft Bond Spray Adhesive.  If you don’t apply the bond spray adhesive, the salt will eventually fall off the paper.

 

Unfortunately, that strip is a piece I had to cut off to make this creation fit on my layout that I was working on, but you can see all the cool texture effect the salt produced.

 

I sincerely hope you give it a try and let me know what you do with it.

 

 

 

 





Chipboard Tutorial (Designed for C'est Magnifique)

 

 

This diamond shape ScrapFx Chipboard was included in the C'est Magnifique November Add-On.  Come on over to the Inspiration Forum at C'est Magnifique and find out how I dressed this chippie up. 

Gel Medium Resist Technique Tutorial

Check out how I created this background paper using the gel medium resist technique in the Inspiration Forum at C'est Magnifique.        

Paper Clay Star Fish Inspiration

 

Want to know how I made this paper clay starfish?  Head on over to C'est Magnifique's Inspiration Forum (Paper Clay Starfish) to find out how easy it was to create this pretty little creature and create your own for you beach/ocean themed projects.

Don't forget to calendar C'est Magnifique's Blog Hop that starts Friday, October 26th.