Hey there Scrappy Nerds, it’s Gisele again with you today to bring you our creative team’s projects. We have been busy so let’s begin shall we. Let’s see what Mari has been up to. She has created this layout starting with some Bazzil Marshmallow card stock (12×12), the “Wallpaper” stencil from Dina Wakley and some Distress […]
Hello Nerds! I have loved watercolorus since i took art classes as a little girl. I especially love how the watercolour dries when splatter on paper, and how it can beautifully can add color to a scrapbook background. On my last month reveal, I used a watercolor background on one of the layouts, and […]
Happy Halloween everyone! I couldn’t resist making a little project for today that I can display every October with the Crazy Dogs stamp set. I’ve told you before that I love this set, right? Well the images in the Crazy Things stamp set make it very easy to create seasonal projects all year long. I […]
Hi crafty peeps, Today I’m sharing an art journal page. This page started with a stamp set and not much of a plan, just the idea to stamp the ‘washi strips’ at the bottom of the page. Because I cover the pages before I started with gesso, the Distress Crayons were easy to blend with […]
Hello! I can’t believe how fast this week has passed, and now it is time to share all my September projects with you all. This month, I drew my inspiration from different places, and played with different paper collections along the way. Black and white photos, lots of white space and simplicity were the […]
Hello everyone! It is been a while since my last post, that even the season has changed. Well today, i am back with a tutorial -no video this week- on how to stretch a cut file. I don’t know about you, but i always try to see how can i use every single piece of […]
I love getting messy in my art journal, paint all over my hand and apron the whole nine yards. This is one of my favourite things to do, just pull out some supplies and give it a go. Today’s mixed media inspiration is an art journal page that I created with some Carabelle Studio stamps […]
This week I am working with the My Mind’s Eye – Happy Camper Collection Papers and Embellishments and continuing with my Gelato obsession . For this layout I decided to try a more subtle background, more of a water-colour look so I could later add word stamps. Supplies needed : Gelatos, stamps, water mister, paper towels, cardstock, […]
Hi there, Joy here with some art journal inspiration for this weeks Mixed Media on Monday. This week I was inspired by Brigit Koopsen, a talented artist who designs stamps for Carabelle Studios and has an awesome blog with so much mixed media inspiration. I pulled out my old brayer and some Dina Wakley paints […]
Creating backgrounds in a art journal does not have to be complicated and take a lot of time to complete. It can be as simple as a few swipes of leftover paint. All of the pages I am sharing today were created with leftovers or supplies I was using on another project and instead of […]
Welcome back! After a break Mixed Media on Monday is now back in action. I created a 8.5″x11″ layout for today’s project, it’s been a while since I scrapbooked so I started with some simple supplies; a photo, a stencil, modeling paste and some distress inks. (You can find a list of supplies at the […]
Hello! It has been a rather busy week, but it has been fun sharing this month’s projects with you. Here is a recap of what i have been working on: BEACHY KEEN – documented my son’s first visit to the Ecuadorian beaches using mixed media, Simple Stories’ Sunshine and Happiness collection ALL […]
Hello everyone!, I hope you all are enjoying the last half of summer; it is amazing how fast this year is moving. Today, I am back with a new installment of the Silhouette Savvy Series. This time we will be looking on how the Silhouette software can be used to create a simple […]
This week I will be sharing the projects I have been working on using the Simple Stories – So Fancy Collection. For this project I decided to create my own background, I wanted something Bold and Colourful to pop my photo of some really great girlfriends of mine! Gathering the supplies needed – Gelatos, Mini […]
Hello, and welcome to this week’s project share!! It has been a lot of fun sharing my projects with you all this week; here is a recap of all the projects: HELLO LIFE This layout used Simple Stories’ Sunshine and Happiness collection to document my daughter’s first zip-lining adventure. CREATE This layout was […]
Hello everyone!, Nathalie here, I hope you all are enjoying the beautiful weather, and using the extra daylight to create beautiful projects. For this tutorial – and continuing with the Silhouette Savvy series -, we will be exploring how to create a compound design by welding shapes together using the Silhouette Studio program. For […]
Hello everyone! Today I have a special post for Mixed Media on Monday. Over the past weekend I attended a few classes with Dina Wakley to learn some new techniques to add to my creative arsenal. (This post is in now way affiliated with Dina Wakley.com) It was a fabulous weekend, Dina really challenged us & […]
Hello Nerds!! It has been a lovely week sharing all the projects created this month. I got to play with beautiful and very colorful papers from Amy Tangerine’s Better Together collection and Jillibean Soup’s Healthy Hello collection, and play with my foiling machine and embroidery thread. Here is a review of my projects: […]
Hello Nerds! I hope you all are enjoying the beautiful weather, and getting lots of crafting done. This month, I was inspired to create using lots of white space, and focusing on the picture. Since I wanted the titles to stand out on my white layouts (since most of them were made on white cardstock), […]
Happy Sunday friends, I love using my mixed media style stamps for cardmaking and my card this week uses the Dina Wakley Scribbly Birds stamp. These little birds are a favourite and a I use them often. I used acrylic paint to ‘colour’ the bird, create my background for this card and with the stencils […]
It’s Joy here today with a mixed media canvas. I tried something new and worked with some bright colours, which are outside of my comfort zone. This canvas is 6×6 and I started with some a few layers of cheese cloth on top of the blank canvas.After gluing the cheese cloth to the canvas with […]
Hello crafty friends, Today on Mixed Media on Monday we’re sharing some product information on Finnabair gels. Anna Dabrowski works with Prima Marketing to produced a collection of products under the name Finnabair, the products they create together are a favourite for all kinds of paper crafters. In this video we found on YouTube, Anna Dabrowski […]
This mixed media on Monday is connected to our online crop Let Your Creativity Bloom. You can still join in on the challenges & everyone will have until Friday May 20th at midnight to post all your challenge projects. You can check out the challenges on our Facebook Friends page or on our forum. I created […]
Welcome to another Mixed Media on Monday. Today we are sharing some product information about the Tim Holtz Distress Crayons. We found a few video’s from Ranger showing us some ideas on how to use the Distress Crayons with more information on the products from Tim himself. Who better to share what’s these new crayons […]
Welcome back to another Mixed Media Monday. Today, we’re bringing you a project that was recently completed by our Nerdy Friend, Jennifer Celeste. Jennifer has been addicted to mixed media for a little while now, and had been having the best time creating projects and playing with a variety of mediums. Recently, Jennifer completed a […]
Hello, hello nerds. I really like the look of watercolours but I don’t own a watercolour set so for today’s project I used distress inks and a watercolour pen. I primed the wooden sign board with gesso before getting out my modeling paste & stencil. There’s nothing wrong with your eye’s, the words are a […]
This weeks mixed media on Monday; adhesive rub-ons from Prima Marketing. These new products from Prima & designer Christine Adolph are pretty awesome. We were drawn to them at CHA this past January and I got excited about the possibilities. We found a great video by Christine for Prima that we are going to share […]
Hello friends, On a recent shopping trip to my local dollar shop, I found a plain canvas bag in the craft isle. The idea popped into my head that I could decorate it with my stencils and fabric paint and use it to wrap a gift for an upcoming retreat. I used a make-up sponge […]
Hello everyone! I’m here today sharing a page from my art journaling using a few simple tools and some of the new Dina Wakely heavy body acrylic paints. I started this page just to see what the new paint colours looked like, a paint swatch page, and as I added some stripes of paint with […]
Hi Everyone! I’m excited to share my project with you today. I’m showing you how I made my own background paper to make a series of mixed media cards. I love creating background in my art journal so working with a large piece of watercolour paper I simply used the same techniques. I used acrylic […]