Hello everyone! Hope you are all enjoying this new week! It is time for a new tutorial, and this time i wanted to show a way to rework those layouts we some-and/or-many times we end up not loving after they are completely finished. This is the original layout i had created for this tutorial, i […]
Hey there friends, I have really been enjoying Distress Oxide Inks and I decided to work with them in my art journal. I used the inks directly on the pages of my art journal, pulling them down the page from top to bottom. After adding the oxide ink, I held my journal on end and sprayed […]
Hello crafty friends, Last week in our mixed media post I shared how I decorated my new junque journal cover. This week I’m sharing the first page in this journal. As you can see I used a lot of the same colours, they’re some of my favourites from the Dina Wakley heavy bodied paints and I even used […]
Hi ya! I’m starting a new art journal and I actually decorated the cover for once. Most of my journal covers are still blank with some messy paint splatter on them. This Journal is the new Vicki Boutin Junque Journal and I’m excited to start using it. I created a quick time-lapse video to share the process, I […]
Hello nerds, Joy here today with a home decor project that is a great gift idea or a project to keep for yourself. Making your own quote board or sign at home can be easy to do with stencils. You can buy a stencil or cut your own with a digital die cutting machine, for […]
Welcome back to the SN blog, today I’m sharing a 6″ x 6″ canvas project. This project is grungy and really textured, I hope you can see that in the photos. I started this off with some plain tissue paper, crumpled it up into a ball then used matte medium to adhere it to the […]
Hello Scrapbook Nerd friends, I hope you had a nice Easter long weekend, I had a fun day with my family out in Port Elgin. I’m already looking forward to the leftovers and turkey sandwiches. The mixed media share today is a 6×6 canvas board. This canvas project has 3 layers; it starts with […]
Hi ya, Joy here today with a fun home decor project for today’s mixed media inspiration. I’ve had this project in my head for a while and I actually want to make a series of 3 for my niece’s bedroom. I used a piece of canvas fabric in the hoop and glued the fabric to the […]
Welcome back friends, I’m back to share some projects that I created using some of my favourite things. 1. Making my own background papers 2. Paint! 3. Dina Wakley stamps I started with a sheet of 8 1/2 x 11 paper that I created with paint, stamps and stencils. Then cut it down into several […]
Hi there, Joy here with you today and I’m happy to share a gift tag that I created with the new Studio Katia Mandala stamp. This tag is very different for me because the colour combination is very outside my comfort zone. I had a hard time finishing it off and second-guessed myself, the colours changed […]
Hello, It’s Joy here today sharing a new mixed media project with you. We recently started a new card swap over on our Facebook Friends page and the theme for this swap is birthday cards. I decided to make a masculine card with a bit of a watercolour background and some stamps. I created a […]
Welcome back everyone, I’ve been art journaling for a few years now and I still feel like I’m finding my style. Some pages are full of texture and colour, others have more white space and I only use paint. Our art journals can be anything we want them to be and that means anything goes. […]
Hello all, It’s time for some more mixed media inspiration and as promised I am using the papers I made in the MMM post two weeks ago. If you want to check out that post you can click right here. I get so much enjoyment out of creating art journal pages, it’s so relaxing and I […]
Welcome friends, I wanted to share the process of making some background papers with you this week. I’m going to use & share the projects I create with these homemade papers upcoming posts. Making your own backgrounds can work for a lot of your projects including, collage, cardmaking and scrapbook layouts. I started with some […]
Welcome to another first for 2017, today is the first Mixed Media on Monday post of the year. I’ve been a bit void of my usual creative mojo, so getting back into a regular schedule after the holiday’s is good. Do you feel the same after the holiday’s? I went into this page with two […]
