My Mixed Media Mayhem Messy Weekend
Hi All
So what have I been doing recently - well for the first time I went on a two-day Mixed Media Crafting weekend held at the Crooklands Hotel held by
Rowan Tree Crafts in Carnforth, Lancashire. The tutor was
Mark Gould from
DecoArt. A big thank you to all who organised this fab weekend, I had a great time I can't wait to go again next year, i'll start saving now!
It was all about surfaces - On the first day we decorated a box and made small ATC cards. On the second day it was Alice in Wonderland and creating a book using stamps, painting and gilding flakes - Hardly any ink in sight just a bit of Stazon and Archival - a bit of a trauma for me there then! There were 13 lovely ladies on the weekend and two days of intense crafting with demos continuing into the evening. It was a great weekend and I learned a lot! I also found lots of 'must have' paints and stuff I needed to be able to do it all over again at home.
Here are some images of the ATC Cards and box I made on the first day, using a range of surface techniques, chalk paints, stencils, vaseline, gilding flakes, texture paint, crackle glaze with antiquing fluid, using acrylic paints on acrylic and stamping and a whole new concept 'working from behind' - took a while to get my head around that one!
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| Here is the box complete with my ATC cards |
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| Here is the box complete with my ATC cards |
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| Here is the box complete with my ATC cards |
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| Distressed box with ATC cards |
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| Two of the ATC cards I created |
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| More ATC cards |
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| ATC card with magician |
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| Side view of ATC card showing how its put together |
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| ATC card showing magician and bird |
Day Two
Here are some images of The Alice in Wonderland Craft Book, I made on the second day. Mark gave us wonderful items to work with to consolidate the techniques we used on the first day.
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| The Cover Chalk paint in two layers then image transfer |
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| Painted acrylic with a background paper |
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| Back of the Acrylic Page |
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| Stamped then crackle glaze with black antiquing |
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| Wet paint techniques then stamped with ink to finish |
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| Journaling page |
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| Its all going on here, painted acrylic, with gilding flakes on the back then sprayed with paint in four colours |
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| Just ink on paper for a journaling page |
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| Stamped with white paint on black chalk paint |
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| Journaling page just stamped ink on paper |
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| Image transfer on chalk paint |
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| Love this rabbit page |
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| Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum painted on acrylic. |
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| This is a lovely MDF frame |
For the past month I have been busy creating a range of sample cards for a well known stamp company - but you’ll have to wait a while to see those.
That’s all for now folks - take care and see you soon.
Here is a link to my pinterest page - and a link to my scrapbook pinterest page - please drop by and take a look.
