My Mixed Media Messy Weekend

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!

Here is the box complete with my ATC cards

Here is the box complete with my ATC cards

Here is the box complete with my ATC cards

Distressed box with ATC cards

Two of the ATC cards I created

More ATC cards

ATC card with magician

Side view of ATC card showing how its put together

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.

The Cover Chalk paint in two layers then image transfer

Painted acrylic with a background paper

Back of the Acrylic Page

Stamped then crackle glaze with black antiquing

Wet paint techniques then stamped with ink to finish

Journaling page

Its all going on here, painted acrylic, with gilding flakes on the back then sprayed with paint in four colours

Just ink on paper for a journaling page

Stamped with white paint on black chalk paint

Journaling page just stamped ink on paper

Image transfer on chalk paint

Love this rabbit page

Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum painted on acrylic.

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.

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