{Mixed Media Journal Page + video}

Yay, finally! I've been having the most frustrating internet issues this past week, actually truth be told it's been more like 2 months.  For some reason our modem keeps losing connection every few minutes or so thus freezing everything in the process. Ive tried to upload this video at least 3 times before I finally gave up out of frustration. I'm happy to say that I've been online for the past 45 minutes straight, yay me!! Okay, well let me get to the point before I jinx anything :)

Here's the journal page and video I mentioned in my last post. I basically recreated the mixed media tags from that post, into a journal page.  If I have to be honest though, I wanted to journal but just didn't feel like cleaning up in order to do so. That led me to the decision to just use what was already on my table :) So there you have it, a way to kill two birds with one stone or so goes the saying.  

I took pictures prior to my journaling on the page because while I definately love to share what I make with you, the journaling this time around were meant for my eyes only. Hope you understand :)
I'm so loving all the texture on the page, definately going to be using molding paste and glass bead gel more often. I wish you could see/feel the texture, somehow pictures just doesn't capture it.

Here are some photos of the page:

 

Here's the video:

 

 

 

Supplies Used:

Scrap Paper

Scrap Paper Towels

Gesso (Liquitex)

Vintage Spanish Dictionary Paper

Matte Medium (Golden)

Soft Gel (Golden)

Homemade Spray Inks

Stencil Waste/Punchinella

Stamps (Studio G, Stampin Up)

Black Archival Ink (Ranger)

Teal Ink Pad (Studio G)

Sharpie Pen

Liquitex Soft Body Acrylic Paint

Golden Fluid Acrylic Paint

White Fabric Paint (Tulip)

Molding Paste (Golden)

Glass Bead Gel (Golden)

Gel Sticks (Faber Castell)

Glitter (Martha Stewart)

Date Stamp

Pitt Pens (Faber Castell)



As always, thanks so much for stopping by!

 

{Mixed Media Tags + Video} and {Mini Giveaway}

Hello!!
So, I recently joined a tag swap hosted by Bona on her blog keeponscrappin.
It's been ages since I participated in a swap and jumped at the chance at participating in this one as I've never done a mixed media tag swap before. I was lucky too, I took the last open slot :)

I didn't have anything planned for the tags except that I wanted to add some molding/modeling paste since that was an optional challenge. So I gathered up some of my favorite paint and ink spray colors and just started playing.

Here are the tags I created:

Lol, my mother said that it looked like I tied rags to my tags :p

I guess essentially that's what they could have been if I hadn't intentionally

inked them up for this project.


The completed tags, packed and ready to go :)

Supplies used:

Tag (TimHoltz Die)

Gesso (Golden)

Vintage Spanish Dictionary Paper

Matte Medium (Golden)

Spray Inks

Stencil Waste/Punchinella

Stamps

StazOn Ink Pad

Studio G Ink Pad

Sharpie Pen

Liquitex Acrylic Paint

Golden Fluid Acrylic

Fabric Spray Paint (Tulip)

Molding Paste (Golden)

Glass Bead Gel (Golden)

Crystal Fine Glitter (Martha Stewart)

Muslin Fabric

Versamark Ink Pad

Clear Embossing Powder

Here's the video:

Giveaway

I mentioned in yesterday's post that I was going to have another small giveaway.

I had such a blast creating these tags that I decided that I wanted to spread the fun to someone else. So, I created a mini kit with some of the supplies I used to create these tags.  The winner also gets one of the tags I created because I was having too much fun that I lost count when I was making them and ended up with one too many :)

Here's what's in the kit:

(1) Mixed Media Tag by me :)

(5) Vintage Spanish Dictionary pages

(5) Tags *diecut from watercolor paper*

(1) Mini square sequin waste

(1) Circle sequin waste

(1) Tiny container of Molding Paste

(1) Tiny container of Glass Bead Gel

(1) Sharpie Pen

(1) Palette knife

(1) Mini Bag of irridescent flakes

(1) Mini Bag paper flowers

(1) Tiny bottle of crystal fine glitter

(3) Paper Doilies, 1 ea. of 3 sizes
(1) Piece of muslin fabric

There you have it! All you'll need are your favorite coloring medias (paint, ink sprays etc.), adhesives/gel mediums, and time to just PLAY!

*Just leave a comment on this post or in the comments section of the mixed media tags video on Youtube for your chance to win. 

*You can leave a comment on both to double your chances :)

*I'll leave the giveaway open for a month

I have another video I'm currently editing of a journal page using the same techniques and materials that I used to make these tags. Stay tuned...

Go and create something, take care!!



{Hello Blog, I'm back} and {Giveaway winners}

Hi there! Sorry it's been a super long time since I've blogged. It's been a crazy summer with unexpected out of town guests for pretty much the entire month of July, computer issues and other stuff I won't bore you with. Anyway, summer is officially over (at least the season is but it's still unbearably hot where I live) and now I'm hoping to get back into the groove of things.

I haven't done as much artsy and crafty things this summer as I had originally planned to but will share what I did do in later posts. 

Enough of my rambling :p  I do hope all you lovely readers had a wonderful summer!!

So, back in July I was suppose to pick a winner of my mini kit giveaway and I'm so sorry it's only now that I'm getting to that.  Unfortunately I received a couple of emails from some of you that you were unable to leave a comment on that giveaway post.  I apologize for that, I'm still oblivious to the ins and outs of blogger and don't know if it was a glitch in the system or something I did. Sorry again about that. I did however enter your names in the draw, so no worries there :)

So here goes, the names were drawn randomly out of basket:

Out of the 7 names in the drawing for the mini travel kit, the winner is: Sheila
Out of the 5 names in the drawing for the mixed media kit, the winner is: Austen
* Please email me with your address so I can get those out to you ASAP*

There were no names in the drawing for the Halloween mini kit :(
Maybe I'll save that for a drawing in October?

Thanks so much to those of you who participated! I'm off to edit a video of some mixed media tags and a journal page I created recently.  I hope to have it posted later today, or tomorrow along with another chance at a small giveaway :)


As always, thanks for stopping by. Have a wonderful day!!