{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!!

{Mini Kit Giveaway}

Hi all!
Happy Friday! So this is gonna be a bit of a long post with ALOT of pics so I'll try to keep the writing at a minimum :p

As I stated in a different post I wanted to have a small giveaway of some mini kits I had put together awhile ago. I made these for some mini kit swaps that I ended up not participating in. The paper lines used are not "new" but are still super cute. If you're new to scrapbooking or mini albums then youre in luck, hopefully you won't own any of these paper lines :) Or maybe you'll be lucky in that you did own them, but now they may no longer be available to purchase. Either way I'm sure if you win you'll find use for them.  So here goes, I'll be posting pics of the kits and the projects I created using them.  Please click on the photo for a closer look.

*I'll update this post later with a list of the kit contents*

The first giveaway is a Vacation/Travel Mini Album and Altered Box Kit.

Here's what you get (plate not included :p)

Here's what I created with it. The inside pages are blank however because I have yet to fill it with pictures :p I'll be sure to share it once again when I do add photos and embellish the inside pages further. 

*Some embellishments may vary slightly in my project than what is included in the kit (mini easel not included :p) *

I didn't take photos of all the inside pages since they were blank, but I did want to take a few pictures of the diecut pocket/envelope/file folder that are included in the kit so you can see how I used it in the mini album.

 

The page to the right is the inside piece of the included

chipboard postage frame.

The next kit is a Mini Halloween kit. You're probably saying "What...Halloween?!"

So yes, you can look at it like this kit is really late, or really early. However if you're

a procrastinator like me than this kit is just in time :p

Here's what you get (plate not included :p)

Here's what I created with the kit. Like the last kit, the inside pages are blank

because I don't usually like to embellish the pages until I add photos. I will

share a few of the inside pages however to show you how I used some of the items in the kit.

*Some embellishments on my project will vary slightly

than what is included in the kit*

  

Now I didn't forget about you wonderful art journalers out there so I created a last minute mixed media kit just for you :)  Here is what you'll get:

Here is a journal page I created using some of the elements included in this kit.

** I did video the process of me creating this page that I am currently editing.

It should be available tomorrow so I do hope you decide to come by and visit again :)

 

So, your probably wondering how you can win one of these kits?  I decided that since there are 3 kits I will give you 3 chances to win one, or if you're lucky, more than one kit.

Here's what you do:

1) Comment on this post and tell me which kit you'd like me to enter you in to win.

2) Subscribe to my blog, then comment again and tell me which kit

you'd like me to enter you in to win, again.

3) Share this post on your blog, facebook, twitter, pretty much anywhere then stop by again and comment with a link to where you shared, then let me know which kit you'd like to be entered in to win again, again :p

*You can choose one, or all three ways to win but please remember to leave a comment each time. Also, each time you enter and specify which kit you'd like, you can definitely enter your name more than once to win a specific kit.

For instance, if you really want the Travel Kit and you participated in all 3 choices, when you comment just tell me each time that you'd like to be entered in that kit.  That way, you have a greater chance of winning the kit you want, or, enter yourself once for all three kits. I hope that makes sense :)

*I'll keep the giveaway open until the end of the month*

So there you have it.  I hope you like the kits and Good Luck!! If you have any questions whatsoever, please feel free to email me!

Thanks so much for stopping by, Have a wonderful weekend!!