This month’s challenge over at Mixed Media Monday is all about boxes! I love boxes and have a great collection; some have bits and pieces stored away and some are waiting to be altered or on call for the next school project. One can never have too many boxes. The box I made for this [...]
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24 Oct
MMM ~ Shrines
Mixed Media Monday has shifted to monthly and the theme for this month is Shrines. Having a full month has allowed me to create a more complex piece that I would usually do for the weekly challenge format. I created this from pieces of card and added layers of old text sheets to strengthen the [...]
28 Sep
Mixed Media Monday – Art
When is craft art? Can I really call what I do “art” or is it just fancy craft stuff? As I was putting this art journal layout together, I realised that many of the arts / crafts I had listed were doing words. Does this mean that the process of crafting results in art? The verb creating the noun?
23 Aug
Mixed Media Monday – Seeing Red
Mixed Media Monday’s theme is Seeing Red. I used this mixed media art technique, the Serendipity Technique, to create these simple cards.
20 Mar
Mixed Media Monday – Party Animals
The Party Animals have been let loose over at Mixed Media Monday this week. My barnyard animals are having a party… This is another page in my art journal. Background painted with two shades of blue. Grass uses green card and highlighted with dark green on a dry brush. Edge cut with sharp scissors. Animal [...]
7 Mar
Mixed Media Monday – It’s not all black & white
Mixed Media Monday have issued the challenge that’s “Not all Black and White”. So I delved into the Black and White box to create this series of 6 ATCs.
1 Feb
Mixed Media Monday – What was she thinking?
What was she thinking? That’s what we had to determine this week over at Mixed Media Monday. I had a great time creating this art journal page. I created the background using my favourite mixed media art technique; I painted the background with gesso and acrylics, and added Collections stamps in Staz-On. The girl was [...]
19 Jan
Mixed Media Monday – Wings
We are spreading our wings for Mixed Media Monday this week. This series of cards came to me as an inspirational flash, which does happen on occasions but I’m not always able to make it look exactly as it did in my brain. This was one of the rare instances it did! I had these [...]
13 Jan
Mixed Media Monday – Something New
Hmmmm… Something new… something new… Could I possible have something around here I haven’t used before? Well, there are those nice background papers and border punches that my sister gave me for Christmas. And maybe those Darkroom Door Stamps that I bought at the Beachhouse Boulevard stamp camp…. Was it really back in July and [...]
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