This week over at Mixed Media Monday we’ve been challenged to use our “leftovers” – those bits and pieces left lying around after other projects are finished. Here is what I had lying around my desk: A small 4″ x 4″ canvas, that had fallen down from somewhere, bits of text and music paper, a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Backgrounds’
25 Nov
GPP – Crusade No. 25 Gesso
I’m back for this month’s GPP Street Team Crusade! This month is all about Gesso and it’s fabulous properties for creating resistance paint backgrounds. I’ve used Gesso a little before and had discovered some of its properties by accident. This is a great chance to delve a further into the sticky white “paint” with deliberation, [...]
11 Aug
4×4 Friday – Handmade Backgrounds
It’s been ages since my last crafty post, but this week I was inspired by 4×4 Fridays to make something from handmade backgrounds. The handmade background for this card was made with my favourite methods. I painted a piece of white card with blue paint, using a very dry brush, at various angles. Other times [...]
6 Apr
MMM Believe
This weeks Mixed Media Monday challenge is to use the word “Believe”, which I thought would be simple, as I use the word quite often…but being challenged with the word alone, there were many, many options and it was hard to choose one. Scrapbooking paper was adhered with double sided tape (don’t have to wait [...]
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