tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22951465482385086072024-02-21T02:37:37.493-05:00 I Just Need More Glue, Paint, Pens and some Fun Paper . . . Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12966884987487366147noreply@blogger.comBlogger245125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2295146548238508607.post-30572866148494697822018-03-17T18:32:00.001-04:002018-03-17T18:32:32.407-04:00Finding time for blogging ...<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ugh, I feel like I haven't had a moment to spend on this blog in months. Working full time, carpooling three kids ... finding time to relax with art ... the blog has just fallen off the list. I have had a couple of projects on the Canvas Corp Brands Blog ... so I will add some links here! And this is one project that I just made a mess, covered it and fell in love with the mistake canvas .... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It started with a 7 Gypsies Mixed Media Paper Artboard 8x10 .... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Then I covered the board with Deco Art Crackle Paste and mixed in a little Paper Artsy Fresco Finish Paint in my new fave ... Dusty Teal. It dried overnight and in the morning - it looked amazing!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Then I looked through my sketch book and found a favorite quote. I used google docs to find the right font and printed it out onto tissue paper. I coated the cracked paint with matte gel and put the tissue paper down onto the board. I added some linen ribbon, twine, a vintage button! Love this one!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here are some Canvas Corp links for you to follow if you want to see some of my projects from the last two months! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Another Art Board Project: <a href="http://blog.canvascorpbrands.com/wherever-go-altered-artboard/">http://blog.canvascorpbrands.com/wherever-go-altered-artboard/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Rustic Flower:<a href="http://blog.canvascorpbrands.com/rustic-clematis-mixed-media/"> http://blog.canvascorpbrands.com/rustic-clematis-mixed-media/</a></span></div>
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<br />Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12966884987487366147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2295146548238508607.post-81559654848234384052017-12-01T00:00:00.000-05:002017-12-01T00:00:25.561-05:00The Mixed Media Monthly Challenge #43!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">December is here and so is The Mixed Media Monthly Challenge!! I had a blast creating with the chipboard pieces that boozybear.blogspot has in her store !!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Visit <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/boozybear/items">boozybear's etsy shop</a> and find her amazing stencils and chipboard pieces! I loved playing with them because they were versatile and put up with a LOT of different mediums!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I coated the canvas with white gesso and a crackle paste randomly around the canvas. Then I used a gold paint randomly around on the white background. When it was dry, added in some gold texture paste with sand and glitter randomly. I used my boozybear burlap stencil with brown archival ink for a little extra texture in the background. Then I took the awesome Scribble Frame Chipboard and coated it in gold paint and Distress Oxide Ink - so much fun! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I loved this creating this project!! I hung it up in my front hallway with all my Christmas decorations!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://mixedmediamc.blogspot.com/2017/11/mixed-media-monthly-challenge-43-believe.html">So come and play </a>- you are definitely going to need some art time during this crazy Holiday Season!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Has it really been a month since our last challenge? Yikes, October has flown by ... it was so busy I don't even think I had time to stop and think!! Luckily, I did have enough time to enjoy the amazing challenge and stamps and stencils from <a href="https://visibleimage.co.uk/">Visible Images!!</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The theme this month at <a href="https://mixedmediamc.blogspot.com/2017/11/mixed-media-monthly-challenge-42.html">The Mixed Media Monthly Challenge Blog</a> is Silhouette .... and I had these amazing lightbulb stamps ... and as usual ... one lucky, random winner will win a Gift Certificate to our sponsor ... <a href="https://visibleimage.co.uk/">Visible Images!</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: center;">The wooden block in about 8x8. The bottom layer is an old scrapbook page that I had laying around! I painted on a layer of clear gesso and then I used Tattered Angels Glimmer Mists and Glimmer Glazes for the background color. I smeared Distress Oxide in Walnut Stain randomly around the piece and spritzed it with water. To add more layering to the background, the Cosmic Skies Stencil from </span><a href="https://visibleimage.co.uk/product/cosmic-skies/" style="text-align: center;">Visible Images</a><span style="text-align: center;"> are in the background with archival ink on top of the color. And finally, I splattered PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Tangerine Twist on top. So much fun to create!!</span></span><br />
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Hi Everyone! Happy OCTOBER!! Let the craziness of the holidays officially begin!! Let's start with cooler weather and college football on the weekends!! Whoohoo!! And then let's get Crafty in our warm pj's and big slippers!! Best month!! And so while you are in your pj's you can join us in our awesomly fun Color Challenge this month!! These were definitely a challenge for me but I loved it!</div>
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Our awsome sponsor for this month's challenge is Rubber Dance Stamps. We were SO lucky to get to play with their products this month. My stamp, the adorable whimsical mushrooms ... love it! So definitely visit <a href="http://www.rubberdance.com/">Rubber Dance</a> and see what they have!! And one lucky, random winner will be drawn from all our participants to win a gift certificate from <a href="http://www.rubberdance.com/">Rubber Dance</a>!! Pretty Awesome!!</div>
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And my project this month ... The background is a scrap of wood with white chalk paint and crackle. It is actually about 20 inches tall! The tree is brown paper, inked up and stamped. The stamps are Rubber Dance, <a href="http://www.rubberdance.com/funny-fungi">Funny Fungi, </a>colored with Pitt Pens. The 'grass' and the 'leaves' are random scraps of scrapbook paper!</div>
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<br />Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12966884987487366147noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2295146548238508607.post-56946808380770374142017-09-01T00:00:00.000-04:002017-09-01T00:00:24.480-04:00The Mixed Media Challenge #40 - Vintage!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And here we are ... September! Wow, 2017 just hasn't stopped to take a break, it just keeps going by faster and faster! I think I have been busier and happier this summer than our usual summer breaks so I will be sad to say Good-bye to summer. But on the other hand, FALL, is really my favorite season of all!! Football, cool evenings and this Awesome Vintage Challenge will be a perfect fall fit for me! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So this canvas began while I was listening to a woman - her name is Cecilia Stoll - on an Arbonne phone call ... she was simply divine and inspiring. And one of the things she said was ... "Be in Love with the Journey." It struck me as something I needed to do ... we can go with the journey, we can get caught up in the journey and we can find joy in the journey too. But to be in LOVE with the journey, to embrace the good and the bad, and to stick with it and take care of it like you would if you loved someone ... that was a way I had never thought of a journey. SO, I doodled it on my desk ... and pulled out some of my favorite new things and some that I had never even used before and got to work!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And then I was almost done ... some extra doodles, added hearts of paper and burlap and splatters to finish it off! And now it is hanging in the middle of my wall above my desk!! So go ... and find what it takes to be In Love with The Journey wherever it is that you are going!</span></div>
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<br />Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12966884987487366147noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2295146548238508607.post-71880872678289066452017-08-01T00:00:00.000-04:002017-08-01T00:00:30.764-04:00The Mixed Media Challenge #39!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Time for another Challenge!!! Are you ready!!?? This time, our challenge is to create something inspired by the photo in our Challenge #39 badge! And I just LOVE challenges like this because you get to see what everyone else is inspired by in the photo!! I thought it was going to the weathered wood siding for me, but then the window boxes and the flowers really called to me!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So Come on ... join us at </span><a href="https://mixedmediamc.blogspot.com/2017/08/mixed-media-monthly-challenge-39.html" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Mixed Media Monthly Challenge!!</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And of course, we have an amazing sponsor ... <a href="http://www.indigoblu.com/">Indigo Blu</a>! I mean really - one of my favorite stamp companies - SO awesome!! And one random winner will be chosen from our Challengers to win a fantastic prize!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So here is my take on this Inspiration Photo this month ....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I had so much fun with the layers of this project. The project is created on a new Architextures Artboard (they are thick pressed wood covered with textured white paper.) So on top of that I started with a dictionary and copied a page of it onto tissue paper to give my background a 'thin' start! After the tissue paper was dry, I added scraps of paper to break up the black and white wording. I also used Indigo Blu stamps to create texture and layers in the background</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So the butterflies needed somewhere to go and I wanted to create some green-ery for them to be flying around! I took a piece of fabric and sprayed it with Glimmer Mist and frayed the edges. It really looked like grass!! There were also a couple of paper scraps with green, using matte medium I glued them all down to the bottom of the canvas. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So when I put the butterflies down on the busy background, they just looked kind of lost to me. I really wanted a more solid color, but wanted to keep the effect of the layers behind. By mixing acrylic glazing and Plain Jane Matte Mist Watercolor - the two kind of let you see through the color and the paper underneath! It did take forever to dry though!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When the butterflies went back down on the board, there was much more pop from the butterflies. The blue color really kept them from fighting with the patterns in the background. So from here, I stamped a couple of butterflies right onto the board. I added a couple of doodle details and picked my quote.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So there were two quotes I was wrestling with ... one is "May you always be brave enough to fly" and the then the "Follow you Butterflies." And right now, I am trying to get a Health and Wellness business of the ground and it is making me so nervous, I felt like Follow Your Butterflies spoke directly at me! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And then I was done! This was a really fun piece to make - but the sentiment meant so much to me. I am going to hang this on my wall and remember to follow my butterflies. So if you have something that is giving you butterflies just thinking about .... this one is for you too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Another month - another awesome challenge!! It is so much fun to play with embellishments - I just loved this month's challenge! Our design team had the opportunity to use Um Wow Chipboard Pieces - they are fantastic! I loved the shapes and the their ability to put up with whatever I threw on them! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> I sprayed, painted and put some more paint on the Um Wow Chipboard! The pieces really could be used in a hundred different ways, but here one is a tree and the other is a plant in the foreground. I just love getting these chipboard pieces ready so much so, that I didn't take one picture of the chipboard process!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I glued the deli paper down to the wooden block with matte medium and wrapped it around the block. The tree branches went around the edge! Loved that! I used some craft glue to stick the chipboard in place. Then using the computer and printer I created a saying on tissue paper and glued it down to the paper with matte medium. The words were actually very hard to see with the background showing through the paper so I had to use a pen to go over the font. It actually turned out okay and looks more handwritten than printed!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unbelievably, we have another year of challenges complete here at The Mixed <a href="https://mixedmediamc.blogspot.com/">Media Monthly Challenge!!</a> I love looking back and seeing all the different projects that have been completed for our challenges!! So this month, our Challenge is to create something using one or more of our themes for the year! Our AMAZING sponsor this month is <a href="https://www.donnadowney.com/">Donna Downey Studios!</a>! One lucky winner, chosen at random from our entries will win a $50 gift card to the <a href="https://www.donnadowney.com/">Donna Downey Studio Store!!</a> SO AWESOME! Come and Play with us!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For my project I chose rustic!! I seem to be on this rustic and farmhouse kick lately ... so here is my project!</span></div>
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And then I made the little bird, added the quote and Rustic Fun was done!! Make sure to come and play with us!! </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh I just had so much fun making this wings project!! Hop on over to the Canvas Corp Blog for all the details of how I made this Home Decor Project for my Living Room!</span></div>
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Monica is turning 50 this month and she is hosting a blog link-up party!! She has some amazing prizes and this is going to be lots of fun!!</div>
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Here is my project that I was inspired by Monica's awesome mood board!</div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif;"><i>A few of my crafty friends have joined me early to help get the party started and give you some ideas for your link ups. Be sure to visit their blog and give them some love as well!</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif;"><i>I would also love it if you help me spread the word. Create a blog post using the graphic and a link back here. Don't forget to link your project for a chance to be entered into the drawing for my prize giveaways.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hello Challengers!! Welcome back for this month's Mixed Media Monthly Challenge!! And SO much fun ... Put a Stamp on It!! This month we are sponsored by the brand new awesome stamp store, <a href="http://www.topflightstamps.com/">TopFlight Stamps</a>, that brings hard to find stamps and stamps from around the world right to you!! So come and play with us!! And one lucky random player will win an awesome prize from TopFlight Stamps!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And here is my project!! I had the awesome chance to use <a href="http://www.topflightstamps.com/store/p32/cockerelhen">Clarity Stamps Cockeral and Hen set! </a>These stamps were super easy to use and made awesome crisp images. The set also comes with masks that I played with! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Okay, when two of your favorite companies are doing a MatchUp ... you jump up and down and then get your hands on the goodies!! Stencil Girl and Canvas Corp Brands ... perfect together. This month the challenge was to "Put a Stencil on it: Surfaces!! I had a blast and almost wore out the stencils playing and creating a ton of different backgrounds and project ideas for this matchup. In the end, I chose my favorite one to share with you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These are the supplies that I used: Stencil Girl Stencils: Travel Note, Random Lace, Small World Longitude, Sunburst, Decorative 6 Petal, Canvas Corp 6x6 Canvas, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist Starter Kit, Tattered Angels Chalkboard Mist Paint in Chalk, Matte Medium, Canvas Corp Burlap, Canvas Corp Canvas Fringe - Ticking Orange, Canvas Corp Ticking Fabric Navy, Canvas Corp, Canvas Corp Paper, Various blue paints and liquitex heavy body white paint. Tissue Paper</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In case, you want to try a project like this at home, here are the step by steps!! This is a fairly easy project and fun!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gesso the Canvas Corp 6x6 Canvas and then paint different colors of blue paint with a credit card. After the blue paint dries, use heavy white body paint, a cosmetic sponge and the stencils to create the texture in the 'sky.' After the white paint is dry, use Tattered Angels Chalk Board Paint in Chalk to mist over the background to tone down the blue!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Using various papers and It's Green Glimmer Mist create the ground for under the balloon. Use the piece of canvas from your Glimmer Mist starter kit and the travel note stencil to create a piece of textured ground! Cut the pieces to make rolling hills! Use Matte Medium to glue them all down!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lagene, Shoot me an email at karenlcrossen @ gmail dot com! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Welcome back Challengers!! Oh boy, this is a FUN Challenge!! What is your Superpower? Yeah!! I love my Super Girl, Superman, WonderWoman ....but if I could have a superpower I would FLY like Butterfly! I would spend my spring days flying from flower to flower enjoying myself without a care in the world! What would yours be??</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today we have an AWESOME blog hop for the opening of a
great new online store called Topflight Stamps. Topflight
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around the world. You will be sure to find something different
and fun there. They also offer free shipping on all orders over
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off ALL orders - use code TFS-GO20 – offer good March 27
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designers in this blog hop are giving away a $10 gift
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announce my winner here on Monday, April 3. The $50 Grand
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then I added the stamps for texture with archival ink in coffee and black.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then I had an idea ... and it went totally wrong ....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So I turned the block over and started on the other side in frustration! I used the new Architextures Paper Pad from 7Gypsies ... it has an awesome print that reminded me of old wallpaper. A little whitewash over it and it felt even more vintage! Then after the whitewash dried, I stamped away, added some text and 7Gypsies Architexture Chicken Wire and felt so much better about this side of the block!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> After I had the one side done, I felt brave enough to start over. I remade the angel, and added some crackle and sanded down the paint. I went around the edge of the cream paint with Glimmer Glaze in Satchel. Then when I used my ClarityStamps with the archival ink in coffee, they really popped a little more!</span></div>
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Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12966884987487366147noreply@blogger.com57tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2295146548238508607.post-80605621687295337612017-03-22T15:40:00.004-04:002017-03-22T15:41:05.964-04:00Block Crazy #3 - Tattered Angels!!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here is my 3rd block from my block craziness!! This one used Tattered Angels Baseboard Spray and Glimmer Glaze to achieve a gray weathered look from a plain piece of wood from the hardware store! <a href="http://blog.canvascorpbrands.com/turn-fresh-piece-wood-weathered-wood-ta-paints/">Check out all the steps at the Canvas Corp Brands Blog!</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And it all happened because of an oops .. what do you do when you spill a container of much loved Glimmmer Glaze? Cover the whole project with it!!</span></div>
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Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12966884987487366147noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2295146548238508607.post-925934354465645932017-03-07T17:24:00.001-05:002017-03-07T17:28:35.950-05:00Block Crazy #2<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I was having a hard time creating anything the other day. So, in order to clear my head and find some inspiration, I picked a couple of quotes out of my sketchbook and turned them into small decor projects. You saw my <a href="http://ijustneedmoreglue.blogspot.com/2017/03/going-block-crazy.html">first one here!</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I used Paper Arstsy Turquoise Fresco Paint and mixed it with Deco Art Crackle! The edges were coated with <a href="https://shop.canvascorpbrands.com/products/cardboard-baseboard-2oz">Tattered Angels Baseboard Spray in Cardboard</a> to darken the wood that shows around the paint. The words were printed on tissue paper and glued down with matted medium. And I finished off the project with burlap, crocheted ribbon and rusted bottle caps. LOVE this piece!! </span></div>
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<br />Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12966884987487366147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2295146548238508607.post-77165017718700864892017-03-03T17:38:00.001-05:002017-03-03T21:54:50.926-05:00Going Block Crazy!!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">At Christmastime, my mom gave me a HUGE load of wood scraps from the farm!! I have been in heaven! I just love making little home decor blocks with a little bit of mixed media and a favorite saying!! There are not any process pictures, but I wanted to share these with you. I actually have them for sale at a local shop called American Redemption. So, enjoy! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I picked 5 quotes from my sketch book and used them as my inspiration for these blocks!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is a wood block with PaperArtsy Fresco paints as the background. Then I used Heidi Swapp metallic texture paste through a stencil for the texture on the sides! Then I used White FolkArt Acrylic Mixed Media Spray for a final white splatter touch! Love this saying!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Welcome back Mixed Media Challengers!! This is SUCH a FUN challenge this year!! Our challenge this month is BUTTONS!! Our awesome sponsor this month is 28 Lilac Lane! Make sure to click the link and visit!! <a href="http://mixedmediamc.blogspot.com/2017/03/mixed-media-monthly-challenge-34-buttons.html">THEN join us and create your project for our challenge</a> <a href="http://mixedmediamc.blogspot.com/2017/03/mixed-media-monthly-challenge-34-buttons.html">at The Mixed Media Monthly Challenge!</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am so excited to share with you a tutorial that I created for Tattered Angels! I had so much fun playing with their glazes to make this rustic tulip piece for my house! Here are just a couple quick pics of the project, but jump on over to the <a href="http://blog.canvascorpbrands.com/paper-tulips-on-wooden-board/">Canvas Corp blog</a> to see the whole tutorial!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I can't believe it is already February!! Down here in Atlanta, we haven't really had much of a winter so my trees are already blooming and my spring bulbs are poking through the ground. My fingers are crossed for at least one more little wintery spurt - perhaps a day with snow flurries! But in the meantime, I am happy to celebrate February with hearts and some sweet inspiration!! <a href="http://mixedmediamc.blogspot.com/2017/02/mixed-media-monthly-challenge-33-sweet.html"> And I HOPE that you will join us as well in our Mixed Media Monthly Challenge #33!!</a> And if you play, one random player, will be drawn for an awesome gift card from Stampendous!! We had a blast playing with our stampendous products this month - such an amazing selection!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, this project has changed so many times throughout the last few weeks!! I really wanted pink and red hearts ... I walked through the stores to get some Valentines Day inspiration, but I couldn't do it!! Instead, I ended pulling out the gold and bronze colors to make my hearts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am so blessed to have art in my life. Art is such a great way to stretch myself. I really just am lucky to have found Mixed Media art through my amazing kindred spirit, Kelli. All it took, was me to see one piece of art that she had created, to know that I really wanted to try. And so I tried ... and I was hooked. And now when I am working on a project I feel my stress fall away or I pour what I am feeling in. You just never know what you are going to find at the end of the journey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So today, in honor of <a href="http://blog.canvascorpbrands.com/inspire-your-heart-with-art/">"National Inspire Your Heart with Art Day"</a> I created this wood block using a ton of <a href="http://canvascorpbrands.com/">Canvas Corp Brands Products!! </a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I used a Scrap of Wood, Canvas Corp Brand Fluted Paper, Canvas Corp Brand Kraft Paper, Archival Inks, Tissue Paper, Matte Medium, Tattered Angels Glimmer Glaze Satchel, stencils, and Chalk Paint - Cream colored!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For the first side ... I have my paper hearts and stenciling on the wood block.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For the second side, I have one of my favorite bible verses .... I used tissue paper with the words I printed on to it with my printer! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I adored the stencils from Stencil Girl that I was lucky enough to play with this month! Here is the second stencil that steals the show - Fractured Glass 6!! (Find it here: <a href="http://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/product-p/s024.htm"> http://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/product-p/s024.htm</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And then I kept playing without the camera!! Sorry!! There was a second gold layer that was ripped off the back, you can see just the edge of it ... and in the end I had a gold heart on canvas that I frayed the edge (from Heidi Swapp again) and a little Cherish sticker. I love it! Simple but fun!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And if you have made it this far ... Whew! Let me just tell you, that I am a newbie design team member with Canvas Corp ... and I can't wait to start sharing with you some of the new, absolutely amazing new products that Canvas Corp Brand, 7 Gypsies, is going to debut at Creativation (formally known as CHA!) You are going to LOVE them!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Welcome 2017!! Happy New Year to you all and welcome to<a href="http://mixedmediamc.blogspot.com/2017/01/mixed-media-monthly-challenge-32-put.html"> The Mixed Media Monthly Challenge #32!!</a> Our challenge this month ... Put a Stencil on It, sponsored by <a href="http://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/">Stencil Girl Products!</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But now, you need to come and play with us at <a href="http://mixedmediamc.blogspot.com/2017/01/mixed-media-monthly-challenge-32-put.html">The Mixed Media Monthly Challenge!</a>! Grab your stencils and start to play!!! Then come and join us so that you can have the random chance to win a prize!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After it dried I got out the stencil, an old credit card and Heidi Swapp metallic texture paste. I used both silver and gold! I also took some silver and wiped it over the dried crackle to give some color to the cracks! I originally wanted to use this quote, but it ended up not fitting onto the canvas like I wanted! I'll use it another time! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This stencil from Stencil Girl is called Rose Window - <a href="http://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-rose-window-lizzie-mayne-p/s217.htm">you can find here at the Stencil Girl Website!</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I keep a little journal in my purse at all times. If something inspires me, I sketch it or write it down for later. The other day this quote really struck me - I had to keep it! When I am not at my desk playing with paint and fun stuff, I work as an Activity Coordinator at an Assisted Living. I love what I do and I love all my residents, they teach me about life everyday.. So, when I saw this quote, I thought that 'treasures' was a good way to remember those residents. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I started with treasure map that I printed out from google images. I actually just printed it onto plain white printer paper. I used gel medium to glue it down and smooth it out onto my wooden block. Then I used Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist and Cardboard Spray to age the map and block.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And on the front of the block, I used Canvas Corp Brand Kraft E-flute paper. I roughly painted the block and the paper with cream colored chalk paint. Then I printed out my new quote onto tissue paper and using gel medium, gently glued it down to the fluted paper!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some vintage ribbon, a little blue paint, a couple buttons and twine finished this project off! I love it.</span></div>
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