Collaged Mother Goose and Wax video

New collages and mixed media I worked on recently using images from an old Mother Goose child's book that was falling apart:

Love the crackle here

Finally tried wax on this one

 I "stamped" thick gesso with a recycled paper tube here

 

Scrunched dress pattern tissue here 

If you want to try beeswax on your pieces, here's a great video from Stampington.  This link takes you to their video.

Many other good videos at their video library as well.

Here's wishing you're enjoying your summer!

Paper Bag Mixed Media

This is my second mixed media book done with lunch brown paper bags.  Lots of fun!

 This one I sent to a swap partner for a swap I joined at the Yahoo group Altered_stArt.

 

After giving each bag a white paint coating, I used paper napkins, stamps, glimmer mist, rub-ons, pearls, gesso, lace, vintage images and photos, stickers, acrylic paints, Silhouette die cuts, book pages, tags, ribbon, paper doily, silk and paper flowers, a coffee filter and a piece of air dry clay that I stamped, painted, sprayed with glimmer mist and sealed with clear varnish.

The completed book

Front Cover

That big pink flower is a paper napkin

Here's a piece of air dry clay, on the 2nd page, which I used acrylic white paint, a blue glimmer mist and clear varnish.  I used the same foam stamp to produce the indent embossing that I used on the background and also embossed one with pink glitter powder.  On the left, I used a paper doily as a stencil and sprayed it with glimmer mist for the effect on the background.

The papers here was a background paper I made a while back painted with acrylics on the background and the purple stenciled images are done with a dimensional paint.

Love how the library card turned out.  More embossing, this time with a white powder.  The fish strip is fabric from a ready to cut and sew craft of some sort that I've had for years.

Magazine cutouts I loved.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Had to include some beachy graphics.  AHHH!!!!

In the middle of these 2 pages is the cone coffee filter which I painted in a pink wash.

 This is the other side of the coffee filter with paper flowers I cut with my Silhouette

 

Crepe streamers stamped and some corrugated cardboard with a crackle effect and prettied up with an antique earring.  The Italian quote says: What beautiful thing have you made?

On the left is an attempt I made to transfer an image with Mod Podge.  Not all of it transferred; still it gave it a cool effect.  I think I was too anxious to see the result and didn't wet the image enough and it was my first attempt. 

Tag tucked in one of the paper bag pockets

A butterfly I printed on vellum and tucked inside one of the pockets.

I also painted and decorated the inside folds of the bags

Back and front covers

If you haven't tried working with brown sandwich paper bags, you should. It's so much fun and you can make it into something useful if you embellish it with family photos or something beautifully artsy to enjoy!

I'll post photos of the paper bag that was sent to me in return soon too.

Have a great week!

Chuckfull of Stuff and Giveaway Winner Announced

Oh, no.  Another weekend gone away.  I hope you enjoyed it to the fullest.  We went to a friend's yard sale  and I came away with a ton of neat vintage jewelry, another makeup compact and a beautiful footed silver tray.  I'll have photos up soon. Today I met with my niece and my sister, her mom, to decide on a design for her engagement party invitations.  I'll be doing almost all or all of her paper needs, including her wedding planner.  So, I'll be busy this year with wedding creations.  Please share your ideas and resources.  I'd love to hear from you.  

Don't you wish you were here; I do.  I can't wait to be at the beach.  Here's an image you can use.  I'll have others throughout this post as well.

And in that spirit, here are some things I gathered from the wonderful world of the web:

• Very inspiring article for artists and crafters from An Artist in Brooklyn:  Stop Editing Yourself
• Free crafting tutorials at Milliande Art Community
• Stash (we can all relate, right) Busting with ideas at Dollar Store Crafts
• In looking at wedding stuff, I came across this interesting project at Craftzine

And, of course, my giveaway has ended and we have a winner so:

And here are some other opportunities to win a giveaway.  Click the title on top of each image:

Yitte Mixed Media Art

 Just ADORABLE!

An Artful Life

Wonderful stash of supplies, yippeee!  Hurry on this one, it ends April 22

The Vintage Moth (Awesome source for images)

Mitzi's Collectibles

 I'd love to have that drawer to create something.  Its so neat with the carvings.

 For those that wanted to have the Somerset Apprentice Magazine Vol 1, you can now purchase a download able version which I did.  I liked the lower price and even though its not on paper, you could save it to a flash drive so you should always have your copy in a safe place.  Go here if interested. 

 

Other images for you.  How adorable is this little girl (and the others) shared by Magic Moonlight

I'd love to get one of those baby bottles for my collection of glass bottles, don't you?

Have a great week, everybody!

Giveaways, giveaways!

Soon, I'll draw a name for my giveaway (tomorrow).  There are a couple of people who entered it, but I don't have a blog and didn't give me their email, so, if you are one of them, please email me or leave another comment right away and let me know how to contact you if you win. 

Want to enter to win even more goodies and totally different things for artists and crafters?  Go here now for this terrific giveaway at another one of my favorite blogs. Tristan of Enchanted Rivalry shares packed-full posts with inspiration, unique things and photos around the world, and of course his beautiful works of art.


Good luck and enjoy the rest of your weekend!