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Combining Encaustic with Mixed Media Scrapbooking Techniques

I've been a scrap booker since I was a teenager, and I began working with mixed media elements in my scrapbooks, art journals, and on canvases as an extension of that passion.  This was all long before I became an encaustic artist.  I've been wondering for a long time if there was a way I could replicate my favorite mixed media looks in an encaustic painting.
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Neutral Color Scrapbook Canvas

I've always been more of a neutral color fan.  I feel like it's only been in the past year or two that I've really branched out and worked in lots of different colors.  I love off-whites and brown backgrounds.  I love black text on beige…
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Altered Covers for Journals from the Dollar Bin

I was recently asked to serve with the Young Women in my church.  It's a big job, but I'm so excited to see them progress in their testimonies!  It has become a tradition in our congregation for the leaders to bake a super awesome, individual…

Design Team Sketch 4-1-15

  Another sketch to show!  Yay!! My take on the sketch is only one scrapbook page, but it really put itself together. Between the sketch guiding my hand, and the fact that this paper and most of the embellishments had just come in my…
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Gel Medium- The Most Essential Tool for Mixed Media Artists

 It wasn't until I began to seriously experiment with mixed media art that I discovered Gel Medium.  As I began researching more and more art techniques, I began to stock up on several tools I'd never used before, including this amazing…