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Square Quilling in Mixed Media Art- "Building Blocks"
Boy, it's been a long time since I finished a project! Two weeks... that's an eternity. My husband and I are both in a local musical- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and it is taking up A LOT of time. (I'll be making some gifts and scrapbook pages…
DecoArt Dimensional Effects in Abstract Art
Happy St. Patrick's Day!! I have a couple awesome mini canvases for you today, one of them bright green in honor of St. Patrick's Day. :) I created them with DecoArt dimensional effects paste. The consistency of this texture paste is…
"Forces of Nature"- using a make-up dauber to create abstract pieces
I've been experimenting with different tools and mediums lately because I'm setting up some workshops and I want to find the best tools to create easily understood and mimicked techniques. This is one of the best canvases from these experiments,…
What I Learned from Teaching My First Mixed Media Workshop
So, I taught my first mixed media workshop last weekend! I was pretty nervous, even though everyone that came was a friend of mine who I knew would be kind to me. :) I had chosen an older canvas I created last year as the focus for the…
Steampunk Tag with tutorial video
Perhaps it was the amazing steampunk Maleficent dragon I saw in Disney World last week, but my mind has been fulls of gears and rust recently. This steampunk tag was such a quick and fun project to work on, and I found some fun new techniques…
Altered Tim Holtz Idea-ology Covers
Hello everyone!! I have some fun binders for you today. I was at Michael's recently, ready to spend my Christmas money, and to my delight I found a bunch of awesome things on clearance. One of those things were these Tim Holtz idea-ology…