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square quilling art by Anjuli Johnson

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 projects

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…
Resin and Paper

"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,…
mixed media workshop

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 chipboard frame

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…
idea-ology covers

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…