Mixed media canvas, published in TPC

This is a mixed media canvas, created for the magazine TPC last autumn. 

I have used stencils, pastes, and lots of bits and bobs from my mixed media draw. The flowers are from different minicacturers, but there are also hand made roses, created with Prima paapers. 

I often start with creating structure on the canvas with stencils and pastes. Then I have used an old frame, pieces from an old computer and left over pieces from the concrete industry. .

The picture has been sprayed black, and then I have worked on the other colours. I have used blue and lilac paints and carefully spray painted in white. The motive s from Queen Mary i Long Beach.

Wishing you a good week.

Mixed media canvas with tutorial

Mixed media is a fun and creative way to use old  bits and bobs you have at home. This is an artile I wrote for the magazine TPC last summer. Here, I have use and old pair og scissors, metal bits and old trash. I have also shown a tutorial in potos and video.

First, I added embossed paper to and old piece of MDF. Then I glued paper die cuts, metal and the pair of scissors. I used Liquitex heavy gel as glue.

After the glue had dried, I put the piece in a cardboard box and spraypainted it black. 

For this project, I used black spraypaint from Biltema.

When the spraypaint had dried, I used a mix of pink and read paint and cobber was from Finnabair. Follow the video tutorial bellow to follow the painting process.

 

Tutorial

Good luck.

Mixed media canvas and class with Color Burst Pigments

Today, I m showing a canvas with Colour Birst pigments. This is a class I had a few weeks ago. Colour Burst pigments, are strong coloured pigments that works well with water spray/mist. I chose to use the colours blue, brown, black and silver in this canvas. 

 The camvas was first decorated with microbeads, polystyrene beads, hand made roses with old Prima collections, Heartfelt flowers, lace and old beaded necklaces. Vanilla

I used lace and cheesecloth and Hobby Line's Deco Hardener. This is a medium that will harden cotton materials. Everything was painted white and Ken Oliver's Color Burst Powders were added. This powder has very strong colours, so add it carefully. Also only add a few colours, as a lot of colours mixed together could make it look messy.

All the flowers are handmade. I have made some of the roses with Heartfelt's classic rose set. Some of the flowers are made from die cuts and old Prima collections.

The word Beautiful has been cut in a black foam sheet from a dies fromTim Holtz, Thinlits Die Set - Adventure Words: Script.

Steampunk googles - Published in TPC

Steampunk has always facinated me for some reason. Gears and victorian inspiration are some of the key words to steampunk. Airships, googles and a very specific way of dressing up. These steampunk googles has been made from some old welding goggles and was published in the magazine TPC a year ago. 

I have used a leather texture paper from Kaisercraft - Cherry Tree Lane - Leather with wooden and metal gears from Finnabair, black and cobber spray paint and wax and paint from Finnabair. 

The google itself, are old welding goggles. They were dismanteled before they were altered. Paint will generally not fix to plastic. Therefore I sanded the down a bit and added serviets as decopage first. After that I painted the googles.

 The glass has been covered with washi tape, before I spry painted the googles. 

I used the paper from the Cherry Tree Lane from Kaisercraft to get the leather pattern at the back of the googles. 

Then I added gears, and dry painted with Finnabair's cobber metalic paint and wax.

Happy crafting. 

Prima flowers - a layout published in The magazine TPC

Last winter, Hobby Lobby had a challenge to create selfies with flowery backgrounds int the shop. I thought of creating similar backgrounds, but never found the right one in a shop. Then I found a small field with daisies outside the university in i East Anglia in England, a fantastic spot for a selfie. The "typical" Prima layout is often created with lots of flowers in layers, with die cuts and with pretty Prima papers in the backround, coloured and created textures on with paint and pastes.

This layout was published in the magazine TPC, last year.

The papers are form Prima's Santorini collection - Together at Santorini Florals. Dies are Prima's  Metal Dies - Forest Leaves and lace dies. Fishnet dies is a Kaisercraft dies. I have aldo used old wooden figures and wheels, Paradise sign, and tiles from my old pile of Primas bits and bobs. Flowers are from Prima. 

The layout has been bouilt up in layers with 3D tape in between to create dimension. 

The diecuts and cut out tickets from Prima paper has been layerd. In between the flowers, I have added car polish yearn. This is a super trick to create more volume in the flowers in the project. 

In the end, I sprayed some white gesso for effect. I used a toothbrush to spray the gesso. This gives you some control over the fine spray. 

In between, I have also added a bit of bling.