Welcome our Guest Designer Angie!

Good morning crafty friends!! We're so excited as today's the day we meet the first of our lovely Guest Designers and today we're welcoming the lovely Angie Jones!! Before we check out Angie's beautiful project, just a little reminder that you still have plenty of time to enter our challenge and be in with a chance of winning these gorgeous goodies from Polkadoodles ...

 
It's sooooooo easy to enter, you can use any products to play along and the theme is

Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes

Just click here  and scroll down to add your entry to the linky!!!

Now let's have a peek at Angie's awesome project:

Anjie has created a canvas and used Ula's Life Don't Listen black & white and the sentiment from Ula's Life Be Strong. 

Isn't it gorgeous, love love love that background Angie!! Check out Angie's blog here for all the details

Let's meet the lovely lady herself ....

Angie Jones - I live in Queensland, Australia. 
I have always loved colouring in since I can remember....my stamping / card making started around 30 years ago.....I bought some copic markers at a craft show about 3 years ago and sort of yes. no for a year. Around 18 months ago, I did a few online classes and bam.....whole collection of markers now and I colour everyday! I have added paints / stencils and stamps to create gorgeous backgrounds. So my Mixed Media is just developing but I am loving the journey.

Thanks so much for sharing your beautiful artwork with us Angie!

If you'd like to see more of Ula's Life, the collection Angie has used you can find it here. It's full of beautiful papers, sentiments, digistamps (black and white plus precoloured), and a selection of cutting files to make your own stencils too!!



We'll be back next week with another fabulous guest designer so make sure you pop back then and don't forget to add your entry to this month's challenge ....

Just click here  and scroll down to add your entry to the linky!!!

Ula′s Life

Mixed Media Tutorial by Claire

Good morning crafty friends! Claire here with a tutorial using lots of gorgeous goodies from Polkadoodles to create a mixed media canvas. First things first though, don't forget to enter our challenge ...  

 Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes

we've got an awesome prize and you don't want to miss your chance to win these beauties!!

 

Just click here and scroll down to add your project to the linky!!

For my tutorial I've used lots of my favourite Polkadoodles products (you can find links to all the stamps, dies and the beautiful cd collection at the end of this post) to create an A4 canvas:

After spending a happy hour browsing through all the beautiful elements on the Belle Papillon collection I decided on my colour scheme and printed off lots of lovely goodies to use on my project. I always print sheets that I want to collage onto copy paper and for the other layers I use Ultimate Graphic 160gsm paper (link at end of post) from Polkadoodles - it's brilliant for printing on and the best card I've found for using alcohol markers too so it's also great for digistamps.

Once I'd printed everything out, I used Liquitex Matte Medium to stick the papers to my canvas board - I just tore papers and layered them up. I often use a wash of diluted white gesso at this stage but everything was fairly muted so I didn't bother on this project. Next job was to stencil in some ivy use a little green acrylic paint.

I also stencilled in some roses, again using acrylic paint, I only wanted part of this stencil so I positioned it and masked the unwanted areas with post-it notes before getting busy with the paint and a little cut'n'dry foam.

Once the paint was dry I repositioned the stencil and applied a layer of Superthick Slap it on - any 3d glossy gel medium will do for this. 

Remove the stencil and sprinkle on clear microbeads - these little jokers go everywhere so I find it best to use a container to catch them rather than trying to use paper as you would with glitter/embossing powder.

While that was drying I chose the next layer of elements for my canvas. I also used the paint left on my cut'n'dry foam from the stencilling to dye some seambinding ribbon - just dab the foam in a teeny bit of water and there will be a lovely puddle of colour to swoosh the ribbon through!

Next is a bit of an assembly job using silicone glue - I didn't use all the elements I'd cut out as I didn't want to cover all the background up but I'll use them on another project. I also added ribbon and little brads to the tags I'd printed.

Next I added splatters of white pearl and gold acrylic paint, just dilute the paint with water and flick with a brush or tap the brush on another to create the splatters.

Here's a pic of the background so far, I looooooove splatters lol so tend to get carried away

Next comes the best bit, lots of die cutting and stamping. I've used watercolour paper for this as I wanted to paint with distress inks. I find it easiest to die cut first, ink up the stamp and lay the die cut over the stamp and press with an acrylic block. The flowers are cut from Foamiran, coloured with gelatos, heated with my heatgun to shape and then layered. The butterflies were made out of lots of layers of the music sheet paper that I'd printed onto copier paper - I used 5 layers for each butterfly.

Next assemble the die cuts and add some raffia, angel hair and a few resin roses highlighted with gilding wax to finish the canvas

Thanks for visiting, I hope you've enjoyed my tutorial!! 

Don't forget to enter your project in this month's challenge.

 Just click here to go to the link up.

We'll be back next week to introduce our first Guest Designer!!

We're so excited!

Claire xx

Polka Doodles Belle Papillon A5 stamp set	Bella Fleur Large stamp set	Birdhouse Doublet Die set	flower Flourish die	Flowers 1
Belle papillon crafting kit	PolkaDoodles Butterfly 1 ′Doublet′ die	Polkadoodles dies - Flower Branch die set	Ultimate Graphic 160gsm (NS)