My scrappin' life

Crew Member Wednesday With Linda

Hi there and welcome to Crew Member Wednesday! Today we have Linda with 2 summery canvasses. I love how she used clear heavy body gel medium with stencils and then used markers to color in the textured translucent flowers! 

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Hello there. It’s already June and here in Norway we are still waiting and hoping for that warm sunny weather. Hopefully by the time this post is live we’ve got at least some days without rain. This month’s project is inspired by summer gardens and it’s a typical project I would make to give away to a friend or someone else who could need a token of love and this is for me more personal than a card.

 

The video shows how I prepare the backgrounds on the canvases with collage, masks, Gel medium and paint. When I was finished with the canvases and kept looking at them I thought they looked too white. So at the end of the video I’ve got some still images. I did paint one of the white backgrounds green before I started working on it with the white acrylic paint and a stencil. The other canvas I used a green inkpad and the same stencil. As you can see this made the canvases totally more interesting for the eye.

 

Using acrylic markers in the process to highlight details

 

Details of the stencil work on the finished project

 

Hope you like it, and any feedbacks on the video is appreciated.

Products used in this project:

     

Linda

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Make sure to drop by every Wednesday for ongoing inspiration by my fabulous Crew!

We would love to see your creations on Birgit's Mixed Media Art Crew Facebook page so if you created something inspired by one of the Crew Members or using any of my products then please share!

 

Crew Member Wednesday With Femke

Hello! It's Crew member Wednesday and Femke is here today with a beautiful scrapbooking spread in her art journal using the Punchanella stamp and the 2 Flowers stencil set. I love the soft feel of these pages created with watercolours and Versamagic inks.

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Hi! It's Femke here!

This month I did something new! Well, to me it is new. I made a scrapbooking layout in my art journal:

First I made a watercolor background with my watercolors and the 2 Flowers stencils from Birgit on the page where my picture comes.

 

I made a background with the stamp “Punchanella” and Versamagic ink on the other page.

I really loved working in a art journal and I think I am gonna do this more often!

I also mades process video where you can see how I made this project:

 

I hope you enjoy my project and the video. Thank you for watching!

Products used for this project

 

Femke

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Thank you so much for stopping by!!

Make sure to drop by every Wednesday for ongoing inspiration by my fabulous Crew!

We would love to see your creations on Birgit's Mixed Media Art Crew Facebook page so if you created something inspired by one of the Crew Members or using any of my products then please share!

 

Creative Jump Start 2017 Is On Sale!!

Creative JumpStart is on Sale!!!

If you're not familiar with CJS, it's a one-of-a-kind online event meant to kick your creativity into high gear in January 2017. It is also my 6th time with CJS and I can tell you that it is amazing and even though I didn't think it was possible, it gets better every year!

If you missed CJS in January then this is your chance to Jump into Summer. Although you can not play along in real time as Jumpers did in January, you will be able to access all the information and galeries in the classroom and you will be able to download all 27 instructional mixed media videos until November 2017!

If you sign up now you will get 20% of the regular price of $ 50 so you pay only $ 40!!

You will learn loads of techniques from a bunch of talented artists! See for yourself:

The line up of teachers is amazing, you really don't want to miss out on this!! :D

I'm proud to be one of those teachers, called “JumpStarters".

Head on over to Nathalie's site to sign up and for more details!

Love,

Crew Member Wednesday With Karin

Hello! It's Crew Member Wednesday again and today we have Karin with a beautiful art journal page using my A5 Dutch Tulips stamp, Dancing in the rain set and Triangle Mesh stencil. I love how Karin used the stencil to create an interesting background and the bold contrast of the red tulips on the blue/green background!

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Hi, it's Karin here!

I had fun creating this ArtJournal page with stamps, a stencil and some insk and I hope to inspire you too.

                                                 

Step 1: I started with some Izink splashes on a journal page

Step 2: After that I scraped the ink  over the page with a card

Step 3: I used the Triangle Mesh stencil and a babywipe to remove some of the ink.

                                                               

Step 4: I added a bit of blue stamping ink around the edges of the page.

                                                           

Step 5: Then I toned the colors a bit down by adding a layer of white paint. 

Step 6:  I stamped the Dutch Tulips on top of the page.

Step 7: Finally I stamped the tulips and the clouds (from the Dancing in the rain set) on a piece of colored paper, cut them out and adhered them on the stamped image.

Materials used for this project:

   

Karin

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Thank you so much for stopping by!!

Make sure to drop by every Wednesday for ongoing inspiration by my fabulous Crew!

We would love to see your creations on Birgit's Mixed Media Art Crew Facebook page so if you created something inspired by one of the Crew Members or using any of my products then please share!

 

 

How To Create Your Own Texture Blocks For Gel Printing - Video Tutorial

About a year ago I made a video for Gelli® Arts about creating texture blocks that can be used for Gelli® printing. I never shared it here on the blog so I thought it would be fun to do that now.

Here are are some pictures of the blocks and some prints made with them + the video showing how the blocks were made.

 

 

 

 

I hope you enjoyed watching the video and you will have fun creating your own texture blocks!

Happy printing!

Crew Member Wednesday With Hermien

Welcome to Crew Member Wednesday! It's June and this month's theme is "Stencils in the spotlight". Today Hermien is sharing 2 beautiful mixed media cards with you. I love how she used a little bit of red as an accent color to the blue/black and white. It makes the cards pop! And hey, what is not to love about the colors of the Dutch flag? :)

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Hi BMMAC lovers ☺

The theme for June is 'stencils in the spotlight', happy me, because I work with stencils all the time, I like the effect, it gives a card more depth and it is fun to do (sometimes it is a big surprise when you lift up your stencil ☺)

I had a pile of left over cards from my previous post , you can read there how I made them.

This time I made two cards.

for the first card I used the stencil 'triangle mesh' and black gesso on top, I recently started to use more black and I like the effect, stamped and embossed 217 and the text, I embossed the hearts also in lime, but didn't like it, so stamped it on a seperated paper and glued it on top....

The second card was stamped with those really nice (knitted) circles (love them!) and I used some number dies (no brand) and washi tape with text and glued the white circle with Birgit's scribbled script circle stamp on top. Of course some doodling to finish.

Both cards together:

What I used to create these cards:

 
     

Have fun creating!

Hermien

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Thank you so much for stopping by!!

Make sure to drop by every Wednesday for ongoing inspiration by my fabulous Crew!

We would love to see your creations on Birgit's Mixed Media Art Crew Facebook page so if you created something inspired by one of the Crew Members or using any of my products then please share!