Frosted Designs - November Mixed Media Kit reveal

The 2013 November Mixed Media Kit is here!! Yay!!

I had so much playing with the plaque from the kit, making it into a little love sign. 

Here's a little slide show on how I put it together: 

a couple close ups:

I just love how the ink wicked into the flower.

I had a lot of fun doodling around the circles making them into flower, and the tiny coordinating polka dot buttons perfectly matched the ink colors!

The polka dot letters from the 2013 October Mixed Media Kit worked extremely well and I love being able to combine my kits together.

It's so much fun to get a kit each month, sometimes you get things you wouldn't ordinarily buy, but that's the fun of it because sometimes you are so happy when you try something new!!

November 2013 Mixed Media Paper Kit Pigma Sensei Manga Drawing Set October 2013 Mixed Media Paper Kit

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Flapdoodle: noun

foolish, empty, and often specious talk, writing, ideas, or opinions

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Creative Inspirations - Inspired by Anything Goes

Our Creative Corner - words, words, words

Simon Says - Anything Goes

My first steps are painting the back and sides of the plaque, and covering the front with watercolor paper. I find that the heavier paper works best with mixed media than regular card stock paper. Then I used molding pasted through a stencil to create the swirly pattern on the belly and let it dry overnight, just to make sure it cured. I colored the molded swirls with a PITT pen, and just love how it came out.

I cut a wing out of chipboard and covered it also with watercolor paper, colored the base with the mint gelato and then using one of the stamps that came with my set, I colored it with my Big Brush pen. I repeated the image over the entire wing to get a background. 

The sentiment was stamped separately and cut out and lightly washed with the metallic melon gelato.

I stamped the leaf design with gelatos and then went back over the image with my PITT pen to bring out the detail a little bit better.

The flower around the eye was stamped first with the gelato, but it didn't show up as well as I hoped so I went back in and colored the image using my water brush. Doodles around the edges of the bird with a PITT pen.

Genuinely Jane Studios - wooden bird plaque

Faber Castell - gelotos in metallic melon and mint green

stamp

Big Brush pen - Cold Grey

Pitt Pen - black, light yellow glaze

Close to My Heart - stamps, Beauty and Scrapbook Sentiments ( poets 0

Recollections - floral embellishments

Golden - molding paste

stencil - misc. ( from a home improvement store )

water brush

Hold your breath and put on your seat belt....this video is guaranteed to make you dizzy!

 I did edit the darn thing, so I have no idea why it is upside down or why it's speeding through and continuously looping! This is a learning experience for me, so hope you don't mind being part of the journey. Hopefully each one will get a little bit better....fingers crossed! If you have any suggestions for an editing program, I am open...oh, so definitely open! It is kinda funny though, lol

dudgeon: noun

a fit or state of indignation

 

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Fab 'n' Funky - #173 For the Girls

Inkspirational - #22 Anything Goes

Anything But a Card Challenges - CHALLENGE #20...DUST OFF YOUR OLD SUPPLIES

old products:

The flower and small golds beads are so old that the packaging no longer exists. The wired beads came from my Christmas wreath box ( the one I use to change up my wreaths from time to time ) The felt flower button is about 5 years old and the gold leafing is about 10 years old. The crown was in my die cut scrap bag, haven't a clue where it came from. The orange paint is from my stock, it's a large bottle, been there forever!

 

Here begins a new adventure for the Art MoB: bird plaques. I had Genuinely Jane Studios custom make them for me at a 5x7" size. I have to say I am really enjoying altering them.

I sewed the wooden bead and small gold beads through the felt button before adhering it with 450. I scraped the leftover 450 that gets on my finger over the birds wing and then gold leafed where it was sticky.

( The wing is made from chipboard. )

The tail is made from a large flower folded in ½ with the botton sewed through the fold to keep it nice and tight.

  

new products:

Genuinely Jane Studios - wood bird plaque

Walmart - wood beads

Helmar - 450

flower button...not sure but I won it recently, if anyone knows, please tell me, I'd like to order some more of them