This year I decided to start 2025 with a few guiding aspirations. In the past years began with either no specific goals, or with huge goals. The huge goals seemed impossible to tackle after the first few days and so I gave up. Having no goals also left me floundering and not achieving as much …
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Discover Your Core Values: A Guide to Finding What Truly Matters, plus a mixed Media art exercise!
https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZgDgB1pxACs?si=qfXkkaMntKQ2Qaw8 Visit HERE for the you tube video Have you ever thought about what truly drives you? What qualities and principles shape the way you live your life? These guiding principles are known as core values, and they play a crucial role in helping us lead fulfilling, authentic lives. In this post, and in my …
Exploring Geometric and Organic Shapes in Collage
Welcome to 2025! I hope you all had a fabulous Christmas! Are you well rested ready for a new year filled with creativity and collage!? I'm on week 8 of the 100 days of collage skill share course. It is run by Froyle Davies and you can find out more HERE. This takes us up …
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Christmas Collage Freebie!
I am having a short break over Christmas from my 100 days of collage challenge. As usual, I have been run down and poorly during December so far. I've been unable to keep up with my usual arts and crafts activities. So I'm taking a break. I am just doing some easy arts and crafts …
Exploring Narrative Techniques in Collage Art
Hello and welcome back to the 100 days of collage challenge! I am undertaking the 100 Days of collage course on Skillshare run by Froyle Davies. You can join the course here! In this week's class, we explored using text in our work to give our collages narrative. Day 43: Crafting Dynamic Storytelling In this …
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Week 6: Exploring Mixed Media techniques in 100 Days of Collage
Can you believe it? We have reached day 42 of 100 days of collage?! If you'd like to do your own 100 days of collage why not join the Skill Share class HERE. I have filled one art journal and have started a fresh new journal this week! Day 36: Celestial Skies In this class …
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Days 8-14 of my 100 days of collage challenge!
Week two of the 100 Days of collage challenge! (You can find the skill share course HERE) This week focuses on found objects! Found objects My collage on day 8! The challenge was to find and include as many found items as possible in my collage. I included vintage items like a vintage stamp, a …
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My 100 Days of Collage: Techniques and Inspirations from Days 6 & 7
I'm Continuing with my 100 days of collage project. This project is inspired by Froyle Davies. She has created the class, "Celebrate your creative self: Mixed media art class; 100 days of collage," on SkillShare. Days 6 and 7 of the course use two things that I love: layers and Gel plate printing! You can …
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100 Days of Collage: My Creative Journey
This week I have started a little personal project to explore the world of collage. I'm specifically exploring how I can incorporate collage techniques into mixed media artworks. To do this I am planning on making a collage a day for 100 days! I am using the course "Celebrate Your Creative self- mixed media art …
Negative space leaf painting video
Head to my Youtube channel to watch my video on creating negative space leaf paintings. This technique is great for creating beautiful artworks in their own right, or fabulous mixed media background papers for collage and paper crafts. Below are some examples of negative space painting I've created and some of the ways in which …
Mushroom Moon Designs 