Week three of the 100 Days of collage challenge! (You can find the skill share course HERE) This week's focus was Mixed Media Mastery! For Day 15 our prompt was to create a mixed-media collage that explored the beauty of nature. We were encouraged to incorporate elements like leaves, flowers, or twigs. We created our …
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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 …
New Digital up on Etsy
Be sure to check out the latest digital kit on my Etsy shop. This 20 page digital kit is bursting with vintage floral and botanical images, scrappy-paper elements and tags galore! In this Vintage scrappy flowers kit, there are 11 different paper designs, 3 sheets of tags, 2 pages of collage elements, a sheet of …
Halloween! Free printable!
Autumn is here and Halloween is fast approaching, but there's still time to do some Halloween crafting! Click the link below to download your FREE PDF file of Halloween junk journal printables that I have designed for you! halloween-free-23Download This free printable includes a selection of spooky papers in lined and unlined versions plus gift …
New Digital Kit
Vintage Barbiecore, Edwardian Barbie-inspired, pink roses-themed digital paper kit with fussy cuts, journal pages and ephemera! Head on over to my Etsy shop to purchase my latest Digital Kit! This vintage-style kit is full of delicate pink papers, beautiful vintage roses and Edwardian-style ladies. I designed this kit envisioning how Barbie would look if she …
Christmas themed sketchbook Workshop!
Hi there! Today I had great fun running an all-day, Christmas themed, sketchbook making workshop for the fabulous Blackburn Artists' Society. In today's workshop, I showed the Blackburn Artists how to make three different sketchbooks using only one sheet of paper in each. We made the pages of the books using different paper folding techniques …
Welcoming Autumn
It's official, September has arrived and I am here for it! Autumn is my favourite time of year. I love the changing leaves, the sunlight, acorns and pine cones, mushrooms and toadstools, crunching through dried leaves, wearing jumpers and lighting candles in the home again. Conkers- on my morning walk In April I started morning …
Mushroom Moon Designs 