Handmade postcards using mixed media techniques
Tag: craft
Publisher & designer of UPPERCASE, Janine Vangool’s sketchbook revival class
In this Sketchbook Revival session Janine Vangool “explores the creative possibilities of turning your sketchbook into a “text” book, while spending time with your thoughts to create personal messages (and more) using tactile, pre-digital lettering methods.” During this session we watch Janine utilise a myriad of printing tools and techniques to add text and fonts …
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Pottery Pumpkin
In October I got the opportunity to have a go at creating my very own pottery Pumpkin. I attended a pottery pumpkin making workshop with my mother in law at the Pendle Pottery studio in Barrowford. I am very pleased with the results especially as this is really my first proper go at pottery since …
Mixed medium assemblages
Today I am sharing with you a recent body of work I created which consists of several mixed medium assemblages. Assemblage is art that is made by assembling disparate elements – often everyday objects – scavenged by the artist or bought speciallyhttps://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/a/assemblage These pieces were created using various mediums- collage, alcohol inks, acrylic paints, textiles …
60 second how to videos and autograph journal kit release!
Hi, this week on Mushroom Moon designs I have created four 60 second mini how to videos which will be arriving, one each day, over on my socials (Facebook and Instagram). In these videos you can find quick and easy makes for your junk journals including a mini book made of scraps, a collaged journaling …
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Margaret Brice Designs
Paper crafting, card making, painting, knitting and all things creative run in our family. I've been very lucky to receive crafty genes from my Mum, who also received crafty genes from her mother, my Nan, Margaret Brice. Unfortunately Margaret passed away at Christmas last year. But her Crafting and creativity lives on in her children …
Butterfly pocket size travellers notebook
Here is the Butterfly pocket sized travellers notebook I have made! The pages measure 9 cm x 14 cm and it contains 56 pages Front and Back. The note book has a cover made from golden card stock and vintage floral fabric, with added stitched reinforced corners. It is fastened with more fabric through gold …
Cereal Bar box transformation!
Hi everyone! Today I wanted to share with you all a challenge I set myself to use as much of a piece of recycling as possible to make some journal ephemera. This was a really fun challenge and I succeeded in turning this..... into this! To do this I cut up the box into segments …
Mixed media Collage tags!
I have been loving all things mixed media recently and have just made some tags for my junk journals using collage, sewing and tea stained papers. I started the process by making the collage on some sturdy card stock- the card I used is up-cycled from some promotional leaflets but you could use cereal boxes …
