Foxglove's Mixed Media

Hello again, you wonderful people!  I am back with the last of four Valentine's-themed artist trading coins.  I do have a video up on YouTube, so if you are interested in watching it, please scroll to the bottom of the page or follow this link . I started off by punching the 2.5-inch circle from thickish scrapbook paper, then I traced the heart shape onto a different scrapbook paper and cut it out. (Not that it matters much, but the scrapbook paper I used for the coin shape was double sided, and I ended up painting over the opposite side from what you see in the photo below.) To make the gears, I cut them out of scrapbook paper using the Sizzix/Tim Holtz "Gearhead" die set. I glued the gears onto the hearts and then I covered them black gesso made by Liquitex.  This will make adding the wax more striking. When they were dry, I pulled out the Finnabair Art Alchemy Metallique Waxes in Brushed Iron and Rose Gold. To start, I used an old paintbrush to add...

Hello and welcome back!  I'm so sorry for the disappearance, but I was in a class that ate into my artsy time, but now I am back with a trio altered rolodex cards for you.  These fun little beauties are for a "Snarky New Year's Resolution" swap on the ATCs For All site I trade at.   I was excited for this swap, as it gave me a perfect excuse to use the new Dina Wakley Essential Silhouette stamps that I had just bought.  I blame MixedMedia Jenn ; she had been using stamps from this and a another stamp set over on her YouTube channel, so I eventually broke down and bought them.  I just needed an reason to use them, and this swap was the perfect venue! To start with, the rolos I used are cut from Canson mixed media paper.  I have a circular rolodex file with the 1.25x4" cards, but those are too thin to handle what I'd put them through, even if I glued multiple layers together.  Also, since these rolos are for a swap, I needed to make sure they were ...

Hello, everyone!  I am back with a pair of sun-themed Artist Trading Cards (ATCs) and to show my failed ICAD for Day 6. (There will be a surprise cameo from on my fur-babies, Chubby!) I will start off positively, with the pair of ATCs.  These are for a swap on the ATCSforAll.com trading forums.  If you are interested in trading ATCs, I encourage you to check out this very friendly site! I started off with the way I start most of my mixed media projects - by gluing down bookpages, this time with mod podge (sometimes I'll use soft gel medium.)  I covered the ATCs with a good layer of the mod podge to seal the cards, because I knew I would be using a lot of water later on.  For once, I didn't cover the book text with gesso. After the mod podge had dried, I spritzed the cards with water and dropped yellows and oranges onto the card using DecoArt fluid acrylics and acrylic sprays.  I let the colors mingle by tilting the card and gently swirling the ...