Visit Splicoast and let Birgit Edblom shows you how to make fantastic encaustic (melted wax) backgrounds, perfect for cards or even to make artwork to hang on your wall. Click here for her step by step tutorial and video.
-Heather
Tutorial: Stamped and Embossed Metal Flowers
Join Nathalie Kalbach for a super cool technique, she shows you how to stamp and emboss on metal blanks and then add material to make cool mixed media flowers. I’ve got to try these for myself, right up my alley! … Read More...
Technique and Project: Stamping into Chipboard
Let Vanessa Spencer at the Stampington website show you how to make this stunning journal cover, she uses metal stamps and stamps an impression into chipboard, how cool is that? Click here for her instructions.
-Heather
Technique: Scrapbook Paper Transfer
Join Claudine Hellmuth for Ranger as she shares with you this super cool transfer technique using her sticky back canvas, a sewing machine and scrapbook paper to make an awesome flower necklace, how fun! Click here for the video.
-Heather
Mixed Media Retreat!
If you are looking to explore various mediums along with polymer clay, then you might want to check out the Polymer Clay Collaborative and Mixed Media Retreat!
Click here to go to the website!
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Technique: Image Transfer
Visit the Mademoiselle Chaos blog to learn how to do a cool image transfer technique using paint thinner, works on just about any surface, how cool!
-Heather
Project: Canvas Book
Visit the Stampington and Co. website for instructions from Shona Cole on how she made this totally stunning mixed media canvas book using canvas sheets, ribbons and stamps.
-Heather
Technique: Stamping in Beeswax
Check out this totally cool video from Nathalie Kalbach on the Stampington and Co. site, she teaches you how to stamp into melted beeswax, how neat is that?? Click here to watch the video.
-Heather
Technique: Stamping on Candles
Visit the Stampington website for a fun video on how to add stamped images to candle, neato!!
-Heather
Book Review: Pretty Little Felts
I recently picked up this wonderful new book at my library called Pretty Little Felts by Julie Collings, it’s full of wonderful mixed media projects using felt. There is a little stamping in the book but not much but there … Read More...
Project Video: Mixed Media ATC
I love incorporating my stamps into collage and mixed media projects and so does Pam Carriker, she does amazing work and she recently visited Somerset Studio and filmed a wonderful technique video showing how to use stamps, inks, paints, pens … Read More...
Forgotten Objects
While searching for Halloween and Autumn polymer clay projects, I came across Forgotten Objects, with sculptures by Chris Bivins. I could spend quite some time browsing through his evocative mixed-media sculptures. Click here to go check out his blog … Read More...