I’m a HUGE fan of all things Alice in Wonderland, the books, the movies, animated and live action, I adore it all! And I often use Alice as an inspiration in much of my work, adding her and her Wonderland … Read More...
Project: Mixed Media Fabric Panel
Using stencils, paste, ink sprays and stamps you can make a wonderful fabric panel wall hanging. Finish it off with ribbon, flowers and embellishments. Learn all the techniques for this mixed media art piece from Tammy Tutterow over on the … Read More...
Technique: Mixed Media Art Canvas with Drip Technique
This stunning mixed media art project has so much fun texture. Sue Carrington will show you how to use Gel Medium for this interesting drip technique on a canvas, adding stamped and brightly colored floral images for a wonderful piece … Read More...
Project: Stamped Wall Art
You don’t just have to stamp on paper, rubber stamping works so well on many different types of materials. This beautiful wall art was made by stamping on canvas. The Paper Artsy blog has directions for using stamps, paints, markers … Read More...
Tutorial: Mini Gnomes for your Garden
This tutorial uses molding putty 
and 2 part epoxy to create outdoor garden gnomes. If that sounds a little intimidating go ahead and use polymer clay. Polymer clay gnomes would do best inside although I’ve had herb markers and garden … Read More...
Project: Dragonfly Card
This awesome card from the Frilly and Funky blog combines using embossing plates, markers, water coloring, die cutting, paint and acetate for the mixed media dragonfly card. I love the layer of clear acetate for the dragonflies wings! Click here … Read More...
Project: Stamped Mixed Media Bag
This interesting mixed media project, a draw string bag filled with message stones, incorporates adding stamping on several different surfaces, silk, felt and stones. Penny will give you tips for stamping and coloring directly on silk and how to fuse … Read More...
Project: Recycled Coaster Art
Do you have any chipboard coaster laying around, I have a huge stack I use for parties. You can recycle those coasters into art buy die cutting a shaped hole in them, layering them and making a niche’, add some … Read More...
Project: May Flowers Card
With all the April showers we’ve had around here I’m expecting lots of May flowers! Shari created this lovely spring tag using embossing paste and a stencil for the rain drop background and a flower rubber stamp colored directly with … Read More...
Inspiration and Freebie: African Scene
Holy cow! How amazing is this African campsite scene? Laura Carson made this fantastic diorama using images from collage sheets along with small paper mache’ boxes and tins for the trunks. She’s got lots of photos on her blog along … Read More...
Technique: Stenciled Brick Background
Over at the Eclectic Paperie blog Kim will show you how to make an realistic looking brick background using stencils, embossing paste and paint. This makes the perfect backdrop for stamped images like she used on her beautiful mixed media … Read More...
Project: Mixed Media Tag
Cheryl used a combination of rubber stamps, paints, die cuts, tissue paper, ink, rub-ons and more for this lovely mixed media tag project. She shares step step directions for making it over on her blog Cheryl’s Paper Artz.
-Heather
Technique: Texture Stamping
Here’s an amazing way to get depth and texture with your rubber stamps. Allison stamped her flourish background stamp with gesso and then applied ink and glitter sprays over top for this fantastic technique. Find her tutorial over on The … Read More...
Tips: One Rubber Stamp, Many Different Ideas
Large background stamps can be some of the most versatile stamps in your stash. You can simply stamp the entire stamp in one color, you can ink it up with multiple colors using markers or ink pads, you can stamp … Read More...
Product Review: Imagine Crafts
I recently got the chance to try out some cool brand new products from Imagine Crafts. These products work perfectly with all types of rubber stamping, mixed media, jewelry, home decor and collage art projects.
For my piece I … Read More...
Project: Mixed Media Journal Page
This wonderful journal page reminds of an old stained glass window in an ancient castle. Linda Cain used paste, stencils, paint, rubber stamps and more to make this artful mixed media creation. You can find out more by visiting the … Read More...
Technique: Custom Envelopes Decorated with Custom Stamps
Don’t send your wonderful hand stamped cards in a plain envelope, make the envelope as pretty as the card! Mark Montano shares how you can make your own large custom stamps using embossing folders and thin sheets of fun foam. … Read More...
Techniques: 10 Ways to Use Ink Sprays
Ink sprays and mists are so much fun to play with and they are so many techniques you can do with them, they can be used on cards, scrapbook pages, collage art and home decor projects using papers and fabrics.. … Read More...
Tutorial: Using Clay in Dimensional Art
Kristi of Addicted2Decorating used a little polymer clay and a weathered piece of wood to make a piece of art. She crafted white flowers for her work. In the tutorial she talks about using spray paint and hot glue … Read More...
Project: Collage Art Bird House
I’m in love with this amazing mixed media bird house project! The Layers of Ink blog has step by step photos to show you how to alter a plain wooden bird house using paints, inks, showing how to add color … Read More...