Two Peas in a Pod Embracing Happiness - Mixed Media Tag

Happy Saturday!  Let's create a mixed media tag using just a few items that I had on hand.

Ingredients:

#5 Manila tag

Brusho Colours - I used turquois, scarlet, ultramarine, and purple

Mini water spritzer

Shimmerz Dazzlerz in Foiled Again

Stencil with various size circles

Dew Drops in lovely shades of blue  (You need to get your favorite colors in a variety of shapes)

Tim Holtz Ideology Paper Dolls

A pen and straight edge

Rub on sentiment

Liquid adhesive and dimensional tape

Directions:

1.  Spritz your manila tag with water and sprinkle with your desired colours of Brusho watercolour crystals.  Let dry.

2.  Add dimensional texture paste (dazzlerz) through the stencil in the upper left corner and on the right side.  Let dry completely.

3.  Add the rub on.  Notice if you look closely there was a tiny problem with adherence of the letters in two tiny spots.  I filled that in with a black pen.  Shhhhh! Don't tell.

4.  Add the paper dolls with dimensional tape.

5.  Create a border with a pen and straight edge or whatever you choose.

6.  Adhere dew drops as is pleasing to you for accents with liquid adhesive.  Let dry and share your photo with us on our Facebook page!

Hope you've enjoyed this quick little project.  It would really brighten any gift and was just the "art therapy" I needed to brighten my mood as we are staying home and staying safe in the US at this time.

Best wishes and happy crafting to all of you!

~ Victoria

Happy Saturday!  I am happy to show you how make this mixed media paint brush featuring dew drops.

Here are the ingredients you will use:

• Paint brush of your choice
•  Aleene's Tacky Glue
• Clear Gesso
• White Acrylic Paint
• Delta Metallic Gleams - Metallic Bronze
• Plaid Enterprises Liquid Leaf - Florentine Gold
• Art Alchemy Waxes - Opal Magic and Rose Gold
• Tim Holtz Stencil 
• Texturez Dimensional Paste Gold
• Sandra Evertson Cathedral Window
• Dew Drops in black and white (diamonds, dew drops, and tear drops)
• White Thick Cotton Twine

Directions:

1.  Coat your paint brush  and embellishments with Gesso, as needed.  Allow to dry

2.  Paint your paint brush with acrylic paint.

  3.  Add gold texture paste to wooden part of brush through the stencil. Note that I also used vintage matte medium prior to stenciling.  This is totally optional and you don't need to do it.  I also wrapped the brush with twine.  I found it helps hold the stencil in place.

4.  I painted the brush after the dimensional paste dried,  with the metallic bronze gleams.  Once that is dryBegin embellishing!  Sorry for the super messy photo normally I would not even show you this state of work!  Messy messy crafter!

Never be afraid to show your work in process!  I also glued the cathedral frame onto the upper brush next!

5.  This is the brush with all the embellishments glued with tacky glue to the brush.  Notice how the white gaps I had before are gone!  To do this is used the Florentine gold leaf.  It is super liquid and can cover all the little nooks and crannies!  Next I added paper flowers and a charm of Mary in the Cathedral window.

6. Finally I used royal robe and rose gold waxes on the Cathedral window and on other areas of the brush to add highlights.  I use my fingers to do this, but you can always use a make up sponge to apply and buff the wax.

Hope you enjoyed this project!  I'll see you on the 18th for another fun project!

I really hope that you are weathering this difficult time well and having some time for creativity while you are social distancing.

~ Victoria