Hello friends! Welcome! Spring is just around the corner. My favorite season. I just love when the flowers start blooming. Everything is made new again. I wanted to share a quick picture of some quick "five minute flowers" done with watercolors.
For 2016 I have decided to participate in Life Book. If you don't know about it or want more information on weekly classes jam packed with tips, tricks, and techniques taught by some amazing mixed media artist then go check out Tamara Laporte over at Willowing.
“Life Book, a celebration and honouring of YOU”is a year-long mixed media art classorganised by Tamara Laportefrom Willowing Arts.
"Five minute flowers" is one of the classes in this weeks Life Book 2016, Inspired by Martha Lever. She has quite a few workshops and online classes on her blog. Not to mention a beautiful calligrapher. Be sure to check her out!
This seriously is so fun, and addicting. When I first seen what we were doing I thought to myself, "ya right, I cant do this." Martha makes it so easy to do! I just loved this class. I've made about 10 of these little flower pots so far. I'm practicing before I dive into the lesson with my good watercolor paper. Here is a little sneak peak at one of my practice flowers.
Hello friends and welcome to the Mixed Media Attic. This past Wednesday as some of you may know was Ash Wednesday. It is a day of fasting, prayer, and repentance. It is the first day of Lent in Christianity. Lent begins on Ash Wednesday and last about six weeks leading up to Easter. During this time the Churches are devoted to fasting, abstinence, and penitence in commemoration of Christ's fasting in the wilderness.
This year I have decided to join the She Reads Truth Lent Devotional.
Each day there are a few different verses to read and reflect on. After my readings I like to go into my journaling bible and create an entry to correlate with one of the readings for that day. I also have a travelers notebook that I have been journaling in as well to correlate with the day's readings.
Ash Wednesday: Day 1
Day 3
Day 4
Day 6
Day 7
On days 2 and 5 I choose not to do any bible journaling and instead I journaled in my travelers Lent notebook.
During this first week of Lent we read that we serve a merciful and loving God. We fall short of his commandments, which is why he sent His son here for us. God wants us to come to him with humbled hearts, with repentance for all of our evil ways. Our God is a sovereign God, who forgives those that truly seek it. When we repent of our sins and ask God to forgive us, he washes our sins white as snow, and seasons of refreshing can begin. I encourage you to devote some time during this Lent season to dig into God's word. Draw near to Him.
Hello friends and thank you for visiting the Mixed Media Attic today. This week I have been working on an altered printers tray by 7 Gypsies. The possibilities of what you can do to a printers tray are endless. There are so many great ideas for inspiration on Pinterest that you can find. While shopping at my local Michael's store I was rummaging the clearance shelf one afternoon and found this Printers Tray nearly 50 % off the original price. So of course I couldn't pass up the deal, and have been hoarding it in my stash for months. I can't help buying something when its on sale or clearance. You can call me a craft hoarder I suppose, but I seem to always find good use for my discounted goods. Can you tell that I'm tying to make excuses for my self now? Recently while browsing Etsy.com (a website full of handmade, vintage, and other unique goods) for some vintage ephemera and embellishments I found this amazing Shop with the most unique vintage flapper girls. Head over to Lisa's Altered Art Etsy Shop to check out some of her digital files. She also had some coupon codes up on her shop. I wanted to share them with you all. Seriously she has some neat stuff!
COUPON CODES Spend 10.00 and get 10% off. Use Code LAA10 Spend 20.00 and get 20% off. Use code LAA20
Here are one of the digital collage sheets that I have purchased and decided to use.
Supplies Used:
7 Gypsies Printers Tray - White (12 1/8 x 12 1/8 x 5/8)
Prima Marketing Shabby Chic Treasures Resin embellishments
Martha Stewart Wood Stain - Beach Glass
Tim Holtz Idea-olgy - Tissue Tape - Journeyman
DCWV Stack - Vintage Essentials 48 sheets
American Crafts Premium Ribbon Lace
Prima Marketing turquoise flowers
Metal and Wooden Embellishments
Steps:
1. Cut out collage pieces, and cut out squares to fit in each square of the tray
2. Lined the edges of each square with tissue tape or wahi tape
3. Adhere the squares of paper with a matte medium
4. Paint the sides of the tray and edges of the squares
5. Paint all the wooden embellishments
6. Arrange each of the collage pieces and the embellishment, take a photo of how they are arranged so you remember how they originally were placed.
7. Glue everything down.
With that I called it finished.
Be sure check out Lisa's Altered Art Esty Shop for some unique finds to add to your latest projects and art. Thanks for stopping by and checking out my blog post today. I would love to see what kind of altered art you all will come up with. Leave me a comment.
Below I have included a YouTube video for you all so you can watch me create this altered printers tray. Enjoy!
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