New Webster's Pages Color Crush A5 Floral Planner Kit

Welcome to the Mixed Media Attic! Today I wanted to share with you all my new Webster's Pages Color Crush A5 Navy Floral Planner Kit, Exclusive at JoAnn Stores.  At the end of September JoAnn's had sent me a birthday coupon for 20% off my entire purchase *including sale items.  Well when I went into the store to do a little birthday shopping for myself, all of their paper crafting supplies were 50% off so when I seen the planner and our eyes met, I knew it was going home with me! This planner ended up being 70% off after using my coupon!! Below I have a link to the video of the planner walk through so you can see what the inside of it looks like. 

https://youtu.be/4BXjPv5mZQY

I've also done a little plan with me video for you to check out, of me making some dashboards and dividers for this planner that I want to use for my blog planning. 

I really like that these planners have the photo pocket in the front along with two side pockets as well.  Now all I need to do is fill this baby up with lots of cute planner goodies. 

For the dividers I used some left over tab stickers that came in my monthly The Planner Society Kit. I also used some left over cards and washi tape from September's kit to make the dashboard below.

I tried to pull together lots of minty green and light pinks to coordinate with the planner.  I had some scraps from the Maggie Holmes Gather collection which were used for the next two dashboards. 

I also wanted to pull some pieces from the Carpe Diem Posh and The reset girl die cuts since the colors meshed so well together. 

Again I used some pieces from Carpe Diem The reset girl, and stickers from The Planner society. 

If you liked my dividers and dashboards and would like to see more on how I made these watch my plan with me video down here below:

Thanks for stopping by, leave me a comment I'd love to hear from you!

xoxo

Krystal

Carpe Diem Posh Planner haul and un-boxing video

My planner is finally here that I pre-ordered back in May (four months ago)! So I'm sure you can imagine my excitement for it to arrive just the other day! I wanted to do an un-boxing video for you all of the new Carpe Diem Posh Boxed Planner Set in "Robins Egg", and a haul of all the planner goodies that I got. Check out the video below or click here to view it.

 I also did an un-boxing video of the Carpe Diem The Reset Girl Planner in "Ballerina", which you can check out here. Thanks for stopping by and happy planning!

xo Krystal

Carpe Diem The Reset Girl Planner un-boxing and haul video

She is finally here!! Yes My Carpe Diem Boxed Planner Set is finally here! I ordered the Ballerina planner back in May and it was on back order.  Well today it has arrived and I just had to do a little un-boxing video for you all! 

Click here to watch.

Happy Planning!

Krystal

Overflowing Blessings Canvas

Hello, and welcome to the Mixed Media Attic! I wanted to share with you all a little canvas that I just finished working on this afternoon.  The verse Psalm 23:5 says "My cup overflows with blessings."  

                                                                                                                                    I had an idea to take that verse and use it on a canvas with some stacked tea cups.  I decided to use some card stock paper from the Illustrated Faith collection "She Blooms".  I used my Silhouette Portrait Die Cutting Electronic cutting machine, to cut out the tea cups. I stacked the tea cups on the canvas before starting, just to make sure there were enough for the height of the canvas. I like to take pictures of the way things are arranged, so when they get moved later I will remember the order that they were in by looking at the picture taken. After making sure there were enough tea cups to stack, I covered the canvas in some printed tissue paper using Liquitex Matte Medium. After it was dry, I added a light coat of white gesso over the canvas. Gesso works great as a primer for your surface. 

I let the canvas dry a few hours before painting. I used some of the Illustrated Faith Acrylic Paints and blended them together using a damp baby wipe.  

For some added texture I used Ranger's black archival ink and some Illustrated Faith stamps around the canvas.

Next I used Liquitex matte medium to glue down the tea cups, being sure to go over the top of the tea cups as well, with the matte medium to help secure them onto the canvas and seal them on. This will help later when I go around the tea cups with a Faber-Castell Big Pitt Brush marker for shadowing. Next I used some of the Illustrated Faith Home Spun Alpha's to read Psalm 23:5 being sure to go over them with the matte medium to help adhere them to the canvas. 

Once the canvas was dry, I went around the tea cups using the Faber Castell markers.  These are great for adding shading.  They are archival quality ink, but you have some time to blend them with your finger before it dries.  

Last I used a fine line sharpie pen to go around all the letters and the tea cups to help them to stand out on the canvas. 

This is such a great verse to help remind me of God's many blessings over my life. Thanks for checking out my canvas today! 

Blessings,

Krystal 

Packed and ready for Revival Camp!

Hello friends!  Happy first day of summer to you!  I'm not sure what part of the world you are reading this from but here in Southern California we kicked off summer with a heat advisory and Temperatures hitting the 120's today... Yuck! This summer I will be joining the Illustrated Faith community and attending their summer Revival Camp. I was asked by a relative where it was at and how long.  I giggled a bit to my self, and replied with a smile "It is online and in my craft room for the next 12 weeks."  

More Information about camp can be found here:

Illustrated Faith Revival Camp Workshop

The Workshop comes with lots of printables, and a packing list.  How cute? I like that the packing list included a color pallet of the colors that are in the printables.  It made it so easy to pull pieces from my stash, from other things I  had already on hand.  I love that one of the printables was an insert to make your own travelers note book for "field notes" and, three different covers for your notebooks with the Revival Camp Logo on them. 

I made two travelers sized notebooks with the printables included with the workshop.  The first one I used the field notes printable and printed about 6 pages front and back, next I cut down the paper to size 8.5x8.5 , followed by printing and cutting down the cover on a sheet of white cardstock (for added weight). I put the cover on top of the field note sheets and made sure every thing was even and straight to be folded in half long ways. Last I opened up the folded paper and took a long arm stapler and stapled 2 staples one at the top center and one at the bottom center of the pages.  I took some washi tape and applied it along the spines of the note books the cover the staples and add some layers to it.

I did the same thing to make my second travelers sized notebook, except for taking blank copy paper and cutting it down to size and using a different color for the cover. The purpose for the blank pages in this notebook are for me to be able to add the weekly devotional and printable embellishments to the pages along with some journaling. This summer during my hike with God through this journey I want to also do some bible journaling that corresponds to the weeks scripture.  Week one spoke from the book of Nehemiah, and about what ignites our passions.  

So Here I sit packed and ready for revival camp. Ready to soak in the teachings from this workshop and dig deeper into his word all while creating and crafting to glorify His great name! I hope you will all join me around the camp fire this summer along with the Illustrated Faith community!  

Blessings Friends,

Krystal