Mixed media art layout

I think it's always lovely seeing how someone starts off with a clean slate of paper, splashes random papers, doilies, paints, spray mists, modeling paste, metal embellishments (do you get the picture yet?) and magically turn it into a wonderful piece of art! Well, perhaps for these professional artists, it was more of an organized randomness (??!!). And I find it fascinating to watch the whole process, of which I am ever so thankful for, in Youtube. So many times as I watch the process, I'm going like, hey, are you sure you wanna spray it like that? Or, I'd be thinking, what's the point of putting that paper there? And then finally you see how it all comes together and you go, Aaahhh....

Anyway, I attempted my first mixed media layout and I have only one word to describe it, LIBERATING! :)  It was an exciting feeling just letting your fears and inhibitions go and just experimenting with the mediums you have and not worry about doing it properly or measuring, for that matter. If you are a highly compliant person like me and feel that you have to do everything by the rules, I'd highly recommend that you try it too! This is how mine looks like ...

I still have lots of practice to go but suffice to say, this will not be my last attempt at randomness. Here's some closeups of the layout..

Besides some of the medium that I've listed above, I've also used cheesecloth (ya, I know! Isn't that fun??), gesso, stamping, tissue paper (not the type that you use to clean your nose, it's from Tim Holtz, I think it's called tissue wrap), die cuts, wooden embellishment and alcohol ink. I think that's all! :)

I hope you have your own exciting time scrapping too!

Thanks for looking  :)

House of Hospitality (Tutorial)

Hello everyone! Hope all of you are having a good week so far.

If you had read my previous post, you would have seen this house that I constructed as a vehicle to store my disposables. On this post, I'm going to run through a little bit more of how I did this out of an empty box and some cardboards. Here's the photos of the front and back view of the house again. 

I'm going to show you a few photos of how it holds my disposable plates, cups, serviettes, cutlery and even stirrers.

Front of house/plates

Patio at front of house/cutlery

Back of house/serviettes and cups

 

For stirrers or small dessert spoons/forks

And since plates and cups and even serviettes can come in different sizes, you would need to decide which is the size you would probably be using most of the time and make sure your house, patio and tree is long/wide enough to hold them. 

It all started when I bought the "On the Fence" die from Tim Holtz and was looking for ways to use it. And then I had this box that stored a toy from my son of which I was about to chuck away when I saw the potential of using the fence to line it around the box and the box to hold my house. And an idea was formed.

I wrapped the box around with cardstock.
Then cut strips of the fence to ensure it can go round the box.
I measured the width of the house using cardboards. That became my wall.  I used my Tim Holtz "bricks" embossing folder to emboss the imprints of bricks all over a grey cardstock and then cut to measure that around the wall of the house and adhere to the cardboard.
Then I cut the shape of the roof using cardboard and wrapped with cardstock too.

The red patio box was used to store my son's satchels of fruit puree. I emptied the contents and also wrapped it with red cardstock paper. I used a glittered foam and cut the edge with Tim Holtz's On the Edge Ornate die

Embellished in whatever way you like.
I used Tim Holtz's tissue wrap Melange to wrap around the red box. You can used Ranger's Glue and Seal to adhere the tissue wrap. Punched a hole and hanged some charms.

Time to dress up the house! I placed a Tim Holtz's Weathered Clock bigz die and Spellbinders Window Two die. Isn't it quite adorable that the window can be opened? Love the detailed design like that. Added some tiny flowers on the "window sill" :)

Hung a tavern sign using Tim Holtz's Hanging Sign die. This is a steel die which works well with thick materials so I cut it with a grunge board so that it would be sturdy and wrapped it with cardstock and french script stamp and flowers and the words "House of Plenty.

Using freehand, I drew the outline of a tree top with cardboard and then trace it again on cardstock to form the outline.

 Then I started sticking leaves all over and bunches of flowers.

I used a really lovely paper from Prima Marketing called Orchard. I fussy cut the tree out from the paper to adhere to the tree I created. For the trunk, I used my Tim Holtz woodgrain embossing folder.

Next, I used my Spellbinders Beaded Squares die and stamped this caption and added some flowers and leaves. The butterfly is also a Spellbinders Les Papillions die.

And there we have it! A finished house where my friends and family will always find warmth and friendship whenever they enter.

Thanks for dropping by! Hope you have fun creating too.