Mixed Media Altered Tiles

Happy New Year to blog readers out there.  One of my resolutions this year will be to TRY to post more often!!!

Last year in June I met up with online friends from the fantastic  Cardmaking Paradise forum  at Craft Barn Extravaganza, I decorated 2" ceramic tiles (to share with friends) with magnetic tape on the back to use as a fridge magnet. This was placed in a origami paper box and fastened with ribbon looped through a button I decorated with Sharpies.  I came across the photos and thought I would share with you.  The credit for inspiring me to make these tiles goes to Littlecanvases (Ytube name)  who appears to have closed her account.

Altered Tiles

I painted and stamped a large vintage newspaper sheet (well 1960's) glued to the tile, added images, foiled the edges, added accent beads and glazed with Glossy Accents.



Paper Boxes

The paper boxes are very easy to make and there are several videos online.

Decorated Buttons

The buttons were fun to do, I had several white buttons so sat evenings and played around with them. To finish I rolled the edges along a Versamark pad and into embossing powders to heat emboss.  I glazed with Glossy Accents again, careful not to cover the holes.

Buttons

Excuse my shoddy foam pad, it is much used and abused!

Paper box

Here is the finished package.

MAIL ART

MAIL ART

Wow where has the time gone again.  Last month Sara organised a Mail Art Swap on Cardmaking Paradise forum, I had a great time and received two wonderful envelopes.  Here is another I swapped with a friend.

Mail Art Envelope (front with name covered)

For the envelopes I used printed sheets from my play with Faux Gelli printing and acrylic paints using a silicone sheet.  I ended up with a large supply of sheets, which came in handy for these envelopes.  I opened an old envelope and used this as a template.  Stamped with several images plus images stamped onto tissue, the face painted from the back of the tissue and glued down.  The butterfly was from a preprinted tissue sheet. Great fun.

Mail Art (back)

 

Mixed Media 4" Tile

Here we are approaching November already and I am trying to get my act together and play more with all my piled high craft goodies.    Meanwhile I came across this photo of a 4" swap from August at our craft group.   I have used various decorated bits to create a mosaic background with accent beads glued in the gaps.  Photo is taken a bit on the skew, but original is 4" square.

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Mixed Media Art Tile

 

 

 

The face is from Lynne Perrella set of stamps by PaperArtsy.  I used a piece of mountboard to stamp and colour.  Some areas are coloured with gel glitter pens. I then sealed it with a coat of Glossy Accents.

 

Button Canvas (Double Sided)

I know, buttons and more buttons, but I do have quite a lot of so many different texture and shaped buttons that I have collected for years, it seemed a shame not to use a few of them for this project.

I did show on 6th August an 8" canvas I covered with buttons, this sat on my craft room window sill.  I then had a brain wave and decided to decorate the back of the canvas as well, using a Mucha image for the inset, it is now double sided and I get a choice of which side to view and the neighbours get to see the other.

I painted all the buttons and background with black gesso (though you could use black paint).  Highlighted with Lummiere Halo Gold, Luna Light teal, and Treasure Gold Aquamarine and White Fire.


Button Canvas back view

Below is the front view

Button Canvas - front view

WIRE COILED JEWELLERY

 

I was recently introduced to a fantastic tool, called a Coiling Gizmo, by Jane at our Craft Group. After a practise run, I was bitten by the bug.  I purchased the tool and been having a lot of fun since.  My grand daughter made a bracelet and earrings for herself over the school holidays.  I had a few paper beads from a previous project, so decided to include them in these pieces.  

 

Coiled wire and paper beads jewellery

These are black paper beads I made a few weeks ago, mixed with grey paper which I scribbled with a black Sharpie, after coiling I sealed with Glossy Accents.




Paper Bead Necklace and Earrings

 

Paper Bead Charm Bracelet

 

 

Paper Bead linked bracelet


 

Who knew you could have so much fun with paper strips and thin wire!!!!  Until next time

 



GRANDCHILDREN'S TAKE ON BUTTON DECORATED FRAMES

 

I was lucky to be able to spend some time during these summer holidays with my lovely grandchildren crafting, they made a great job of gluing the buttons to frames then covering with gesso I had provided black and white gesso for them to choose which one they preferred. 

   

 

Amber with her White Gesso highlighted Button Frame with Red and Gold Inka Gold Gilding

 

 

They used Inka Gold to highlight raised areas.  There were plenty of buttons left over and my grandson covered another frame later that day, leaving the buttons unpainted as he liked and wanted to see the various colours.

 

 

Jay's Button Frame with Black Gesso highlighted with green and copper Inka Gold


 

You can see a few charms embedded between the buttons, just to add a bit of interest.  I think they enjoyed making these as the day before we had used eggshells to decorate a frame. Until next time....

 



MORE ON THE BITS AND BOBS THEME

 

 

This is the same idea as in the previous post and will be my swap for next month, this time using eggshells laid on pva glue, with alcohol inks to colour.  Eggshells are soaked and lining removed before applying to glue. This gives quite a matt finish, but you could use a gloss varnish to finish if you prefer.

 



Eggshell swap piece

 

 

 



Eggshell frame closeup