Creative Team - See the Beauty Mixed Media Art Journal Page

See the Beauty - Mixed Media Art Journal Page

By Creative Team Member - Dani Choate

Supplies:

Cadence Mixed Media Acrylic Spray - light purple
Cadence Diamond Metallic relief paste - mint green
Cadence Matt Shabby Chic relief paste - light mint green
Cadence Liquid Pearls Fluorescent Pink
Cadence Mini hearts stencil - CADMA21
Crafts 4U Leafy Branch Die - 70038
Crafts 4UHoneycomb Chicken wire Frame - 10191
Plain black lightweight card
Plain lemon lightweight card
Plain orange lightweight card
Simply Dies - 3leaves die - SDQZ0025
Simply Dies  -Birds on a Branch die - SDSE7018
Vicky Boutin - All The Good Things paper - Blossom to Awesome
Kaisercraft -Wood veneer Hanging Birdcage - FL544
Rosie's Studio -Wood veneer Whimsy Words
Authentique - 'Petite Diction' sticker words
Lawn Fawn - LawnCuts - Custom craft die - 'i love you'
Little Birdie -Pearl Florettes (Tropical Starburst)
Little Birdie -Pearl Florettes (Celeste)
Little Birdie  -Pearl Florettes (Classic)
Porta Craft - mini rinestones
Dylusions Square Journal
Sakura Pigma Micron pen - .005
450 glue
Tombow Monoliquid glue
Pink thread

Instructions:

- Start with blank double page. You will be working lengthwise within the book.

- Spray and splat Cadence Mixed Media Ink randomly over the page

- Once dry, tape the Cadence heart stencil (MA21) so that the bottom edge will not be even

- Stencil down the middle of the journal page using Cadence Style Matt relief paste in light mint green

- Die cut - 3x leafy branch die (in black)

                   - 2x leaf die (in black)

                   - 1x honeycomb frame die (in orange)

                   - 1x honeycomb frame die (in lemon)

                   - 2x Lawn Cuts 'i love you' die (in black)

                   - 1x bird on a branch (in black)

- Fussy cut a number of flower clusters out of the Vicki Boutin paper and some extra leaves

- Arrange the flowers from the paper and pop-up some with dimensional tape and attach down to the page

- Slide black leaves and fronds underneath and around the flowers

- Cut small sections of honeycomb frame in orange and yellow and add these underneath as well, stepping each colour three times around the cluster

- Add the wood veneer title, along with the 'Petite Diction' phrase line running along the bottom line of the title

- Sit and glue one single black bird on the top side of the phrase line

- Attach a few random colours of Little Birdie small florette flowers

- Use one 'i love you' die cut and remove the end wave from it. Use it to lengthen the other 'i love you' die cut - this will be what your hanging birdcage will be attached to

- Lightly glue the long 'i love you' die to the birdcage and glue the birdcage onto the right hand page - As we are working lengthwise this will actually be the bottom page

- Use a teardrop (or any single row linear stencil) to add mint green Diamond Paste teardrops falling from the flower cluster

- Use Cadence coloured pearls to represent strings of beads falling from the bushes - also add some dots at the top of the page

 *** WAIT FOR THESE TO DRY ***

- Attach rhinestones similarly alongside these other elements

- Make sure raindrops, beads and rhinestones are staggered in length

- Stuff a tangled nest of pink thread under the bottom edge of the entire cluster

- Add rhinestones to the birdcage, the 'i' in the 'i love you' die element & on the 'i' in the title

- Finally hand write the quote that ties all the elements together

" I don'task for the meaning of the song of a bird

or the rising of the sun on a misty morning.

There they are, and they are beautiful"

                                                -Pete Hamill