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

Creative Team - Blue Butterfly Tag

Blue Butterfly Girl - Large Mixed Media Tag

By Creative Team Member - Dani Choate

Supplies:

Drafting or thick tracing paper

Ranger - Inkssentials craft tags - Black Size #12

Cadence - Fabric Glitter relief paste

Cadence Style Matt Shabby Chic relief paste - light mint green

Cadence Diamond relief paste - Mint green

Cadence Mixed Media Acrylic Spray Ink -blue

Cadence Mixed Media Acrylic Spray Ink -light purple

Cocoa Vanilla - Wild at Heart - Double Dot paper

Bohemian dreams - Vellum accents

Kaisercraft - acrylic paint "Antique White" (can use various shades to make skin coloured paint)

Stencil Girl - Traci Bautista - Deconstructed Zinnia stencil

Little Birdie flowers - Pearl florettes - Celeste

Little Birdie Micro jewelled florettes (Classic)

Little Birdie Flowers - Serenade (Tropical Starburst) - blues

Scrapbook Adhesives - Dimensional squares

Sharpie - Extra fine - black & white

Prismacolor pencils (or any good coloured pencils)

Kuretake - Gansai Tambi - silver calligraphy watercolour

450 glue

Tombow Mono liquid glue

plain black lightweight cardboard

round brush - size 8

ribbons

Instructions:

- Rough sketch a face onto the black tag in light pencil

- Fill in the face and neck  shape with a 'skin colour' paint as background

- Use pencils to shade out the face and add features

- Use extra fine black Sharpie for details & extra fine white Sharpie for highlights.

- Using tracing paper to give you the shape, cut out the Cocoa Vanilla Double Dot blue paper to use as a blackout background (this should hide any rogue sketch lines)

- Use silver watercolour to add waves or texture lines to the hair

- Mount the tag onto black card with a 2mm border

- Separately, onto the thick drafting paper, using the Stencil Girl stencil, stencil 3x flowers

         1- using Diamond paste

         2 - using Style matt paste

         3 - using glitter fabric paste

- Wait for these to be fully dry and fussy cut them out. However, make sure to cut the Matt paste Zinnia down by one petal around the circumference so it is a smaller flower and the Diamond paste Zinnia down by 2 petals so it is an even smaller flower

- Mount all three flowers in size order using dimensional squares to pop-up each layer

- Glue the centre of this flower stack to the hair of the girl making sure it is approximately within the centre of her beehive hair-do

- using glue, attach the first 3 large blue flowers. Then add the next 3 smaller cream flowers

- Attach all other flowers in a diagonal movement from the top left hand corner down to her right ear

- Mix two colours of Cadence Mixed Media Spray and use like ink to give some shading and dimenion to the edges of her hair

- Using the same ink and a size #8 round brush paint some leaf fronds onto tracing or drafting paper (this may take some practise but you can always use these extras on another project)

- Fussy cut the best of the fronds out

- Tuck the leaves in, around and under the bottom half of the flower stack

- Add three Cocoa Vanilla vellum butterflies. Only attach with glue using the middle line of the piece so that the butterflies look like they are flying

- Finish off the entire tag with coordinating ribbon