Cosmic Beetle by Szafranowe Twory

I'll share a little secret with you: children's board books are perfect for art journals! That's all thanks to their thick pages, which can handle all kinds of mixed-media experiments!

​So, I upcycled a book like that from my sons, and so far, I’ve managed to decorate the cover using casts from various molds. I was in the mood for a metallic "wow" effect, so I first painted everything with black gesso and then went wild with metallic waxes! These are definitely my favorite creative shenanigans. How do you like the result?

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Grow your wings by Szafranowe Twory

 ​Hey there!

​I absolutely love painting on trash, so I was over the moon when my husband gave me some old motherboards from a few random computers 😅

​This time, I used one of them as the background for this rather unusual piece of decor!

Admit it - aren't flowers and gears a match made in heaven? I painted them with impasto paint, followed by liquid acrylics and waxes. Plus, my favorite Lady from the ephemera se - she goes with everything, but wings suit her exceptionally well!

​How do you like my project?

Finnabair products I have used - all the images linked to Mixed Media Place or online store:

Colourful Experiment by Lori Woods

 Hello creative friends!  

When I got the new Finnabair effect paste sets, I knew they would be great for stencils but I also wanted to see what else I could do with them. I decided to create this project as a kind of experiment and one of the Southampton Butterflies decoupage sheets had the perfect background to start.

I spread a nice thick layer of the Enchanted Pearl paste onto some old plastic packaging and places some chipboard shapes on top of this. When the paste dried, it had a nice solid flexible finish so that I could just peel it from the plastic, trim it around the chipboard and turned into a beautiful opalescent embellishment! For the Mermaid paste, I decided I would use it to fill some tiny glass bottles to create some magical little potions for my experiment.

I then layered everything out on the background with the perfect picture of a mad scientist to go with it and I think I will call this experiment a success!

Finnabair products I have used - all the images linked to Mixed Media Place or online store: