No ordinary Christmas - by Anastasia Korvyakova

Hi Dears! Anastasia here. 

Today I'd like to show you how easy to turn ordinary Christmas tree decorations into unique ones with liquid and metallique acrylic paints.

I took white cones (from Styrofoam) and colored up them with Liquid acrylic paints from latest release - Nude, Coral, Ochre, Crimson, Lime Green. These paints are perfectly blended with each other and gives beautiful color combinations.

I’ve highlighted some places with White Pearl wax(this is also a new product) and with other waxes.

I decided to add “hats” to my cones and used die-cut flowers for this, which I covered with embossing powders and various waxes.

All details of creating process watch in my video tutorial here:

Products I have used - all the images linked to Mixed Media Place online store:

Gingerbread House by Katja

Hello! I made a Gingerbread house and used some candy and mixed it with mixed media products from Finnabair. This rusty birdhouse got a makeover. Now it is a Christmas decoration for my Christmas table and I can tell some stories about it on the holidays.

This birdhouse is my candy and ginger bread house. Used metallic paint and liquid acrylic paint to paint the gingerbread. On the roof with the candy there is lot of the modeling paste.

I have used Snowflake paste with glitter to get my house sparkling and snowy. Under the house there is a wintery landscape. Not anyone is allowed to enter this candy house. Yes, I have used real candy in my project. I this is not  ideal, but I did a try and it was scary before everything have dried up. Now I have a my gingerbread house for Christmas.

There is a video waiting for you if you like to watch.

Thank you and take care! Katja

Products I have used - all the images linked to Mixed Media Place online store:

Altered brush by Kasia Salmanowicz

Hello!

Can the brush be winter or Christmas? If you do mixed media projects, then YES! This is how I decided to decorate an ordinary brush that has been waiting in my studio for some time.

Due to the fact that we have Christmas season, I thought that such a decoration would be an interesting solution or a great gift for an artist, what do you think?

For decoration, I chose Finnabair metal accessories, which you can find in the Mixed Media Place store. For this element from the Prima Marketing mould, natural accessories, artificial twigs and mini gloves made of HDF material. After gluing and drying, I painted the whole with white gesso. Then I started to color the project. I used a new color of liquid acrylic paint that recently came on sale.

Then I gently covered the whole with waxes - I chose two NEW colors, White Pear and Graphite. They have beautiful colors and they worked perfectly in this project. I also added a beautiful paste that glistens like ice crystals;))

Hugs,

Kasia Salmanowicz

Products I have used - all the images linked to Mixed Media Place online store:

October Art Recipe winner

 Hello friends!

Today we are happy to announce the winner of our October Art Recipe. Thank you for all the projects, you have created being inspired by our moodboard!

We are happy to announce that the winner of October 2020 Art Recipe is Lori W with this project:

Wonderful textures and worn effect!!

To the winner: you are invited to be our Guest Designer and you win Finnabair products pack so please write an e-mail to us at artmail@finnabair.com to establish all details :) 

To all participants: thank you so much for playing with us! And if you feel similar to us regarding the winning project, please leave some love under this blog post in comment section. 

Also please remember, that new challenge is still open and the rules are simple: you need to stick to the colour palette and use at least 2 of the products listed in a challenge. 

Have a great day! 

Finnabair team