Hello arty crafty folks! Hope you all had a wonderful Diwali and enjoyed with family & friends. I am super excited about our upcoming Itsy Bitsy Creativity Carnival, India’s largest art & craft event to be held in Bangalore on December 8 and 9, 2018 at Shankaraa Foundation, Kanakapura road. Hope to see you all there! Amidst gearing up for the big event, I am here with an interesting story of an ardent crafter, Harshada Rege from Mumbai in today’s “Crafter in the Spotlight”. Harshada Read more…
Tag: Mixed Media Paste
Blessed- Mixed Media Canvas
Hello everyone!! Lisa here with today’s Itsy Bitsy Post. This is a bit of a special one as we are coming to the end of our 6 month term with Itsy Bitsy Design Team. I have had the best time ever working with some of the most fabulous products in the market and working alongside the other lovely ladies on the team. So, for this project, I worked on a huge base which was a 20 inch x 12 inch canvas. I worked on the back of the canvas to make use of the frame. Here is what I did… And Read more…
Decoupage Desk Organizer
Hi friends, Gopi Shah here today at Itsy Bitsy’s blog as a guest DT. Really happy to be back !! Today I will share a Decoupage project on a MDF Desk Organizer using various Little Birdie and other products from Itsy Bitsy. Here is a step by step procedure you can follow to create your own decoupage project. To begin, I have used a MDF Desk Organizer from my stash. Firstly, sanded the MDF base with a sanding paper (available locally at any paint shop) and then applied Read more…
Memories Which Last Forever – A Mixed Media Project
Hi friends, Saadia here today on the blog, I will be sharing a mixed media project with you. Let’s start our project: I cut a heart shape from a MDF board and glued pages from a book to it. Next, I mixed Texture Sand with Little Birdie 2 in 1 Mixed Media Paste and applied through a stencil. Covered the heart with diluted white gesso. After that, I colored the heart with Alcohol Splash sprays and Color Splash sprays of my choice. Glued embellishments and covered them with Read more…
A Mixed Media Canvas
Hi friends, Saadia here today! Sharing with you a mixed media canvas. I hope you like it . Let’s start : I glued pages from an old book to my 8×10 inch canvas. Then I mixed Texture Sand with 2 in 1 Mixed Media Paste and applied it to the canvas through a stencil. Covered the canvas with diluted white gesso. Next, I cut a crescent shape from chipboard and glued surgical gauze with gel medium. Stenciled a design with a mixture of 2 in 1 Mixed Media Paste and Texture Sand. Applied Read more…
Mixed Media Art Journal- Tree of Strength
Hi Everyone…….Hema here with you all today…!! Today I’m sharing an art journal which I created with Little Birdie’s recently launched thin cut dies. I wanted to share this tutorial just to show you that even with minimal products you can create a project with an essence of mixed media. So without much ado….I will run you through the process here…… Step1: To begin, I added textures to the journal page with Little Birdie Mixed Media Paste, using it as gesso and Grainy Texture Read more…
Mixed Media Winged Compass
Hello lovely crafters, Lisa here and welcome to my post for the Itsy Bitsy design team. I have been playing with loads of mixed media products including lots of lovely chipboard pieces. Here is my finished creation for which I will share a step by step tutorial with you today. Firstly, I cut a piece of board approximately 8 inch square to work on. I chose it, as I needed a good sturdy background which could take lots of mixed media products and textures. I first covered the background with some Read more…
Live Your Dreams – A Mixed Media Canvas
Hi Everyone, Saadia here, Today, I am sharing a mixed media project with you. I hope you like it. Let’s start : I used an 8×10 inches canvas panel by Monte Marte, as my substrate. I covered it with Little Birdie 2 in 1 Mixed Media paste. I applied the paste through a Little Birdie stencil. Next, I glued my embellishments with Heavy Gel medium – Matte. I glued the flowers with hot glue gun to save time. After that, I covered everything with White gesso. This gesso is Read more…
A Rustic Mixed Media Project on Canvas
Hi Everyone, Saadia here: Sharing with you a rustic mixed media project today. I have used lots of heavy elements in my project. The Heavy Gel Medium by Little Birdie Crafts is ideal for gluing heavy objects. Little Birdie Crafts- Heavy Gel Medium: Transparent, flexible, extra heavy body acrylic gel medium Can be used to glue heavy objects in mixed media projects Extends volume, viscosity and density of acrylic paints along with increasing brilliance and transparency Read more…
Working with Stencils- Some Basic Techniques
Hi Everyone, Saadia here Little Birdie Crafts has recently launched beautiful new stencil designs and great art and mixed media journals. I thought I should share with you some of the very basic stenciling techniques, these will be useful to those who are new to stencils. I used only one design of stencil in almost all of the techniques. Stencils and stenciling: The stencil is usually a thin sheet of material, such as paper, plastic, wood or metal, with numbers, alphabets or a design cut Read more…