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…
Category: Mix media
Antique Lantern with Little Birdie Succulents
Hello guys, Mukta here today at Itsy Bitsy’s blog to share with you a new and exciting project that I made. I created this lantern from scratch, using products from Itsy Bitsy store. This lantern measures 6 Inches on the sides at the base and 14 Inches in height. It tapers at the top and measures 3.5″ on all sides. The net weight is 750grams…so its pretty light but very sturdy. It took me 4 days to design it and 15 days to build. Out of which, 2 days I just decorated it using gorgeous succulents Read more…
Mixed Media Art Journal Ideas
Hello everyone! Pooja here, Today I will share with you a tutorial of my new mixed media project. This project is a variation from other mixed media creations because this time I have tried my hands on Little Birdie’s new Mixed Media Art Journal. Little Birdie has come up with two types of journals and I want to share a few thing about them with you in this post. Little Birdie art journals offer wonderful options for journaling enthusiasts and the best part is, you can save your artistic Read more…
Venetian Masquerade- A Mask Candle Holder
Hello Lovelies…….. This is Hema here today sharing with you all my new work… a Venetian Mask candle holder. This month we are totally focused on our newly launched shades of CHALK PAINTS. These are very smooth, quick drying, easily soluble with water. Also, you can mix them with mediums like- texture pastes, heavy body gel, soft gel mediums. You can use them on any home decor, altered art, canvas, paper, wood bases. The quick drying paints give more coverage with a single coat and the Read more…
I Just Wanna Make Nice Things
Hi lovelies. Lisa here with today’s post and I am so happy that I get to have fun and play with a selection of Itsy Bitsy’s stunningly gorgeous products, which are growing by the minute. The team is concentrating on the beautiful Chalk Paints which are just awesome and are available in a rainbow of colours. So… here is what I created…. I chose an 8″ x 8″ piece of greyboard to work on as I needed a sturdy background to add lots of lovely Itsy Bitsy mixed media products to. I covered Read more…
A Vintage Mixed Media Altered Box
Hi Everyone, Saadia here! Today, I want to share with you an altered box. I used Little Birdie’s recently launched colors of Chalk Paints. The chalk paints are fast drying matte acrylic paints. They can be used on home decor projects, furniture, canvas , paper and even very slick surfaces. They give beautiful coverage even with one coat and the color range is just amazing. I hope you like my project. Lets start: I covered the box with Little Birdie’s white Gesso. This Read more…
This Too Shall Pass- A Mixed Media Canvas
Hello everyone, This is Mukta here! Today I have a mixed media canvas tutorial for you all using Little Birdie’s newly launched Chalk Paints. The 10 happy and fun shades in the new range are really cool!! These matte chalk paints are fast drying, give good coverage and are perfect for any kind of surface……which makes them perfect for mixed media projects, home decor or even layouts. Before, I start with today project, I would like to dedicate this canvas to my father who is right now Read more…
‘Live Every Moment’ Decoupage Tray
Hello lovelies. Lisa here with my newest creation for the Itsy Bitsy Design Team. For this project I kept my focus on the gorgeous Itsy Bitsy decoupage papers. The hardest part is choosing which of the papers to use as there are so many different designs and they are all stunning!! I chose the Timeless Beauty decoupage papers. There are 4 A4 sheets in the pack with two designs and two sheets of each design. I also wanted to use the Little Birdie “Live Every Moment” Primed Chipboard and I thought Read more…
Memories- A Mixed Media Project
Hi Everyone, Saadia here I want to share with you a mixed media project today, mostly painted with Little Birdie Chalk Paints. The range of Chalk Paints are so beautiful, easy to use and are versatile. They come in so many lovely colors. Lets start: I cut a heart shaped MDF board with a knife and covered it with surgical gauze. You can also use cheesecloth instead of gauze, to create texture. Next, I applied Grainy Texture Paste with a palette knife, mainly at the edges. Little Read more…
‘Wisteria Garden’ Miniature Mixed Media Decor
Hello everyone Pooja here with a mixed media project for you today! I am going to share my new creation that I made with Little Birdie Embossing Texture Paste and Chalk Paints. These products are fun and exciting to work with as they give you wonderful options to create many things. Today I am sharing my miniature home decor “Wisteria Garden” Have a look… How I created these mini Wisteria with Embossing Texture Paste and more about the creation is here in a video tutorial Read more…