destination unknown-my creative journey

Hi everyone! I played with my beloved rust effect pastes from Finnabair again and created a dusty looking bookcover. I made a video for this which you found on my YouTube channel  here products i used: black gesso fabric lace modeling paste and stencil some metal elements and a wooden frame Finnabair pastes: "dark olive", "taupe rose" , "brown" and "dusty" I hope you like it, thanks for watching hugs, Ani

Hi everyone! It's a new month and a new chance to join our challenges on the mixed media academy challenge blog. theme this month is again 'anything goes' mixed media except cards/tags/atcs. All details  here . As my inspiration for the challenge i created this art journal page. For this i worked in an old book. Old books are great for art journaling, they are cheap and easy to get and i just love this vintage look of the old pages and skripts.  I used white gesso to prepare the pages, fussy cutted some stamped elements and sticked them with gel medium. For the colors i used Lindy's Stampgang Sprays. For extra texture and insterest i added some strings.  this dragon-fly is stamped too. I glued it only in the middle to make it look a little dimensional. Thanks for watching, i hope you like my page and i could inspire you to create something for our challenge. 

I had to leave my comfort zone again and tryed something very bright and colorful. For this i choosed some lovely magicals by Lindy's Stampgang and its so much fun to play with them. i used four different colors but it looks like much more, isn't it?  a layer of white gesso applied with a dry brush after the colors are completely dried i perfect to hightlight everything  if you like to see how i made it check out my YouTube channel  Ani.loves.Art

Hi everyone! Today starts the very first monthly challenge on the mixed media academy challenge blog. Everything mixed media goes. All details on the blog  here My inspiration for the first challenge is an altered clock. products i used: Amsterdam white gesso Finnabair white crackle paste  Finnabair art stones Pentart 3d balls dried roots Lindy's Stampgang macigals 13Arts paperflowers Finnabair sparks paint 'Unicorns hair'  mixed media academy challenge blog

I have not post here for a long time but i will change that ;-) I have some good news to share I'm happy to be part of the new mixed media academy challenge blog which starts at 1. February Follow our blog and get inspired for monthly challenges and win some goodies from our sponsors https://mixedmediaacademy.blogspot.com/?m=1

Hi everyone! I'm back with another mixed media creation. This time i altered a simple money box with lots of Finnabair products. I started as always with preparing the surface with white gesso. Then i applied modeling paste mixed with sand for some texture. After it was completely dry, i glued the embellishments with extra heavy gel medium and added some artstones. I covered everything with gesso again. For the color i used 'emerald green' metallique paint and 'violet gold' opal magic paint from Finnabair and hightlighted everything with 'white gold' wax.

hi everyone! I love tiny creations, i created tiny bottles, tiny art journal pages, tiny canvases.. now it was time to find another small surface to work with. I wanted to turn puzzle pieces into fridge magnets and I played with several elements around - small gears would be perfect as embellishments, so i had found the style for it. But what next? I spend some hours with experimenting and searching for a nice composition, and suddenly i found it... i thought about this one photo of my boyfriend, i wanted to use for a mixed media project. Yes, this would be great for a steampunk creation and i decided to create a tiny layout on a puzzle piece. I wrote the lyrics of one of our favorite songs on an old book page and glued it on the puzzle piece. I applied a coat of gel medium as a sealer. To give this project a little bit texture, i mixed finnabair artalchemy paint 'steampunk copper' with extra heavy gel medium and applied this paste through a stencil to my background. After ...

Hi everyone! I totaly forgot to fill my blog with my creations in the last time. If you want to see some more projects, visit my instagram profile ani.loves.art So here is my latest creation, i hope you like it. I found some old mugs and saucers and they inspired me to make a 'Alice in wonderland' theme creation. Products i used: Amsterdam - extra heavy gel medium -white gesso Pentart - 3D balls DekoArt - crackle paint 13 arts - dried roots, paper flowers Lindy's Stampgang - Starburst spray 'wild honeysuckle coral' Finnabair - art stones -white crackle paste -artalchemy paints 'soft satin' 'pink blush' -rust effect paste green' -artalchemy wax 'white gold' retrokraftshop - metal embellishments  First i glued mugs and saucers with extra heavy gel medium and covered them with white gesso. I applied three coats of gesso.  After the gel and the gesso was completely dry, i added some crackle paint and crackle paste ...

I saw so many beautiful projects with dreamcatcher in the last time, so i wanted to create one as well. I prepared the surface with black gesso and applied paste mixed with sand and 3d powder for a nice texture. Then i started building the composition with beautiful chipboards from snipart, flowers and many other embellishments,which i covered before with black gesso.  I used Lindy's 'sweet purple violet teal' as my backround color and then i played with some finnabair paints and waxes.  Products i used Amsterdam black gesso Renesans mica paste Pentart 3d powder Snipart chipboards 13 arts paper flowers Retrokraftshop metalembellishments finnabair mechanicals Lindystampgang 'Sweet violet purple teal' Finnabair 'plum preserve' metallique paint Finnabair 'unicorns hair' sparks paint Finnabair 'white gold' metallique wax Finnabair 'Vintage silk' opal magic wax

hi everyone! today i want to show you one of my latest projects. For this embroideryhoop i used cheesecloth and lace for the backround, which i covered with black gesso and painted it with finnabair rustpaste-brown,red and a touch of yellow. After the paste was dry, i glued some metalembellishments with gel medium and applied blue and green patinapaste with a dry brush. Thanks for watching  Products i used: Amsterdam black gesso Amsterdam extra heavy gel medium Finnabair rustpaste Finnabair patinapaste Metalembellishments from Retrokraftshop and Finnabair Bildunterschrift hinzufügen

hello everyone! I'm back with another creation- alterered birdhouse made from chipboards by snipart. It comes as individual parts , that you have to glue together. For this i used tacky glue, but you can use every craftglue.  The first step was as always to prepare the surface with gesso- i used black gesso. Then i mixed texture paste with sand and black gesso and applied it with a palette knife. To speed up the drying process, i used my heat tool. Then i added some chipboard pieces from snipart, which i prepared with black gesso, too. For my composition i choosed two old brushes, some paper roses and regular artstones by finnabair. I glued everything with heavy gel medium and covered them with gesso. After everything was dry, it was time for some color. I started with some Lindy's stampgang sprays and used again my heat tool for drying.  For my embellishments i used some finnabair artalchemy paints and deluted them a little bit with water. To hightlight everythin...

today i want to show you my vintage art journal page, which is inspired by Marta Lapkowskas Youtube videos,where she used 'no art tools'. So i decided to try it myself using coffee and tea as paints. I started with preparing the pages with gesso and started building a nice composition with some stripes and pieces of old paper, washitape and diecuts from tim holtz. Then i added some texturepaste through a stencil and some stampings. After drying i decided to add some lace and brads and chipboard pieces. for the color i used strong coffee and cherry tea, which gives a beautiful red-purple shade on the paper for the chipboards i used a vintage blue-copper embossing powder

Hi everyone! Today i want to show you my latest altered box. This time i used an flat metal pencil box. As always i started with preparing the surface with black gesso. Then i added some texturepaste through two different stencils. For my composition i choosed different embellishments from retrokraftshop, finnabair and some items from my stash . It took a while to place them the way i liked it. After it was done, i covered everything with black gesso and then i applied gently some artalchemy waxes and paints with a dry brush. For this i started with the darkest color and ended with the lightest. thanks for watching

today i want to show you another creation i made last week. For this project i used cracklepaste and some lace for the backround, different embellishments, flowers, dried roots and art stones. For the color i used some Lindy's sprays and artalchemy paints. To highlight everything i used white gesso and inkagold. Thanks for watching

It was time for me again to create a box and because i love music so much, i wanted to combine both. So i grabbed an old cassette and old earphones and tried to use them as embellishments. first i prepared the surface with black gesso and applied black texturepaste through a stencil. To speed up the process i used my heat tool. To add more texture to my backround i glued some chipboard pieces and started building the composition with a half broken cassette and the tapes, the earphones and a face that i made using a silicone mould and casting material. I glued my embellishments with heavy gel medium and after drying, i covered everything again with black gesso. For the color i used finnabair artalchemy wax 'iron brush'.  Thanks for watching, i hope you like it 

I challenged myself to create something with as few materials as possible. So i decided to use only one kind of embellishments and only one kind of texture. I prepared a small canvas with white gesso and started building a nice composition with some keyholes made from a silicon mould and some art stones. I glued them with heavy gel medium and covered the composition with white gesso. For the color i used some Lindy's sprays and after drying, i added a little bit nuvo mousse to hightlight everything. I hope you like it

I'm a huge fan of Finnabair and i love her mixed media collages, and it was time to give this a try. I printed a picture of me on photo paper and glued it with gel medium on a canvas in size of 18x24cm. As the first step i used fixative spray to protect the picture and black gesso to prepare the rest of the canvas. Then i started to build my composition with metal embellishments, chipboardpieces and other small embellishments. After i glued all pieces with gel medium, i covered them with black gesso. As last step i added some artalchemy paints and white gesso to hightlight everything. products i used: Amsterdam black gesso Amsterdam extra heavy gel medium metal embellishments from Retrokraftshop chipboards from Snipart Finnabair artalchemy paints: 'deep water', 'opal magic pink blue', 'opal magic aqua rose' 'white pearl' Amsterdam white gesso 

inspired by mother nature, i created this heart, which i found at the 13arts shop. first, i prepared the surface with white gesso and applied a thick layer of crackle paste. I let it dry natural for a few hours and started building the backround with some chipboardpieces and dried moss.  then i placed the face and added small flowers and art stones. As glue i used heavy gel medium. Then i covered everything with white gesso.  For the color i used some 13arts sprays and artalchemy waxes by Finnabair. To highlight the texture i used again white gesso. Thanks for watching 

i love music, i love art, and i love to combine both. This time i decided to use an old cd as my surface. I hope you like it I used black gesso to prepare the cd and the embellishments. I started with applying texture paste through a stencil and wrapped the cd with some strings and a small linking chain. After building my composition, i covered everything with black gesso and started to add some artalchemy paints from Finnabair gently with a soft brush, for this project i used 'emerald green' 'rusty red' 'steampunk copper' and to highlight it here and there, i used a little bit 'brass paste' by the finnabair patina set. Thanks for watching

Today i want to show you one of my latest projects. I had to leave my comfort zone again and tried to make another mixed media layout. And this time it worked pretty well, so i really like the result, i hope you like it, too. for this layout i used papers from the hazydays collection by 7 dots Studio. For the background i used some lindy's magicals, 13arts sprays and some stamps. As you can see, i used dried roots again, some metal embellishments, chipboardpieces and i added some mika flakes and microbeads. And at the end i decided to apply finnabairs rust and patinapaste here and there.