Mixed Media Canvas - Video Tutorial

Hello to all my crafty Friends....

This is Bela from India with yet another interesting  Design Team Post of Mixed Media canvas for Little Birdie Crafts. This time I hope everyone creates with me as we don't need any fancy or expensive embellishments for this canvas as I have used any junk lying around the house or you can get these things from any junk shop at throw away rates.

We all feel that we need lovely embellishments to make a lovely art piece... but what I feel is if you have an eye for the art and right balance of using the things and a very different and unique way of using the colors then the piece you make whether it is out of junk or fine elements will turn out to be a masterpiece.

If you see closely I have used some rusted nails, screws, hinges, nut bolts, and some waste hardware parts to make my main composition. then I added few numbers and come wooden cutouts to given this canvas a definition.

I hope you find this creatively inspiring and will try it out for urself.

For the complete video tutorial click the link below. don't forget to leave a comment if you like this video.

Love & Hugs

Bela

A Beautiful Box in Shabby Chic Style - Video Tutorial

Hello Friends,

This is Bela from India with a video tutorial for an altered box in shabby chic style. There are lot of people who are new to mixed media and I have seen that they are very apprehensive when it comes to gesso or sprays or paints. Basically any kind of wet material. So this time I have come up with something in which you don't have to use wet material and still get a beautiful piece of art. once you are comfortable with this kind of art you can slowly add textures and sprays to your project.  This project is inspired by Marta Lapkowska's card tutorials.

So here's a beautiful keepsake box which can be perfect for gifting which can be used as watch box, jewelry box or a kerchief box etc. Best part about this project is the beautiful Little Birdie flowers and the lovely papers from their store and u can create wonders. This pack of flowers were my favorite and I was holding on to them to create something extremely pretty.

With the papers, flowers, few fussy cut elements, laces, chipboard, and ribbons I have achieved this beautiful layering and the gorgeous pastels colors give it such an awesome look to the box.

So here's the link of the video tutorial  for the project.

Thank you for stopping by 

Love & Hugs

Bela

Hope & Love – Altered Mixed Media Bag Tutorial

Hello crafty Friends…. Greetings from me. This is Bela and today on Little Birdie Blog I am very excited to share with you a step by step tutorial of an altered bag. I always used to think why to alter a bag? what not do the same kind of layout on canvas? But when I got an amazing response to my previous altered bag I thought why not make one more. I got lovely compliments from friends on Facebook saying that they loved the bag and how it can be used to gifting without wrapping the gift. they also said the person who receives the gift will get 2 gifts at the same time. The bag and also what inside of the bag !!!

So here’s the step by step to yet another Bag tutorial which is so different from the previous one and yet it turned out amazingly beautiful. Also this will go to my swap partner of August as the theme of the swap was to make some artwork with whatever we have at home. I hope she likes it as much as I Loved making it.

Here I have taken a Domino’s Pizza takeaway bag and added some old book pages here and there for the vintage look. Then I added the texture with steampunk stencil with grainy texture paste which is my favorite from the store. Also added a long piece of off white card stock which I distressed with scissors and added some brown oxide ink for old look.

My next step was to use the MDF leftover from the steampunk cutting and cover the whole thing with black gesso.

I added the  layers of old book, steampunk texture, waste mdf , plain distressed cardstock , corrugated sheet and the vintage picture of a girl which was digitally photoshopped with script that matched totally with my old book script . I chose it as I felt it was so balanced yet very classy and coated with acrylic soft matte gel to protect it. I also added more stenciling  with the grainy texture paste on the right side of the picture as it was empty there. also added splatters of white and black gesso everywhere on the bag except the face.

I added the  layers of old book, steampunk texture, waste mdf , plain distressed cardstock , corrugated sheet and the vintage picture of a girl which was digitally photoshopped with script that matched totally with my old book script . I chose it as I felt it was so balanced yet very classy and coated with acrylic soft matte gel to protect it. I also added more stenciling  with the grainy texture paste on the right side of the picture as it was empty there. also added splatters of white and black gesso everywhere on the bag except the face.

My next step was to add some beautiful yet subtle flowers from little birdie as they not only gave a little feminine touch to the very hardcore mixed media but also made the girl look beautiful as if she had those flowers in her hair. I love that look.

Last but not the least I wanted to add a perfect sentiment for this lovely upcycled piece of art. So I added a perfect sentiment which says HOPE & LOVE MAKE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE. Isn’t it perfect ? So here’s My beautiful vintage bag which looks super classy with the perfect picture, perfect flowers and a perfect sentiment which really compliments the shabby background.

I really really really hope that you all give this tutorial a shot and send me your versions of it. Thank you for stopping by.

Love & Hugs

Bela