On Sunday 11 September we had the pleasure of presenting our first Mixed Media Workshop and, what a fabulous day we had with all our workshop lovelies. The day started with a some gorgeous kits and samples to show off the projects along with some other ideas to get the 'mojo' flowing.
Don't you love our Owl he was our inspiration for one of our projects!!!
We started working on our gorgeous Owl Notebooks - nothing like a bit of mixed media on a fabric covered notebook and such a practical project. We just loved that our Workshop Lovelies took to our original 'recipe' and added their own interpretation - the finished projects around our workshop room were just fab!
Check out the lovely Cassie McCumstie's beautiful interpretation of our mixed media owl notebook - well done Cassie we just love it to bits (Jessica (Lizzie's 9 yr old DD) is still asking when she can scraplift this for her own).
We started our notebooks with paint and modeling paste spread over some punchinello (sequin waste) to give a great effect... we added some stamps, rubons, woodgrain contact paper, twine, antique book paper, hessian, buttons and trim that made up our beautiful handmade owl (notice that calico). We finished off using some great alpha diecuts from Stampin Up to add a title - there really is nothing like raiding your stash and playing with paint and paste to start a workshop day!
We finished up with a gorgeous mixed media canvas to display a favourite photo and again we loved the way our Workshop Lovelies took up the 'freestyle' challenge... check out these lovely samples by Aliesha and Janelle - just gorgeous girls!Lots of painting, stamping, mod podge, dressmaking pattern paper, gorgeous Basic Grey papers, tags, muslin, rubons, antique dictionary paper, doilies, notepaper - the kits just had such a great eclectic mix.
The idea behind our first mixed media workshop was to get our Workshop Lovelies comfortable with the basic techniques and to adopt that freestyle approach that is such a refreshing part of this 'art scrapping'. Everyone seemed to enjoy all the new techniques and how they easily incorporated so much we already have in our scrapping stash.
Here are our lovely friends Jen Hall and Cassie McCumstie getting 'down and dirty' with their projects on the day.... thanks for attending girls, we love having you at all our Workshops!
And to finish up our day, Miss Lisa (aka Lisa Greedy) put together a beautiful bonus kit that incorporated all the new mixed media techniques to create this stunning scrapbook layout... nothing like a layout done on the lid of a Pizza Box.... told you we love to repurpose our kits.
Well we hope you have enjoyed our latest workshop 'wrap-up'. We will be back soon with updates on our final Workshop for 2011 - our "Hybrid Workshop" to be held on 30 October 2011.
Ooooh but wait there is more.... if you are interested in a Mixed Media kits @ $40 each (this will include our bonus layout kit - but excludes postage costs) from our Workshop - we have a couple of extras that we would be happy to sell, so please email us at Embellees@bigpond.com and we can sort something out for you. All kits come with full instructions and the majority of products to complete your projects (no stamps, rubons or modelling paste).
Be back soon.
Lizzie and Lisa
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