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Brenda Brown
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Loving all forms of artsy craft, particularly mixed media, collage and stamping.
Loving all forms of artsy craft, particularly mixed media, collage and stamping.

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Blue and green - mixed media journal cover
I'm still making Eileen Hull midori size journals and this time I thought I'd create one for art/ mixed media techniques. As the midori style journal can take three or more signature booklets I thought I would begin by creating one using my DecoArt paints a...

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Technique Tuesday - Coarse Stucco - DecoArt
I've called this Coarse Stucco and there are two with slight variations of textures here. I have also included a technique called monoprinting to create layers. I'll come back to this in more detail another time. Apply texture sand paste to substrate with a...

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DecoArt Mixed Media Design Team project - Vintage Collage Tag
Welcome everyone to one of my samples for the DecoArt Mixed Media Design Team blog which was showed over there in April. I had been swapping a few bits recently and with one of my blogging friends and she very kindly sent me one of the new Etcetera tags, an...

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Technique Tuesday - Pitted Glaze - DecoArt
TWO Here's a great technique that I've seen used several times in different ways and with different products so I thought I would share it today as it's a technique I love to use when I want a rusted and pitted effect. Paint the substrate by applying a laye...

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Craft Stamper project
Just catching up with projects that haven't been posted and I've realised that I've missed out several of my Craft Stamper makes so this is one that was published last month that I called 'Creativity Takes Courage' and I used a THAT'S CRAFTY shrine that the...

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Things with wings #2
This is my second contribution to the Country View Challenges Design Team inspiration posts for this months challenge - Things With Wings . The background is one I made earlier in the week and posted up for my first Technique Tuesday post and I'm actually u...

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Technique Tuesday - Sponged stenciling - DecoArt media
ONE I'm a technique addict and so many that I have used over the years are buried within projects and blog posts and often get lost and even forgotten so I am starting a series where I can label all my techniques together so that not only I but you also can...

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All Squared Up
It's a new challenge at AVJ today and the lovely Tracy has chosen - 'All Squared Up' as the theme to get our teeth into. I have to admit to sitting thinking about this one for quite a while, I love all sorts of shape and form yet did you realise that there ...

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Altered key hook
I've altered a little house shape board with a hook for hanging keys. It started life being plain white and is now more grungy. I painted layers of relic, vintage and lace chalky finish paints and weathered wood crackle medium between the last two layers. T...

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Things with wings - Fairy Girls
It's the 1st of July and time for another challenge over at Country View Challenges . The theme is 'Things with Wings' and as I am in a very vintage mode at the moment I decided to use the paper dolls and make my own wings to add to these two cute girls. Wi...
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