Make A Wish Mixed Media

 I love mixed media art projects. This one is fun and easy enough for any age. And, while you're at it, you're recycling paper from your shredder!

I started by adding 3 colors of Dixie Belle Paint to a 12" x 12" canvas. I used the colors Mermaid Tail, Sea Glass, & Haint Blue.

I used an old hotel key card to spread the paint around on the canvas. Don't overwork it or you'll just mix the colors together & get one color.

While the canvas was still wet, I added the color, Cobalt, to deepen the color of the edges of the canvas.

Again, I used a key card to spread the color onto the canvas.

I pressed bubble wrap onto the Cobalt paint while it was still wet. This will transfer paint onto the bubble to then press on other areas of the canvas to create texture.

I pressed the bubble wrap over the canvas until I had the amount of texture I wanted, being careful not to cover the entire canvas. This part is fun, so it's easy to get carried away!

I cut different lengths of twine & painted them with the color, Evergreen. I placed them on the canvas to create stems. I let the wet paint act as the glue to hold them in place.

I filled a sandwich bag with paper from my shredder then added a little ModPodge & water to the bag. I sealed the bag then massaged the bag until the paper was coated with the ModPodge mixture. Then I formed the paper into round shapes to represent dandelions.

I placed the round shapes onto the top of each twine stem. The ModPodge on the paper is enough to glue the "flower" onto the canvas.

I printed out "Make a wish" using my laser printer. I cut it out then added Dixie Belle's Van Dyke Glaze to the edges. I applied the glaze with a damp rag putting it heavy along the edges, then lightly adding more to the rest of the paper. Please note: If you use an ink jet printer, your ink will bleed when it gets wet. 

I glued the paper onto the canvas using the ModPodge.

Make A Wish!!!

I'm wishing you all a beautiful & creative day!

Linking To:

Ginger Snap Crafts, Chic On a Shoestring,  Simply Sweet Home, The Cottage Market,  Funky Junk Interiors, The Dedicated House,  Sugar Bee Crafts, Flour Me With Love,  Domestically Speaking,  The Answer Is Chocolate, Skip To My Lou, The Thrifty Home, Flutter Buster, The Foley Fam,  Finding Silver Pennies, Our Hopeful Home, My Thrift Store Addiction, The Painted Hinge, Yesterday On Tuesday, Confessions Of A Plate Addict, My Uncommon Slice Of Suburbia, Dabbling And Decorating, Creatively Beth, My Hubbard Home

Don't Eat The Gumballs

This adorable door hanger looks like a sweet treat to greet your guests, but don't eat the gumballs!

The base material for the door hanger is a wooden cutout from Signopoly. It even has grooves to define the different areas of the gumball machine.

I used the color, Caviar, from the Dixie Belle Paint Company to paint the feet of the gumball machine.

I painted the "glass" globe with the color, Fluff, & painted the rest of the machine with Honky Tonk Red.

I used Dixie Belle's Gemstone Mousse in the color Diamond for the candy chute & knob to make it look like metal.

I used Dixie Belle's black Best Dang Wax to define the details.

I glued on colorful pompoms, using tacky glue, to represent the gumballs. So cute, but not tasty! 

We've all heard of things looking too pretty to eat, and that is literally true for this!

Linking To:

Ginger Snap Crafts, Chic On a Shoestring,  Simply Sweet Home, The Cottage Market,  Funky Junk Interiors, The Dedicated House,  Sugar Bee Crafts, Flour Me With Love,  Domestically Speaking,  The Answer Is Chocolate, Skip To My Lou, The Thrifty Home, Flutter Buster, The Foley Fam,  Finding Silver Pennies, Our Hopeful Home, My Thrift Store Addiction, The Painted Hinge, Yesterday On Tuesday, Confessions Of A Plate Addict, My Uncommon Slice Of Suburbia, Dabbling And Decorating, Creatively Beth, My Hubbard Home