Hi Everyone, Saadia here Little Birdie Crafts has recently launched beautiful new stencil designs and great art and mixed media journals. I thought I should share with you some of the very basic stenciling techniques, these will be useful to those who are new to stencils. I used only one design of stencil in almost all of the techniques. Stencils and stenciling: The stencil is usually a thin sheet of material, such as paper, plastic, wood or metal, with numbers, alphabets or a design cut Read more…
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Life is Beautiful -A Mixed Media Layout
Hi Everyone… Saadia here, Today, I want to share with you a mixed media layout. Little Birdie Crafts has recently launched new designs of flowers. They are very beautiful and perfect for mixed media layouts, scrapbooks, canvas, cards and home decor projects. Lets start: I used an old 10x 12 inches canvas. It had old paint and papers on it. I covered it with white gesso. Little Birdie gesso is my new favourite. It is stark white and primes the surface beautifully even with a single coat. Read more…
This Too Shall Pass- A Mixed Media Canvas
Hello everyone, This is Mukta here! Today I have a mixed media canvas tutorial for you all using Little Birdie’s newly launched Chalk Paints. The 10 happy and fun shades in the new range are really cool!! These matte chalk paints are fast drying, give good coverage and are perfect for any kind of surface……which makes them perfect for mixed media projects, home decor or even layouts. Before, I start with today project, I would like to dedicate this canvas to my father who is right now Read more…
Memories- A Mixed Media Project
Hi Everyone, Saadia here I want to share with you a mixed media project today, mostly painted with Little Birdie Chalk Paints. The range of Chalk Paints are so beautiful, easy to use and are versatile. They come in so many lovely colors. Lets start: I cut a heart shaped MDF board with a knife and covered it with surgical gauze. You can also use cheesecloth instead of gauze, to create texture. Next, I applied Grainy Texture Paste with a palette knife, mainly at the edges. Little Read more…
Dream-A Mixed Media Project
Hi Everyone, Saadia here, I want to share with you a mixed media project today. I wanted to make a dream catcher or a wreath with Little Birdie’s beautiful flowers but couldn’t decide. So I ended up with a dream catcher, wreath hybrid! I hope you like it. Lets start: To begin with, I applied Little Birdie Fiber Paste with a palette knife to a MDF board. This Fiber Paste gives a very beautiful texture and 3D dimension to the project. Its easy to use and spreads well. It can be tinted Read more…
A Mixed Media Project with Layered Textures
Hi Everyone, Saadia here! Today, I want to share with you a mixed media project. I hope you like it. Lets start: I took a 6x 10 inches MDF board and covered it with cheese cloth using Little Birdie Soft Gel Medium. After that, I mixed Texture Sand with Mixed Media 2 in 1 paste and randomly applied to the MDF board with a palette knife. Texture Sand is great for adding grainy texture to projects. It can be mixed with Gesso, Mixed Media Paste , Gel mediums or any other Read more…
The Girl in the Frame- Mixed Media Layout
Hello everyone! Lisa here with my next creation for Itsy Bitsy. Used lots of lovely Itsy Bitsy mixed media products on this project to add lots of different textures. This is a 12 x 12 inch piece what I am calling ‘The Girl in the Frame’. I started with ripping a piece of 12 inch Textured White Premium Cardstock in to strips. I then glued the strips to the centre of a 12 inch square piece of grey board with Craft Glue. I continually kept on overlaying Read more…
Heart and Soul- A Mixed Media Layout
Hi Everyone, Saadia here I want to share with you a mixed media layout today. Little Birdie flowers are so beautiful and versatile. These can be used on scrapbooks, layouts, canvas, cards, home decoration items. When I saw Little Birdie’s blue and white flowers in the kit , I knew I wanted to make a layout. I don’t make layouts often. But this time, I couldn’t resist myself! I hope you like it. Lets start : I used a 12x 12 inches canvas panel for the layout. Glued book papers Read more…
Review : Little Birdie Mixed Media Paste 2-in-1 Gesso and Modelling Paste
Hi Friends, This is Suman here today with a review of Little Birdie’s newly launched Mixed Media Paste ……a unique 2-in-1 Gesso and Modelling paste which is a must have product for all Mixed media artists. The heavy body paste can be used straight from the jar as a texture paste/modelling paste and as Gesso to prepare your surface after diluting with water. The Mixed media paste is available presently in two variants- White and Slate. You can use this paste to prepare the ground for Read more…