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Behind the Art! A new Mixed Media Tutorial!

wow! it's been a while since i have done a video tutorial! Since January I think!! Crazy!

First off, BEFORE I start in on that.. I TRULY HAVE TO SAY THANK YOU!!!! for the HUGE HUGE HUGE response and support of my products we debuted last week in the Scarlet LIme Store! HOLY COW!! It was INSANE CRAZY! I mean CRAZY.. we sold out of products 4 different times during the weekend and I had to call pink Paislee and make SURE we could get more! I kept ordering a ton thinking it would be FOR SURE enough to not only get me through the sale but for months. and then 6 hours later I would get an email from one of you.. that stuff was out of stock again! I was like.. what? are you sure? I just entered more! I felt bad. sorry it was so crazy for you guys!! Hope you all got what you wanted by the end of the weekend! 

here is a picture that ben took of the orders he printed Friday morning.. not even 24 hours after the sale started.. 

 

  I don't think he quite knew I was doing such a big sale in the store. (keep in mind he is the one who runs the store, prints order, pulls them, ships them. )..

I kinda  sorta maybe.. mentioned to him earlier in the week I was going to maybe do a sale.. I think I did. I was pretty sure I said maybe something about it. :) :) :) But I am guessing maybe he didn't hear it. lol.

so he sent me that picture friday before he left work and said something like " um.. would you mind explaining this please?"

I was like... what? I'm pretty sure I told you I was going to do a big sale? Lol. oh I just love him. He's been working night and day since then to just even print, sort and combine the rest of the orders that came in the rest of the weekend! Yesterday we shipped kit club stuff and today we are shipping all the free kits that went to people who signed up for all three classes!  So they will start filling those orders tomorrow. PLEASE be super patient. This is going to take us at LEAST 10-14 days working non stop night & day to get them all out. So please just know it's coming. :)

Seriously Crazy. You guys. YOU ROCK! I owe you so much!! I hope you know how grateful I am to all of you! Just so blessed for the support you give my family and ME! Someday I hope I get to hug each and everyone one of you!! (getting tear-eyed as we speak).

OKAY! onto The tutorial!! xox

So last week I spent an afternoon at the studio, creating projects with the February Mixed Media kit we offer in my online website www.scarletlime.com . Its part of the monthly kit club (and when we have some left we list them in our store). 

SOME months, when I have time and energy, I like to have fun and play with the kits too and when I do i try and do a video with them, so you can see what I do with the products in the kits.

THIS particular month (february's kit) I KNEW right away I wanted to do a video because I had a certain vision on mind for those products lol.  Most of the products we include are just fun mixed media products you can include in ANY of your mixed media stuff you create. Whether its on canvas, or art journaling, or whatever. Those products are designed for you to use in what you are creating. But For this kit, I wanted to really show you what I used them for and why I included them. :)

SO here is the kit!



As you can see its FULL of alphabets and words. Kinda different huh? I mean totally use-able on canvasses and art journals.. all the time. You always need words and titles on them, so these work great. BUT i wanted to show you some fun and different ways you use them. you might not think about!

So I came up with these (and more!)

Im not going to write step by step what I did, hence the video lol (it explains it all)

but here are come upclose shots of the projects I made using contents from this kit!
(note the videos are at the end)

 

So thats it! Actually there are a couple of more projects I didn't take pictures of.. just too much!

AND guess what else? I try to keep my videos under 30 mins.. so they aren't too boring to watch lol But I did SO many different projects with this kit, it ended up being an hour! even with me on super fast mode (you can tell I am rushing through each one to give you AS MANY Ideas as possible! LOL).

So make sure you watch BOTH Part one and PART TWO!! 

again hope you enjoy!!

xoxo

 

PART ONE

 

Part Two

 

xoxox

December Mixed Media kit fun!

well hello hello from warm and cozy Mexico! I hope everyone is doing well.. hAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Here is to a WONDERFUL 2013!!! 

I have a fun treat today.. A video i did using the Scarlet Lime Mixed Media kit for December! Super excited about this kit because  I included some funky stuff and REALLY wanted to teach you some new things I recently discovered when trying to make my own "clay" look.

This month's kit included a fun configuration box from Tim Holtz, as well as lots of other goodies.. but I wanted to use it in a non conventional sort of way. Most of what you see if also very "distressed".. and I wanted to create something fun and bright with it!  So here we go!

I wanted to make sure that EVERY part of the pieces in the kit were altered in some way of another.. just not "adhered" onto the "canvas". I really wanted EVERy piece to be it's own artsy point of interest.

The clips are from Maya road and were originally grey wire. of course I painted them.. added a book paper behind them and then shaded it and doodles on it.

 

Included some fun embellishments that we altered as well. Painted, stitched, doodled

 

 

 

Even the key was painted and doodled on. really wanted to keep this entire thing BRIGHT! But the best part of it all? Making your own "clay" out of tin foil and book paper!

 

So.. here is the 30 min video that shows you the entire process from start to finish! Hope you enjoy!! can't WAIT to see what you do with the kit! AND YES.. if you are wondering.. WE DO have these kits left in our store! Check out our store www.scarletlime.com  the store part! We have them in the mixed media kit section!

Scarlet Lime STORE

Off to go paint some more with Ben and Jesse Reno! xoxox

 

Behind the Art video.. October MM project!

Hey friends! how was your Halloween? Ours was full of fun and business! Holy cow I filmed all day yesterday for the upcoming Christmas workshop (gonna show you sneak peeks on monday!)

and then trick or treating.. and then went to the warehouse and worked on the studio until 4 AM THIS MORNING!! (WHICh i A MOVING IN NEXT WEEK!!)

wahoo! I will post pics and a video!)  Ben and I both did! By the time we were done.. we were so hungry we decided to go to breakfast at Shari's.. had some good old fashioned pancakes and hasbrowns and walked in the door around 6:00 AM when our kids were just starting to wake up to get ready for school. So we went back to bed for a few hours.. yea.. Im a walking zombie right now! lol

Anyhow.. sorry for not getting this October video posted in OCTOBER.. holy cow.. that whole video editing thing is kicking my butt! I normally use my Imovie program to edit and it was just NOT working and so I finally decided to use my PC and downloaded Sony Vegas Platinum program. While it's pretty cool program.. it was DEFINITLY not straight forward like imovie is.. it took me hours watching youtube videos from other people.. on how to just add music, and pictures, and cross fades, and fast forward. holy cow you would have thought I had never edited videos before! I have been doing it for 2 years.. and it took me forever to figure it out. But now I know and now it should go smoother. Luckily I have hired my brother VK, to help me edit all my upcoming videos for my workshops.. that will help out a ton (since we always do like 15-20 videos per workshop! at least!!)

Okay... so onto today's video! before I start.. wanted to say first off.. THANK YOU for your freaking awesome support of my etsy Store! And an update on the store.. we just got in yesterday all the new Carson products (another manufacturer I worked with).. and So I have added those to the store.. and they were just starting to pull orders at the warehouse from last thursday and friday's orders and I said. wait! give it a day or two.. because I was thinking some of you may want to purchase some of these new things.. and this way I can combine shipping for you and refund some of the shipping and ship them together! So if you want to get some of the things below. I am going to wait to ship orders until Monday of next week.. and if you purchase anything else during that time.. I will ship it all together and refund overpayment of shipping! Just fyi.. okay.. so I have to show you what is new!!!

The absolute favorite thing.. (okay tied with the last thing I am showing you).. are the sketchbook journals! They are about 6"x8" in size.. and have brown kraft paper inside.. oh so in love!

Gorgous new Mugs.. (there are actually only four new mug styles.. but this pictures shows the mugs pretty much all the way around. Carsons did a great job with these! two are girls and two are different scenes (the last mug on the right has a girl on it.. but the picture doesn't show it)

 

 I love shapes of these mugs and that they have so much going on.. but the best part is the little surprise inside..

 

 

 

Dinner Plates! ( or you can use them for cookies, cupcakes, to hold supplies on.. anything really!

Wall plates and platters (again the wall plates could totally be fun to put cookies on, or your mug.. don't have to hang them on the wall.. USE them! lol)

And the my most FAVORITE thing from their line.. (okay.. this and the journals are pretty close..)

the She Art  resin figurines!  They are so cute and have demensional pieces all over them. The words, the flowers, butterflies.. they all are demensional pieces. These can hang on a wall, or they free stand. Just love em!

SO that's fun!  I wasn't able to list the art bags! They came in ( my own company was priting those) but they only printed side?? lol.. I was like.. um no.. these aren't going to work. So sending them back to have the other side printed. AND then guess what! So many of you have asked.. I ordered IPhones cases for the Iphone 5! So those are coming soon too!  We sold out of a lot of things.. Magnets, mugs, mouse pads, frames.. a lot of things.. so those are on re-order now too.

So THANK you friends for your support! oh and since these products just came in.. I am extending the 10% off sale!  the coupon is SHE12  use it at checkout! HEre is the link to the Etsy Store!

okay.. onto the video for October!!

I had envisioned in my mind this fun Fall but bright and bold flower pieces.. I know I love flowers pieces and do them a lot.. but I couldn't get this one out of my head.. (don't worry next month it's NOT flowers.. well and last month wasn't either? so we are doing okay! lol)

Anyhow.. Here is what I came up with..

this kit included fun banner from Glitz, washi tape from glitz (the chevron I used on the stems) and these awesome fun kraft flowers too (which by the way could totally be used as stencils!!) and so much more! I show in the video what is included!

So that's it! Super fun! The canvas isn't included.. it's a 6"x12" deep edge.. but you can use just about anything!

So anyhow.. onto the video! Thanks friends again.. for all you do and ALL your birthday wishes!!!!! truly i freaking LOVE YOU ALL!!! xoxoxox

Happy Thursday!

 

 

Behind the Art Video: August Mixed Media kit

Howdy Friends! Happy Monday!!! 

my kids are back in school?  They started last thursday.. and it's been a long time since I had a quiet monday! All to myself! Getting so much done.. it's crazy! My NEWEST online class starts tomorrow!! our Artsy Bangles class! COME JOIN ME if you haven't signed up yet! HERE is the info! 

Today I wanted to post the newest Behind the Art Video.. using the August 2012 Mixed Media kit!!

while you can no longer sign up for an august subscription (as subs are closed for august) you can purchase this kit in our mixed media store  HERE.. and if you want, email me and we can get you on the list to start a sub for September!  email melanie at customerservice@scarletlime.com to get on the sub list for September. 

okay.. so this month I had some fun crazy ideas I wanted to do.. really whimsical and different.. I had hearts on the brain.. but didn't want something that everyone always sees.. so this is what I came up with..

 

and NO the canvas isn't upside down.. they are bleeding "heart" flowers.. something kinda fun and different! They were taken from an idea I had recently in one of my art journals..

as you an see on my canvas version I added leaves to the stems.. not sure I like that or not.. but it works :) I also added butterflies to the canvas version. 

 

so kind whimsical and fun.. perfect end for summer right? 

used a lot of texture on this canvas with paints and tissue paper.. so I hope you enjoy it!
See you back here wednesday when i talk about the new fall classes!! wahoo!

Happy Monday!  

  

when it rains it pours... and then there is a rainbow

confused yet at what this post is about? lol.. i know.. im a dork. so this last weekend we had are big huge campbell family reunion.. my aunts and uncles, cousins, second cousins.. and even some third.. and it was a BLAST.. i am sad to report I only made it to round two of the Canasta tournament (last year my partner and I won it).. but that's okay. we still had fun!  Well sunday night about 3 am in the morning.. my daughter calls us from her cell phone (she's 12 lol) letting us know that she was downstairs and had just thrown up. My husband rolls over to tell me and then he jumps up and runs to the bathroom himself. I was like great. What have we hear. Well by noon yesterday all but two of my kids were sick throwing up, including me and Ben.. AND i texted my brothers and sisters to warn them that we were sick and soon the replies started coming in that they too had sick kids and they were also sick. Then texts saying aunts and uncles were sick and cousins lol..  at first we thought it was food poising.. but  a few went to the doctor and no. It is a highly contagious stomach flu. Today we all feel a little better but still dealt with kids throwing up all night long. Today I just feel week.. but not sick anymore. I am just glad this happened before thursday.. as our kids start school thursday!

So that is the rain.. now for the rainbow :)..

Last week I mentioned that Junelle had started doing projects using our main kit.. and showed you her project and video for the July kit.. and THIS week we are lucky enough to get to see what she does with the June kit!

As you might remember she is doing an art journal page using the main kits (from my Scarlet Lime Store)  each month ... here is what she did for june.

I love this girl and how she is got her bags packed and ready to go.. awesome.

 

 

 So fun.. thank you Junelle!!! Here is the video!

 

 

Junelle simply rocks.. 

and SPEAKING of Junelle and workshop classes.. my fall line up of classes will be available for signup starting NEXT week.. I have three we are offering...originally I had planned on doing a full holiday workshop.. including halloween, fall , christmas and winter.. but have decided to divide the class up.. and do the halloween and fall workshop in september and make it just a fun five day workshop.. with whimsical halloween and fall mixed media art projects (including two awesome guest artist who will be also doing some cool projects as well).. and then offering a bigger 2 week workshop for the Christmas/Winter one in November.. since it covers so many more subjects.. 

then of course we have Junelles NEW workshop that starts in October.. and then to end the year we will have another 12 Artsy Ornaments of Christmas again this year! With 12 different teachers, 12 different projects for the holidays! So it will be a super fun fall and winter filled with new classes and new inspiration! can't wait! So watch for then news on all of those next week. I am going to be offering a package deal where if you sign up for all three or even two.. there will be discounts given.

anyhow.. okay.. i better head back to bed. Feeling pretty yuck lol.. and need to get better.. my kids need school clothes and school supplies and school starts the day after tomorrow.. so I HAVE to get feeling better so I can go tomorrow!
Happy Tuesday! stay well!!!

creative little souls.. family time and pinterest.. the perfect match.

Hey friends! Happy Wednesday!! Such a beautiful week this week.. really soaking in the fun with the family and enjoying summer like nothing else. My family and HUGE extended family on my dad's side are all coming this weekend for a big Campbell Family reunion! This is my most favorite reunion. My dad had 12 brothers and sisters and most of them had large families as did he and my mom (I have 6 siblings) and so those reunions are just HUGE and so fun. Oddly enough.. though there are hundreds of us.. we are all really close? isn't that so weird? I love it. Family is so important to me.

Anyhow.. Monday we found ourselves at the new/old house again.. (i swear it's a nightly thing now.. just going over to see ben and braden who are always there working away on the house or shipping for Scarlet Lime... and then hanging out on a blanket, under the trees.. talking, laughing, creating something, looking on pinterest.. shooting bow and arrows, throwing the football. Something.)  but monday night we found oursevles there having "family  night".. FHE as we call it.. and after a wonderful lesson on being honest by Preston.. we decided to get a little artsy and have some fun. One of the goals I set for myself in the Living Canvas workshop, to create balance in my life was to do some kind of art project as a family at least once a month (I have actually been doing it twice a month so far). Ben and Braden (who is my oldest, 16 and too cool for just about everything).. also participate. I have to say.. Seriously that class has helped make my life SO much more organized and meaningful Reminding me what matters most (this class is currently closed but opens again next month!)

Anyhow... I am a lover of Pinterest as of late.. and saw this idea Elsie from a Beautiful Mess took a mug from the dollar store and transformed it with sharpie markers. Then you are to bake them for 30 mins at 350 degrees (though I saw on another site it was 150 Degrees..) but  This the example I saw here.. SO if I would have taken the time to read the post.. instead of just look at the picture, I would have KNOWN that they are not dishwasher safe.. but I didn't.. so here is my experience with it.

 

 

So i went to the dollar store and grabbed my buckets of sharpies and we went to town.

 

 

 

The kid really had fun with it.. including ben...

 I wanted to make a set of mugs for my new art studio..so when friends come to play and get messy.. they also have something fun and inspirational to drink out of.. so i took my doodling and went to town as well..

 

 I even wrote a little note in the bottom of them

 

 

 

We had a TON of fun just being creative, sitting on blankets outside on the lawn.. kids truly had a blast.

SO then was the real test. I baked them for 30 mins at 350 degrees. I actually  let them all cool in the oven for another hour.. so I could take them out one by one and make sure they wouldn't smear or brake when I was taking them out. (yeah I am pretty clumsy..lol)

  Then I  stuck them in the dishwasher.

and well..

nope! lol.. it wasn't quite as permanent as I had hoped. While some of the designs still stayed on them, you could see  alot some coming off and since then we have washed them a few more times (because we have been using them) and they have continued to come off.

So then I decided to go BACK to the post and read a little more.. and she did end up saying she tried handwashing and even scrubbing with a sponge and it held up just fine.. however when she put them in the dishwasher it came right off.

SO i learned two things from this..

One: Always READ the research you are doing.. dont' just look at the pretty pictures lol.. and two: pinterest pretty much rocks. :)

I know you can probably also use porcelain pens on the mugs as well. DecoArt makes some that are permanent. I am going to try next time as well too. so we will keep you posted!

Anyhow.. just wanted to share with you!

Next week I want to do THIS fun little project by Chrissie Grace,  I saw on pinterest as well.. a few different version..

 

 but just rocks, paints and probably more sharpies (or even Faber Castell pens!) I loved her idea that she put them on her front table and when people came to visit, she would ask them to take one with them. I also love the idea of randomly leaving them on peoples doorsteps.. as a little bit of love.  Great project for the kids on both accounts.. creating and sharing.

So I will keep you posted on what happens! I have started to pin a ton of project that I "Must create".. so when I do.. whether for family night or just for myself.. I will keep you posted on how it goes!

Have a wonderful wednesday!

Very special treat.. from a very talented girl...

so as most of you know (i feel like I start out 90% of my blog posts that way.. lol).. but as most of you know I have a mixed media kit we do at Scarlet Lime (just posted the video to it the week before last).. and each month I do a video using that kit and post it here on my blog.

WELL besides our mixed media kit.. we ALSO have our main kit.. which in the past has been traditionally a scrapbooking kit. We had a wonderful design team who did layouts with that kit each month.. and had a blog that they posted on as well. Well as some of you might have noticed that we no longer have been doing scrapbook layouts or doing the Scarlet Lime blog.. and that has been because we have been slowly transitioning our Scarlet Lime Website to be mainly just mixed media and not scrapbooking related.  So while there are some of you that still purchase the main kit for scrapbooking.. I know a huge majority of you purchase it for use with mixed media.

So.. I decided to ask my very dear and very talented friend.. Junelle Jacobson if she wouldn't mind doing a mixed media project each month using our MAIN kit.. and she so wonderfully agreed! I don't even have to ask if if you know who Junelles is..

because most if not all of you already know this extremely talented, funny and amazing girl.. but if you don't know.. She is an amazing mixed media artist, she has an awesome blog where she shares her art

 

and her life on the farm and her love for sheep

 AND she also has done an online class with me called the Art of Wild Abandonment (which is still available to take ANYTIME.. HERE  and hands down one of the best class on art journals and sketching every)..

 She is SOON going to be doing another class with me again.. In October.. and we will be announcing that in the next coming weeks!  But truly she is just one talented girl.

So if you get the mixed media kit you know mainly I do project on canvas with that kit.. so I asked her to do some fun stuff with the main kit both in art journals and other things besides canvas. While it officially starts with our August kit.. she is amazing and decided to do videos and projects with our july and june kit too! She simply rocks. so today I am posting the video and project she did using the July Main kit.. Next week the June main kit and the week after will be posting her project with the August kit!

so if you don't remember.. this was our july kit.. (which is still available HERE)

 

Fun and funky and bright for summer!

and her is a sneak peek of what she made..

I adore Junelle's whimsical style!

So I am excited moving forward to have her do a video project for me (and for YOU) each month using the main kit! Even if you don't get this kit each month.. it's just pure awesome inspiration..

happy monday!  enjoy!

(p.s. the darn spell check is StILL not working on tyepad.. so I scanned this post for errors.. but since I didn't really enjoy spelling or english.. well.. yea that means I am sure I missed something.. sorry lol )

 

 

Behind the Art: July Mixed Media kit project

first off.. to all you wonderful people.. thank you for the kind words of support and encouragement you left on tuesdays blog post! and the private emails that came in as well. I am VERy blessed to call you all friends. THANK YOU.. truly from my heart.

 

this month's mixed media kit.. (for those of you that subscribe to it.. or purchase it out of our store HERE)...

probably got it and were like.. what the HECK are we going to create with this? Lol..

well i recently as of late.. have become a HUGe fan of Pinterest.. and could spend hours (okay do spend hours) on there just getting ideas upon ideas that I want to do with my kids, for myself, for my art studio.. new fun things to try.. you name it. Speaking of which.. I am writing about all of that in another blog post for next week.

BUT one thing I saw.. was this awesome post from A beautiful Mess's.. taking wood or canvas using letter stickers as masks for creating a word saying canvas. I ALSO was reading on my dear friends blog the other day.. Alisa Burke and came across THIS post about using scribble dimensional paint and then painting over it and making it look as though it has this beautiful embossed old world look to it. Here is a picture of what she did..

 

 

 

She is ONE creative soul that girl..

So I thought how fun it would be to take BOTH ideas and create a monthly kit for it and do both of those techniques.. mixed with a little artsy messy stuff and doodling.. and this is what I came up with..

 

 

 

It's a little different than what we usually make.. but seriously fun and I did learn a few tips on the way.. so make sure to watch the video!! I almost want to make another one and this time do alot more with the puffy paint.. More like what Alisa did.. oh so cute.. so you might see another one later with even more! there are so many letter stickers left over and border stickers.. you make lots and lots of these for yourself or friends and family! SUper fun!

Anyhow.. have a WONDERFUL weekend.. and see you back here monday when I officially announce and start sign ups for my next three classes!!! wahoo! can't wait! see you then!

happy thursday!
 

 

 

Behind the Art June 2012 MM kit video!!

Hey friends! Sorry it's not monday.. life got in the way.. but in a GOOD way.. my sister.. well sisters and mom came into town for an unexpected visit.. so spent some time with them! I miss my siblings since they have all gradually moved away over the last year.. you take for granted when you live close.. just how awesome it is to be able to see them whenever you want! So it was good to see them and their kids! Love my nieces! One of my  nieces, Jessica.. is 17

 

 and will be graduating next year and LOVES art and drawing.. she want to major in art  in college and I told her TO GO FOR IT! I would have loved to be "professional" trained as an artist.. to understand paints and mediums and colors.. everything I know is self taught.. either by trial and error or googling it to find out about it! lol.. so how cool to actually study it in collage. I begged her once I got my studio finished to come spend a week with me and just paint! I am always so inspired by young people who have a passion for art! Makes my heart soo happy! (I also told her she has to paint me something for my art wall.. and so lucky she agreed!)

anyhow.. great week so far!
So today I am posting about our June Scarlet Lime Mixed MEdia kit.. each month I do a video using this kit..

 and here is what I came up with for THIS month..

  

I used the June Mixed Media Kit as well as the Wood Ampersand canvas, Archival Ink Pads in Various colors, golden fluid paints, DecoArt Brights paint pack and Tim Holtz alcohol inks. Oh and faber castell pens for shading AND my infamous doodle pen (that is where all the texture on the case comes from)..

Lots and lots of color!!  as usual right?  lol

you will notice at the start of the video I talk about how I want to keep the background white (and infact don't put any paper on it or paint.. just spray right onto the white canvas).. and then yeah.. my plan for white space just goes to pot. lol

there is SOME white space.. but not as much as I had originally intended.. but you have to paint what feels good right? So.. he video is posted below.. just a bit.. 


 BUT FIRST.. some other fun news.. so many of you ask me where the music comes from that I use for my videos both on youtube and in my classes. and MOSt of it comes from my talented baby brother, VJ (or Van Campbell Junior)..

anyhow after much pleading and begging for over a year.. he finally created an album featuring all the songs.. and will be available in our Scarlet Lime store starting MONDAY!!

his album.. Just around the Bend

features 9 songs.. all written and performed by him on his guitar. Monday I will post some sneak peeks of it and we will have a special offer on them as their debut! thank you VJ!! mwah!

Okay so here is the June MM kit video!! happy Wednesday!

 

 

Behind the Art Video: May Mixed Media kit

Happy Memorial day!! What a beautiful day it looks like it might be here in Shelley. Not warm.. but at least sunny :). Gonna go spend some time today to visit my dad's grave.. and put some Mountain Dew on it. (he wasn't the flower type.. but oh man he loved his Mountain Dew!). My kids always leave all sorts of things.. notes, bracelets they've made, treats they bought.. same with the other cousins. When we visit his grave we often times find all sorts of fun nicknack's laid there by one of his 27 grandchildren.. they TRULY loved him! (love you dad!)

So last week I was finally able to get into the studio and play with our May Mixed Media kit from Scarlet Lime. I KNOW so many of you were wondering how in the heck I was going to use those United States die-cuts! lol.. and hopefully I showed you that you don't always have to use a product for how it was intended.. here is what I made..

I used the die-cuts to make leaves for the trees... (just loved the graphic map designs on them.. thought they would make really cool leaves!!)

Used the American Crafts Micro Beads to cover some of the Studio Calico Wood Veneer Hearts.. (stamped some too with my new Classified Newsprint stamp included in the kit)

Also used the She Art Doodle Rubons in the kit to add texture to the leaves and tree trunk!

The flowers are the Die-cut Stickers from Crate Paper

Used the saying "do what matters most" on the back of the packaging from the Doodle Rubons.. (gotta get resourceful sometimes!)

seriously love those doodle rubons..

this is what is included in the kit.. (except the stamp included is the my new NewsPrint Stamp.. not the one featured in the picture)

So.. it was a ton of fuN! I also used a 9"x12" deep edge canvas.. which is a new size for me! And I loved it!

We still have some of these kits available in the store!!  so check em out!

AND if you are interested in subscribing to our mixed media kit and automatically receive it each month at your doorstop.. you can sign up on our "kits" page of our website (www.scarletlime.com)
on the 1st of june :)

Anyhow.. enough talk! Let's watch the Behind the Art Video!! Enjoy and Happy Monday!