The Scarlet Lime

September 2013 Mixed Media kit Tutorial By Robin Blackman

Hello again!

Excited to share with you the canvas project I created using the September 13 mixed media kit!

I used a few extra supplies to go along with the kit this month:

 

 1 10X10 deep edge canvas, twine, Mod Podge, Helmar 450 glue, craft paints, Faber Castell Big Brush Pens, Ranger Alcohol ink, dry wall tape, Stazon ink, heat tool, scissors, spray bottle, Scarlet Lime pen, and 2 great stamps by Christy Tomlinson!

 

I usually just “wing it” when I start a project and see where I wind up. This time I decided to sketch a couple of ideas on my newsprint paper I always work on.

 

I knew I want the background to be more neutral, with brighter colors for the heart. I picked out a few papers and ephemera from the kit along with a few strips of dry wall tape (from Lowe’s) for some texture.  I then added a  few colors of paint, ink and some stamping.  I used one of the die-cuts from the kit for a stencil on the background.

 

I picked a few brighter colors and patterns of paper from the 6x6 pad, sketched out a big heart on the back ground and just started cutting strips. I laid out the strips to fill in the heart, and glued them down with Mod Podge.  I really love the paint brush included in the kit! It’s my go to brush for just about everything!

 

I then added some embellishments (keeping in mind that I was going to add a photo later).  I put a little paint, ink, and stamping on the die cuts, wood veneer pieces, and rhinestones to match.  Also, at this point I added some rub-ons and doodling with the white gel pen. (I love that pen!).

 

Next I wrapped the banner pieces with some twine and glued them down with the Helmar 450 glue.  I glued down the photo, added some paint around the edges along with some white painted splattered around the canvas.  I added journaling around the heart with the gel pen and that was it! Finished!

I hope you the project for September.  The kit is great! Lots of good things to work with!  I don’t have a blog yet (working on it!), but if you like, you can follow me on Instagram or Facebook. 

 

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October Mixed Media Kit 2013 by Robin Blackman!

Hey friends! excited to start having Robin, Junelle and a few other guest join me each month in creating projects using items from the store and our Scarlet Lime Mixed Media kits!

This first project I want to share was done by Robin Blackman using the October 2013 mixed media kit!
I hope you enjoy!

xoxo

Christy

 

By Robin Blackman

hello! SO excited to be here!

I have created a fun whimsical canvas for you using the October Mixed Media kit from Scarlet Lime!

These kit are still available for purchase  HERE.. or you can sign up for a Monthly subscription HERE on the Scarlet Lme Website!

 

 

I added a few simple supplies as well:

A deep edge canvas, Mod Podge, Faber-Castell Big Brush India Ink pens, the FAMOUS Scarlet Lime pen, Signo Uni-ball pen (white), craft paint, Helmar 450 glue, staz-0n ink, Bombay India Ink,  Ranger Alchohol ink, Hero Arts stamp, stencil by Christy Tomlinson, bubblewrap, punchinella, Ranger heat tool, and Tim Holtz scisscors.

 

 

I started by covering the canvas with various torn papers from the kit with Mod Podge .

I brayered on a few different colors of paint, and used the Mr.  Huey’s ink from the kit with a stencil and stamps to created the background. ( I just love that roller stamp from Glitz!) I then used India ink to create  some drips here and there.

To create the flower blooms, I tore various size circles from the paper pad and glued on the wood veneer shapes. I cut apart a few of the shapes to get the hearts and petals on some of the flowers.  I used paint, Faber-Castell pens and rub ons to decorate the flowers.

 

 

Next, I created the flower vase using one of the 4X6 cards from Prima.  The leaves are drawn on with one of the india nk pens and highlighted with rub-ons and a white pen.

I found a quote I liked at www.thinkexisit.com , cut out the words, glued  them to the canvas with Mod Podge and added a little doodling and more paint. That’s it!

I hope you enjoy the October kit!    Robin

 

Tree Canvas Using the Scarlet Lime Mixed Media Kit

Yes, it is that time again...Time to get your hands messy! Making canvases is one of my new favorite things to do. It makes me feel like an artist each time I create one. It also lets me indulge myself in my love of bright and vivid color. I used the  Scarlet Lime Mixed Media Kit with Christy's new She Art Line by Pink Paislee.

 This canvas is was a ton of fun and it amazes my how I can actually create an image from just a few hand cut triangles. My trees were perfectly frames by the Silver Rhinestones Nestabling Pennants from Want2Scrap. What a fun and different way to use them.

The Kaiser Craft Rub-ons and Faber-Castell India Ink Pens are perfect to add some fun details.

And just one more so you can see some of the fun details in this...

Now for one more way to use this kit...how about an ATC?

I hope you are inspired to dig in and get you fingers messy too. It is really very freeing to create and not worry about making mistakes.  In the mixed media world mistakes tend to make the best art!

Lori Jolley: sunshine canvas

I hope you are seeing more spring than we are! We've had snow, rain, clouds, wind and just barely enough sunshine to make me ache for warm weather! And that is what inspired my canvas this month from the March Mixed Media kit with Christy's fun papers! 

Every year I can barely wait for warm weather and SUNSHINE after the long, dreary winter so I made a canvas that is happy and warm and full of promise of the coming spring. It says, "Bring back the golden sunshine."

April Showers and Flowers

Hello! It's Savitri again :) How is your spring? It's been very British here the last few weeks: Rain, fog, random sunshine and lots of beautiful flowers! 

So, for this month's theme, I came up with April showers and flowers. I want this to be a reminder that while it might be gloomy outside, there are still memories and photographs to be captured and perserved. There are so many things that can be inspired by this month's theme, some examples are:

A walk after the rain. Do note the oddness of this photography... Our youngest is a much stronger walker than her big sister (by five years), HA HA! Oh, don't forget the adorable rain gears!

The glorious blooms that comes with all the rain.

The warm cup of goodness served using vintage inspired floral china.

And last, a page created using the March Main kit with flowers, spring inspired colors and bugs -- it's when they all start coming out of their little winter hideout (kind of wish they just stay there all year long).

I hope you are having a wonderful April! I cannot wait to use this month's theme when creating with Scarlet Lime's April kits!!! 

Laters!

Savitri: March Numbers

Hi again!!! Sorry for the late posting but I just came back from vacation (I saw Queen Elizabeth II too!!) and family just left after two weeks of visiting us here in Jolly Good England :)

Over the weekend I got a chance to do a bit of scrapbooking and with the "numbers" theme in mind, I created this two layouts using March's (awesome) Frugal Fab kit. Besides the goodies from the kit, I used Tim Holtz orange spray which I think adds a bit of fun to the layout.

Just an FYI, my oldest is in love with crepe. Everytime we see a crepe booth she'd ask for one.

This next page is of the youngest who LOVES to pick up sticks. We go for a walk often and every time she'd find a stick and would be carrying it around, and hitting whatever along the way with it, until something better comes along. Oh, she walks around with her bunny too. Bunny on one arm and stick on the other hand.

Again I used the Frugal Fab kit for this page. For a little bit of fun, I used Christy's new stamp, Distressed Criss-Cross, right under the photo. I used a very bright yellow ink pad to make the pattern stand out. Love it!!

Hope you enjoyed the two bits pages that I created. Until next time!!!

 

Mimi Leinbach: March Simple Layouts...Back to my Roots

I love that I am trying new things creatively...slowly making my way in the world of mixed media. Digging in and getting messy but every now and again you need to visit your roots. I did that this month with the March Frugal Fab Kit. I don't do nearly the amount of layouts I used to do but it was really nice to return to my roots.

I dug into some of my pictures and found this picture of a family ski trip. The colors were perfect for this kit.

And a few more details...

My second layout is of our dear friends. They are my sons second family and for Christmas this past year I did a photo shoot with the all the "men" in the family.

The colors in this kit are perfect for Spring.

Thanks so much for popping by to check out the kits, be sure to check back soon. I went mixed media to the max on the March Main Kit.

 

Melanie Jarocki: March 2012 Kit Projects

Hello! Happy April 8th! And for those of you celebrating Easter today:

 I used the March Frugal FAB kit to make this card.

And, because April and 8th sounded so good together, that was the day DH and I decided to get married 17 years ago. LOL Here is the card I made for him, again with the March Frugal FAB kit and some rub ons from the main kit:

It's always fun to celebrate holidays and special events in our lives, but don't forget to celebrate the everyday things as well. This layout is about how our family decided to go for a walk to get donuts one morning for breakfast. It had been very rainy for several weeks, and we finally had a clear (albeit cold) morning to get outside.

 I used the March Main kit, along with some of Christy's new SheArt rub ons and paper pieces.

Have a wonderful Sunday . . . whatever you are celebrating today :)

March Kit Projects: Dena Hamlin

Some times the best things are worth the wait. The March Kits being one of them! Filled to the brim with some crazy gorgeous goodness, namely Christy's new line with Pink Paislee (looooved it!!!!) you could still smell the ink drying on the paper :)

I couldn't resist digging into that line first. Having taken Christy's She Art Class last year, I felt the need to create my own She Art girl with her new line. I got some help with the textures by using some of Christy's new stamps with Unity 

and her new vintage doily mask: 

and came up with this She Art Girl:

Now typically the SheArt girls are created on canvases, but guess what...I couldn't find my canvases and here was the handy piece of cardboard laying in the garage...sooooo I just went with it and used what I had. I ended up really having fun working and utilizing the texture of the cardboard and hello, its FREE! This was such a fun project to work on and I let me daughter help along too. She is anxious to make her own She Art doll!

You can register for the SheArt Class HERE   There is so much information and it is so creatively refreshing and challenging, you won't regret it!

Remember how we talked about numbers last month? Well here is my project featuring numbers!

The number I ended up focusing on is 34....what I am going to be on my next birthday....YIKES! I remember when 34 sounded ancient, like you would have one foot in the grave, ancient...I was inspired by the Pink Paislee measuring tape ribbon (ADORABLE!) and the first number that popped out to me was 34, and it immediately struck a chord with me. I repeated the number up above by using the Pink Paislee stickers and then added more numbers in the form of the year. Had I been thinking and had a bit more time, I think I would have liked to mask 34 somewhere on the layout with some paints...but alas...coulda, shoulda, woulda.

Have you used your March Kits yet? We would love to see them. Link us up to your projects. Let us take a peek and be inspired by YOU! 
Our April kits should be on the way soon...so while we wait, check out Christy's newest workshop in coordination with Junelle Jacobsen: Art of Wild Abandonment   This hands down has been the most intriguing and inspiring class workshop that Christy has offered yet. If you could only see the work that the students are producing. It is awe inspiring, jaw dropping kind of work. You can find more information about the workshop HERE! 

Stay tuned as more projects featuring March's kits are shared!

Wild Abandonment

Hi there! 

I'm popping in here with some praise for Christy and her workshops and classes. They are amazing and so fun! I have loved them all! Christy's She Art girls are adorable and her color workshop and Three hearts class were great, too, but my favorite so far is definitely the Art of Wild Abandonment with Junelle Jacobsen.

Junelle teaches the "wild art" classes and Christy does her own series of videos on Wednesdays with her take on the class and projects. Junelle is the sweetest person - you really feel like you are there with her as she teaches. She is funny and real and so encouraging. I have loved "meeting" her through the workshop! 

I am not an artist. I took an art class a long, long time ago in high school, but I haven't drawn or sketched since then. I can't even doodle and I have never used watercolors since I was a child so I am a complete beginner in this area.   BUT. . .

here is my very first project from the class. Drawing radishes!!

Crazy fun! And honestly - if I can do this - anyone can. I love that we jump right in and forget the "rules" and we use the simplest tools - paper and a mechanical pen and a big eraser. Then we learn how to use watercolor and so on. 

This is another idea from the class. Simple owls.

See - I am not an artist.  My youngest children can draw better than this and I may not get much better. I doubt if I'll ever completely "WOW" anyone with my art - but I can already tell that I really like this way of expressing myself and I want to learn more. Isn't it wonderful when we find a  medium that allows us to grow and fulfills our need be creative and expressive and that is satisfying to us! So I'm encouraging you to try new things - art or gardening or photography or whatever interests you - and try it!

Or rediscover it!

Or reinvent it!

And remember - we all have to start somewhere and the bottom is as good as anywhere! ;)