Love This Life: Mixed Medium with Shari Carroll
Welcome to the blog my friends and Happy Saturday! I’ve been playing with some paints… and oh what fun I had!
I started off with the Tim Holtz Etcetera Small Tag, it’s perfect for these types of projects. I coated it first with white gesso and then added torn pieces of Tim Holtz Tissue Wrap. From there I started finger painting with Dina Wakley’s paints in Blushing, Lime, Tangerine, Turquoise and White. This are a yummy combination of colors if you’re not sure where to start with paints!
Once the paints were dry, I cut out shapes to create a house and glued it in place on the tag. I painted it first then went back over with Distress Crayons Peacock Feathers, Peeled Paint, a little bit of Spiced Marmalade and Vintage Photo.
I used a couple stencils on the house to add some detail added a heart and edged everything with a black Stampers Big Brush pen. These pens are great for smudging and moving color around before they dry. For my splatters, I diluted some black gesso and tapped it onto the tag with a paint brush.
There are a few other details that I did for this project and I’ve filmed the complete process in 2 videos. You can view them below or on our YouTube channel here. Part 1 – Part 2.
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Thanks for stopping by today. I hope I’ve given you some inspiration to play around with some paints to create a fun project!
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Shari, I LOVE the size of that tag! HOW FUN! And we do forget, our hands/fingers are tools too! ;) This came out BEAUTIFUL! SUPER JOB!!!!
My kind of project. I love when the mixed media projects show up on the blog. Always getting me moving in my own out of the box way inspired by what I see here.
Beautiful colors & love the layers of stencil & tissue wrap
The colors on this tag just make me happy! Beautiful, thank you!
Wow this tag is stunning. Love your mixed media projects, Shari!!!!
Love these mixed media backgrounds. The play with white and black is fabulous
That’s very pretty!
I love how w your project turned out! Where can one find luggage tags?
This is so up my alley creative wise … what a fantastic job of showing how to on the double video … thanks so much Carroll!
Very pretty and colorful tag. I like the colors and the heart on the house.
Wow! I LOVE those beautiful bright colors!!
So cool. I have not tried gesso yet. You have peaked my interest with this project. Thanks Shari
I’ve never seen anyone able to make a grungy piece that remains cheerful, bright, and light – well done. I’m in love with the juxtaposition. Just like real life!
Awesome colors! Love the tag!
Very fun tag. Love the colors and the stenciling!
Those.Colors.
Wonderful arst look to this with great colors; epecially liking the paint speckles.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
Meant artsy not arst.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
Your mixed media posts here at SSS are my very favorite! Always so fun and inspirational. Love
this bright, happy tag!
Whoa that’s amazing! Love the bold colors and design!
Fantastic Tag!! Love all the colors
So wonderfully bright and lovely!!
Thank you for sharing this art work and the video – your tag is so appealing – lovely colors – just outstanding!
Wonderful tag. I love the black edges, making the colors really popping.
Great colors and I like the black edging, makes everything pop! Just my style.
I am new to all of this and am just in awe! Thank you for sharing your talent! Love the colors!!
What a beautiful tag and Love this Life is terrific. The videos are great, just wish I could be in a workshop with you in “real life.”
Love everything about it! The colors, the house with a heart, the black edges, so pretty!
So fun and happy Shari! I love it!
WOW! Shari, I have always been a huge fan of tags and I am always looking for new and creative ways to make them fun and different. Thanks to you and Vicky P. I have also become a huge Mixed Media fan and this is a project I could not tear myself away from! An incredible job on it and thanks for sharing your amazing talent!
I love the etcetera tags, and really enjoyed watching the magic happen on your videos!
Love your details here and thanks for sharing. I love making bookmarks and I use all the old backings from my craft embellishments and once covered with gesso you would never know it was a cardboard piece!!
Always love Shari’s projects and find inspiration watching her videos!
Love this delightful tag-so cheery and bright!
Beautiful! I love the bright colors and the edging in black makes the whole thing pop. Gorgeous and thanks for sharing your process.
Adorable tag! Love the colors and the design. Great job!
So pretty. Love the color combo. Those colors just pop!
Loved watching you create in the videos. It was truly inspiring.
Very fun! Love the bright energizing colors and the cute little house.
This is such a fun tag!
Really Beautiful!!!! I love all the bright colors!!!
Fab project – beautiful colouring!
Beautiful blend of colors!
Just love all the fun and bright colours you used on this project!
Great combination of materials and techniques. I’m curious what the black film is that you used to transfer onto the project with the glue stick. I didn’t see a link in the products group. Thanks for sharing this with us!
These tags are so much fun. Love yours!
I like the fact that you fingerprinted the paints. Love the colors.
Beautiful! The colors are fantastic!
Very pretty!
Great tag and beautiful colors. Thanks for sharing.
Linda D.
I also like seeing what you’ve created.