Hi everyone!
This is Karen and I am back with Mixed Media with Karen for May!
Ever since I saw the flairs in the Now and Then line, I knew I had to find a way to use them. And then I saw the Mildred Today Dots paper and I knew I had my next mixed media project in front of me.
The first thing I did was to glue the paper into my journal. I then turned the flairs over and removed the pins in the back of each one by one.
Then I arranged them on the page. I tried not to think too long. I find that when I am making mixed media pages (and layouts) the looser I am, the more I like the end result. So I just lay them all down and went
with my initial instincts.
Here's the picture I took when I was all done so I wouldn't forget where each of the flairs were.
After that, I removed all of them and wrote journaling around the circles about all the things I wanted to remember. Important notes to myself.
Then I put the flairs back down. And I drew some loose circles with a very thin black pen around the existing circles. Some black paint around the edges of my page, and I was done.
A few circles were too cutoff for me to fit a flair on them so I added some tiny circle embellishments on them instead. Here's another look:
A simple one this month but it was really fun to do. I want you to remember that a mixed media project doesn't have to mean something complicated and cumbersome. It's always about having fun!
Have you used the flairs yet? I would love to see what you did with them!
Karen
