Shabby House and new Sparks - by Finnabair

Hi again my dear friends!
The most crazy and creative weekend in Ireland has finished... and I have to tell you I have many reasons to be proud of what we did! Great atmosphere, new friendships, beautiful projects of  my students and a lot of messy fingers - all that was included in our Mixed media gathering package!

During these classes I had a chance for the very first time use my new Art Alchemy Sparks - and they did fabulous job to colour my embellishments during Shabby House Class... oh, did I mention it was the debut of this project as well? Double excitement!

Just check out this mind-blowing combination of blues and browns. It's vintage, feminine and grunt at the same time - perfect combination if you like to stay on the "lighter side of mixed-media", I think.

There are so many inspiring, delicious products to try in this class: Icing Pastes, Liquid Acrylics, Sparks and of course a selection of Art Basics such as Gels and Gesso. We were playing with Tissue Papers, stencils and my favourite metal embellishments - Mechanicals.... oh and don't forget elements of Art Daily Journaling line as well - great mix, don't you think?

I have to tell you although all the Shabby Houses were different - we could pick our favourite colour palette to work with - they were all equally beautiful. I'm so happy my new class was so succesful and I'm already planning all the new colour palettes to work with in the classroom - with my art alchemy paints the possibilities are endless, right?

Here are selected products I've used in this project - all liked to Mixed Media Place Store:

I hope you are having a great week - I'm seeing some of you this weekend in The Netherlands!
Woo hoo!
Sending love

Art is the Answer - Altered Tin and You Tube Hop! - by Finnabair

Hi my dear friends!
We've been hiding the news for a long while - but now it's finally time to share it with you and invite you to join the fun! After some brainstorming and debating inside our Creative Team we've decided to offer you a chance not only to learn some intriguing and inspiring techniques and maybe get out of the comfort zone a little bit but also a possibility to win some cool prizes both from me and from our partner - Prima Marketing.
Sounds tempting? I hope so because we've put together a pretty good selection of video tutorials, all inspired by one theme - Art to Go.

What does it mean?
It can be any mixed-media project which is easy to take with you wherever you go, portable and compact, but still beautiful, uplifting or full of memories. The other option is including the packaging into the piece of art itself - and recycle the elements and parts which would be normally left alone, considered to be useless and unwanted... so are you ready to join us?

Our You Tube Hop has simple rules and following all of them will give you a chance to win one of the prizes from Finnabair or Prima. You can see all the details and start the YT Hop HERE - just make sure you will follow the instructions and visit all the listed videos!

I've made for you a video showing the whole process of alteration of an old tin - and I hope you will have a great time watching it, and maybe try to create something in the similar style?
There are so many possibilities! Also, all the techniques you can see in this video you can easily adapt to other mixed-media projects... how cool is that?

I hope you will enjoy our You Tube Hop - please let us know what you think about this idea and if you have any suggestions and wishes. We are waiting to hear from you!
Enjoy watching  - and jumping through the YT Channels of me and the Team!

Now, join the fun - click the image to go to the video!

Sending love and wishing you a great, creative week