Where did January go?

January may have gone by in a blink, 

but it's been a good month overall.

Imagine my surprise, when I was contacted

by a Representative of 

Stampington Publishing

I was so honoured and thrilled to have 

Birdnuts Mixed Media Blog

chosen for a 

Review of a 

Brand New Publication

for Stampington.com!!!

Artists’ Café

Best of Somerset Mixed-Media

To say I was gobsmacked,

would be an understatement!

But I have to tell you, if you're like me,

having a hard copy, top quality,

magazine in your hands 

is a delight!

But inside was nothing more than absolute treat!

Artists’ Café

Is full of a Selected Variety of some of our 

Absolute Favourite Mixed Media Artists,

taking some of the 

Over the Top Wonderful Tutorials 

from past publications

and compiled them in this Publication!

Can you imagine, 

taking Workshops, with multiple 

Fabulous Mixed Media Artists like, 

Seth Apter, and DJ Pettitt, Lisa Engelbrecht,

Pam Carriker and Karen Cole, 

just to name a few, all in one publication!

And so many more!!

Beautifully photographed and printed, 

each page will make you just want to 

touch and hold and absorb the pages!

And detailed Workshop Tutorials by

each Fabulous Artist

throughout the entire Magazine!

And again, if you're like me, keeping these 

Magazines in our own libraries is always

a must! 

For future reference of learned new techniques, 

and a Wonderful Kickstart for our Muse!

And this one is pure gold in my Library!

So head on over to 

Stampington.com

You won't want to miss out on getting a copy

of this Fabulous Magazine!

Or even getting a Subscription for it!!!

  Artists’ Café

Best of Somerset Mixed-Media

Magazine

Thanks to Stampington.Com

for the Invite, and for all the 

Inspiration!!!

Enjoy!

Hello Everyone!

Where has the time gone!!!

I haven't posted since October of last year for goodness sakes!

But it hasn't been for not having any art time.

Don't we all have moments, or periods of time

of needing to replenish our muse?

Well hope you'll forgive me for being absent, and

in the up coming weeks, I'll have some fun

things coming up, maybe a tutorial or two. 

But for now, I'll just post what I've been working on

since we last saw each other, in hopes that it will

jump start your muse, ideas, and creativity, as

after the Holiday Season I am sure we could

all use a bit of dusting off the Winter ...

One of my Favourite Holiday Gifts from my Hubs

were these....

A 48 piece set of Lyra Aquacolour

Water Soluble Crayons

and

A 36 piece set of Gallery

Watercolour Crayons

Talk about yummy colours!

And great fun experimenting with both sets too!

And you can use them on in so many mediums, tag making,

journaling, on canvas, I'm so enjoying playing with them!

( Graphics on this double tag I made from Tumble Fish Studio

at MischiefCircus.com  a.k.a. Deviant Scrap )

And I am loving making my own Washi Tape

using my new crayons and some stamps!

I'll be doing a little tutorial in the coming weeks

so stay tuned!!

So I encourage you to try out 

Water Soluble Crayons as another source

of creativity!

( graphic from Itkupilli at MischiefCircus.com)

Another whole project I've been working on

is my hand made journal

Nothing more painful to me is to take out

all of the pages from a hardbound book!

I adore books and reading, but bit the bullet

and found a vintage book that I was

willing to go ahead and disassemble...

No regrets! You know why?

Now I have all the pages from inside the book

to use for other purposes as well as this book

I've made. 

I'll explain more in my next posting on how

I'm using the pages.

(Window frame used from Retro Cafe Art)

My Favourite Online Shop :)

www.retrocafeart.com

So there you go.....

that's a slice of what I've been up to,

and a 'hint' at some up coming posts!

( Tumble Fish Studio Graphics

Retro Cafe Art Gallery Lazier Cut-Out Owl

and Handmade Washi Tape and Water

Soluble Crayons)

Journal page.

So I hope you'll all stay tuned, check in, and

hang around as there are some fun things

going to be going on here on 

Birdnuts Mixed Media 

Enjoy!!