CLOSE TO MY HEART MY CRUSH SCRAPBOOKING BOOKS AND MIXED MEDIA WITH CTMH PRODUCTS AND MY CRICUT - FREE TEXTURED PASTE RECIPE

Ive been tinkering with mixed media of late and incorporating my Close To My Heart products.

This month I have an awesome special on during June 2015 for My Crush Books and assortments

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or checkout all the promotion details - CLICK HERE

Stencils can be so expensive to buy, So why not make your own ?

Its so easy, I simply laminate a pouch through my laminating machine.  Using my Cricut Expressions Machine,  a new Cricut Mat and My Close To My Heart Artbooking Cricut Cartridge, i cut out the chosen stencil i like from the Overlay section of the cartridge.

Cover your My Crush Book with mod podge (click here free mod podge recipe) and allow it to dry then place your stencil on top and cover with textured paste and either allow to dry or use your heat gun to dry it faster.

TEXTURED PASTE RECIPE:

1/4 Cup Boiling Water

2 Cups of Bi Carb Soda

2 Cups of White Acrylic Paint

1 Cup of Pva Glue

3 Cups of Corn Flour

Next step is to embellish your journal and cover in Gesso

Now lets colour it in, Close To My heart have spray pens

3 in a pack for only $5.50 and I mix mine with water and my Close To My Heart Reinkers a great range with over 40 colours to choose from.

Here is a HANDY TIP - Mix your ctmh reinker with our fabulous LIQUID GLASS and it will give you a wonderful coloured glossy finish on your projects, such as on the lettering of the finished journal.

I have an awesome range of BASE N BLING, charms, pendants and chains.  Why not incorporate them in your Mixed Media, dont just leave them as necklases and bangles, they make great scrapbooking embellishments.

MIXED MEDIA WITH CLOSE TO MY HEART - CTMH PRODUCTS AND CRICUT ART PHILOSOPHY AND ARTBOOKING - FREE RECIPES

Did you know that Mixed Media Projects goes hand in hand with Close To My Heart ?

If you love Scrapbooking, Cardmaking 

and 3D projects, then why not incorporate mixed media into them.

Below are some simple recipes to help get you started and to save you plenty 

of money along the way.

CTMH - Close To My heart have 40 different coloured ink refillers.

(CLICK HERE TO CHECKOUT OUR FULL RANGE)

Using a spritzer bottle or our fabulous SPRAY PENS  and Re Inkers

mix the colour of choice and water together in the spray pens to create

a Ink spritzer.  When using our spray pens put 3 drops of ink in the spray pen, fill

with water and mix well.  If using larger bottles, 100ml spray bottles, I add

20 drops of ink refiller in each bottle.  I like a rich colour, if you prefer 

a more water colour look use less drops of your Re Inker.

TIP:  Label your Spray Pen with the name of the colour because once they mixed in the water

its quite difficult to identify the colour.

Do you make your own Stencils ?

Using your very Own Close To My Heart Cricut Cartridges and Cricut Machine

you can make your own Mixed Media stencils.

Here's how !!!!!!!!!!!!

Using 2 laminating pouches, put one inside the other and put through a laminating machine.

This will create a very thick plastic.  Adhere the double laminated pouches to a new or near

new 12 x 12 Cricut Mat.  I used my Artbooking Cricut collection cartridge to cut out these stencils.

In my creation below, i have used our rolled paper roses which i used the Close To My Heart

Cricut Collection Art Philosophy to cut out the roses and letters.  I encorporated CTMH Base N Bling Charms, Embellishments and assortments, Heart strings paper packet. Ivy Lane assortments and much more.  Mixed media is a great way of using up all your odd bits and bobs, scraps of paper, especially when you hate to throw any out.