Hello everyone! Karola here with another project! This time I was assigned the task of creating a Mixed Media project, and as you well know I’m not a mixed media girl, but I have in my stash a lot of different kinds of media and love new challenges, so I decided to experiment a little.

Today I would like to show you a layout based on Mistables collection and some other, oldest products. My page have an important element in the center – this is a wooden cover from Mistables Wood Album. I decided to alter it using different media and techniques such as: painting with acrylic paint, heat embossing, misting and coloring with distress ink pads. The wooden cover is stucked with the 3d foam tape to the background so we can hide there an additional images, letters, tags, personal journaling – how I did. Let’s see the final result:

I did recently some very interesting photos of Rose, there are a truly autumnal photos and decided to create a multi-layered, “thankful” page.

So let’s start to alter our wooden cover, because it will be one of the leading decor on my website. This idea has added a lot of texture and dimension of the whole layout!

Prepare a sharp, stiff brush and acrylic paint in white color.

Cover the entire surface, put a thicker and uneven layer of paint to create a beautiful texture…

Leave to dry or use a hair dryer or heat gun to speed dry the surface. Then prepare the mask, white embossing powder (or any color you want, but white is clearly visible) and heat embossing gun. Put the mask on the surface and then put a lot of embossing ink on uncovered pieces of mask, then remove the mask and put a lot of embossing powder, remove the excess and start to melt embossing powder using heat gun.

Now we have a wonderful pattern and beautiful texture on our wooden cover. So we can add some color to match the background of the page, but also a little distress to imitate the old, weathered wood. I used a few colors of Glimmer Mists (Marigold, Burnt Red, Yellow Daisy and Mustard Seed) and paper towel to wipe off the excess color from the embossing pattern.

At this point, we can still add some color matched to our background, in my page it’s green, so I used three colors of distress ink pads (Peeled Paint, Shabby Shutters and Frayed Burlap) to add green color on the edges of the cover.

And here is the final result – absolutely unique layer for my Thankful page Of course you can decorate wooden cover in this way for your album, not layout!

Time for a few close – ups, to see how this altered cover working on finished page:

Pink Paislee products used:

• Mistables 12 x 12 Paper Pack 00511
  
• Mistables Chipboard Alphabet 00517
• Mistables Misting Mask 00520
• Mistables Wood Album 00518
• Core’dinations Core Impressions Pack
• Bayberry Cottage – 6×6 Paper Pad 00331
• Butterfly Garden – Ephemera 00448
• Daily Junque – Ephemera 00493
• Daily Junque – Wood Alphabet 00497
• Nantucket – Mini Tassels 00531

I hope you will inspire with my tutorial today and have the courage to use different types of media to create beautiful textures and backgrounds in your amazing creations! As you can see Pink Paislee products combines perfectly with the media! Thank you for visiting the Pink Paislee blog today! Have a wonderful week!