Mixed Media Bunting Tutorial

Today I am sharing a special project :)

and I am also going to show how I made it.

I am making this post to respond to the 

 Kraaft Shaack Design Team Kall

#DTKall  #KraaftShaakDTKall   #DesignTeamKall  #DesignTeam

I hope you like it :)

This bunting represents me

How I am, what I like, what I live for :)

First I started with the prep work

 by applying white gesso to small paper bags

Then I added some acrylic paint to some of the bags

to use as a background

Now I am going to start by describing how I made each one 

of the flag starting with the left one that has the initials

J and J 

which represents my daughters, both of their names start with J :)

I started by applying a little glop of different colors of acrylic paint

and smashing it down with a children's brush 

once dry I took a piece of a paper full of holes

that I my husband had in between his tools in the garage lol

and used it as a stencil but you can find much pretty stencils here :)

when is dry you can stamp the letters J and the arrow 

Now for the second one I used a sponge to apply acrylic paint

then I just added a flower 

using Tombow permanent adhesive

and a little yoga sticker also.

this represents my new way of exercise

which I am trying to stick with... yoga :)

Now lets move on to the next flag

I used a honeycomb stencil to make a background

where I stamped some words

Believe

Enjoy

Celebrate

Life 

(which I wrote lol )

This flag represents my dear life lol

I chose a honeycomb stencil

because I get an Anaphylactic shock with bee stings :/

I discover this twice in my life 

once when I got stung

and another one when I was getting tested for bee allergies :/

O.k. so the next one is the easiest one

and very fun too

I painted the paper bag with

Chalkboard paint

so much fun!

The next flag represents part of my morning routine

my gratitude journal

after I used the white gesso

I added blue acrylic paint

by painting it on bubble wrap

and then stamping it on the gessoed paper bag

once dry

I stamped the words

love on the top

and gratitude in the middle

then I doodled around them

I also drew two hearts with white acrylic paint

and doodled around them too

as well as the right edge of the flag :)

This next one I made is because I love coffee :)

so I started by cutting out pieces of paper from an old book

gluing them with

Tombow Mono Multi liquid glue

and adding some acrylic paint to the edges of those papers

once dry I added brown paint with a pencil eraser

to make dots

and then some stickers about coffee

and a coffee cup doodle that I made :)

using my Pitt Artist pen

Last but not least my favorite Owl :)

I smashed some blue acrylic paint

with a child's brush

while that was drying

I doodle my owl with a pencil

and then go over it with 

my Pitt Artist pen

I cut it out and added to my flag

and painted the branch with brown acrylic paint

to add more depth to the whole picture

I drew the leaves with my Pitt Artist pen

as well as the little doodle on the corner :)

as you can see I cut a triangle at the end of all the flags

after they were all done.

To be able to hang the flags on the ribbon

I folded the paper bags using the

Martha Stewart Scoreboard

and gluing them on the back with the

Tombow Mono Permanent Adhesive

I hope you like my project

it really didn't take that long

it was very quick and very easy too :)

with much love :)