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Welcome to Day 2 of the PaperHaus Spring Summer Blog Hop! We are so excited that you are hopping along with us today. We are celebrating the release of the Summer Issue of PaperHaus Magazine! There is SO much inspiration, techniques, projects, and exclusive artist interviews inside! Not only that but it’s an issue filled with amazing Mixed Media projects from people from all over the world! We hope you enjoy flipping through the pages as much as we enjoyed putting it together for you! Below is the link to the summer issue, simply click on the cover to go there now! BUT Come back as we want to show you some amazing Summer projects! If this is your first stop please head to the PaperHaus Blog and start at the beginning to see all the beautiful projects. 
Welcome back! We hope you were inspired, and here is some more inspiration too! Our Summer Delight event is all about fun summer days filled with scrapbooking and crafting! We want to share with you what we have made! Every day on the PaperHaus Blog there will be amazing inspiration and tutorials so be sure to stop on by everyday in June!
If this is your first time here at My Little House Crafts, welcome. Please look around a bit and subscribe to my feed if you are interested in following along on my crafty adventures. I have created this sweet little mixed media piece for you today.
It all started with the quote from one of my favorite songs, I Hope you Dance by Lee Ann Womack. I wanted to make something special for my little M. We are moving in just a few weeks and her new room will need some new decor. I am not normally a mixed media girl, but I wanted to give it a go. I started with one of my 6×6 paper pads, a random piece of cardboard and my favorite Golden Gesso. I covered the cardboard with a thick layer of gesso. Next I chose my favorite patterned papers and and started randomly cutting them into shapes. Then I added the pieces to my cardboard and covered with matte modge podge until I was satisfied with my layering. I then let it dry, and covered it with a thin layer of gesso to tone down the paper. I used a wet paper towel while it was still damp and wiped away some of the gesso to reveal the paper underneath. Now it’s time to get messy! I made some cardstock stencils with my Silhouette and layered them onto my project. I used Clay and Shine Studio Calico Mr Huey to add the stencil layers. While that was drying, I decided to paper piece together a little girl that resembles my M. I used the same papers from the base of the piece, but didn’t ton them down and added some Black Soot Distress ink to the edges. Now, I turn my attention to the quote title. I wanted to make it partially handcut and partially script from my Silhouette. I know that I want to make the Wonder from the same patterned paper that I used for the girl’s hair because I have not used it anywhere else on the piece. So I reversed the image in my silhouette software and then used the sketch function to add it to the back of the patterned paper. I then hand cut it. I adhered the title and was all done! Here is our blog hop list. 1. PaperHaus Magazine www.thepaperhaus.com 2. Jodi Baune - RAK http://dancingintherainjb.blogspot.com/ 3. Heather Leopard – RAK http://thespottedleopard.blogspot.com/ 4. Katrina Hunt www.paperscissorsandglue.blogspot.com 5. Melissa Gener www.missygener.com 6. Corri Garza -RAK – www.buglvr.blogspot.com 7. Lizzie Sanchez www.ohsnaplizzie.com 8. AUTHENTIQUE - http://blog.authentiquepaper.com You will be hopping over to Corrie’s Blog next. Happy Sunday!
Thanks for sharing your project! this is so sweet, thanks for sharing! enjoy *~* this is adorable This looks so pretty! Love what you did with the title! Cute Great sentiment! That is the sweetest little card/tag for a little girl!! Beautifully done!! I like this! Thank you for sharing! This card has a delightful folk art feel to it. Wonderful card. Love this – I really think it is important that we don’t lose our sense of wonder! This was absolutely beautifully done!! Way to go! thanks for the inspiration, lovely quote! Newbie to your blog, I look forward to some new inspiration! I’m sure that piece of decor will look lovely up on the wall. Love this piece – and it was really interesting to read about how you made it, TFS How fun! Mixed media is so versatile! Great textures and sentiment ! Sweet creation. I love that song! Perfect for a little girl! I think you can call yourself a mixed media girl, because your canvas looks great and I am sure your little M is going to love it! CUTE!!! You rocked the mixed media!! Hugs, Katrina What a beautiful mixed media piece, and I love that song!! Love your mixed media project. Your mixed media project is great…love it! Love mixed media art and yours is wonderful!! It’s beautiful! Your DD will love it in her new room I’m sure. well done, Miss M will love this Love your title, and the way you mixed the fonts and colours. What a great hanging piece!! Love it!! I love that song! Love your little mixed media piece, so cute!!! I love doing mixed media. The pink/brown color combo is perfect. I’m not a big mixed media girl either but I think your creation is really cute! Great sentiment. We should always be looking for new things to stretch out imagination. Thanks for sharing. Ive also been experimenting with mixed media but finding it quite tricky! Very cute creation! Cute piece. So cute! I’m sure it will look nice in her new room! For not doing mixed media much..this sure is cute!! Absolutely gorgeous!
This month I have a special article of Top Ten Mixed Media Products that every crafter needs. I also have a new sketch that 5 talented scrappers used to create their layouts.
You can read the entire magazine online and free! Just click on the link above or click directly on the cover photo. Be sure to stop back in tomorrow for a blog hop and a chance to win a special RAK from me!
Happy reading and Happy Saturday.
Hold the presses, I actually made a scrapbook page! Seriously with all the big changes around here lately, scrapping has certainly taken a bit of a back seat. Here is a look at how the page turned out.
Supplies: Patterned Paper, Tape Sheet, Diecuts, Stickers (Crate Paper Maggie Holmes Collection), Letter Stickers (Jillibean Soup), Font (Calibri), Heart Sticker (Studio Calico Darling Dear), Cardstock (Bazzil Basic Paper) Enamel Dots (My Mind's Eye The Sweetest Thing Collection) Patterned Paper (Basic Grey Basics Collection), Adhesive (3M, American Crafts Pop Dots), Date Stamp (American Crafts), Ink (Momento), Punch (EK Success) I have wanted to, for a very long time create a layout with a large quote as the title of my page. After I took this photo on Mother's Day and it was so imperfect and blurry, I knew that this quote would be the just the thing to make this page complete. I used the Maggie Holmes Tape sheet behind the quote and popped it up on some pop dots. Happy Tuesday!
I don't typically share my older layouts. For one, it's not a relection of my current style and often the supplies and no longer available. I don't like to show something that a reader can no longer purchase. Today I am making an exception. This is a layout I made almost 4 years ago and never shared. I don't know why I didn't, because the design is not bad. But, perhaps I was saving it until I was ready to put into words my feelings about this story. When I started scrapbooking, I wanted to scrap all events and made very little attempt to tell a meaningful story. This layout is really the first one I made that told a really story. With Mother's Day just last weekend, it's an important one to me. It tells about my early struggles as a young mother and how I really didn't not become Mama until I went through these trials. I often tell my M that she is the reason that I am a Mama. She doesn't fully understand what that means, I a doubt she will until she has babies of her own. Now, obviously she is my first born, but that's not the reason. She taught me patience, that I never knew I posessed, a calm kindness that I didn't think I could muster and I love that broke my heart. Before her, I did know that you could love so much it hurt, that another life would become infinitely more important than your own, and that you would do anything to protect this life. So thank you, my beautiful little girl, for all those gifts that you gave me the day you took your first breath and that you continue to give me every day of my life. I love you to the moon and back. Happy Belated Mother's Day to all Mamas.
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