Deco Foil Adhesive Options in Mixed Media
Elizabeth St. Hilaire Elizabeth St. Hilaire

Deco Foil Adhesive Options in Mixed Media

Deco Foil Adhesive Options - This fancy foil looks amazing over my Van Gogh Starry Spirals Mask! I followed along the spirals with the adhesive with both the pen and the squeeze top applicator, here's what I liked best about both.

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NEW! For the Birds 5x7 Masks
Elizabeth St. Hilaire Elizabeth St. Hilaire

NEW! For the Birds 5x7 Masks

For Today’s Tidbit, I am using my NEW For the Birds set of four whimsical 5x7 masks (designed by me and produced by Joggles) to create a cutout shape on brown craft card stock that I will embellish with my Posca paint markers and cut out to tuck into colorful envelopes. The brown craft card stock is great for die cutting and you can add a hand-written note to the back.

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Curvilinear and Geometric Layering
Elizabeth St. Hilaire Elizabeth St. Hilaire

Curvilinear and Geometric Layering

Today’s Tidbit I’m demonstrating one of my favorite techniques, layering curvilinear with geometric stencils and masks. NOW, when I say "geometric" I mean that loosely, anyone who knows me knows I want nothing to do with straight lines!

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Never Say Never! Painted TISSUE Paper
Elizabeth St. Hilaire Elizabeth St. Hilaire

Never Say Never! Painted TISSUE Paper

For Today’s Tidbit I am happy to say that I’ve had a change of Art Heart! I always said I wouldn't paint tissue paper but I found some tissue with spectacular metallic dots that play really nicely with acrylic inks! As an added bonus, I extended my technique to deli paper as well. Let’s go check it out.

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Happy Birthday to Me and My Muse–Gustav Klimt!
Elizabeth St. Hilaire Elizabeth St. Hilaire

Happy Birthday to Me and My Muse–Gustav Klimt!

For Today’s Tidbit I am excited to share with you a very happy BIRTHDAY CARD in the spirit of Gustav Klimt and Me. I am July 13th and Gustav is July 14th, back-to-back. I hope you will be as excited about these new 5x7 masks and birthday card making as I am!

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Going BEYOND GOLD LEAF for Some Serious Bling!
Elizabeth St. Hilaire Elizabeth St. Hilaire

Going BEYOND GOLD LEAF for Some Serious Bling!

Today’s Tidbit features Deco Foil combined with Tacky When Dry Gel Medium for a patterned bit of bling that you can easily add into your mixed media backgrounds.

First I’ll demonstrate it on tags and then I’ll show it on a background. Be sure to watch until the end!

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Wet and Watery Stamping on the Gel Plate
Elizabeth St. Hilaire Elizabeth St. Hilaire

Wet and Watery Stamping on the Gel Plate

Today’s Tidbit shows you how my happy accident provided a pretty cool result! Wetting your foam stamps and pressing them into paint on the gel plate makes for some really interesting and painterly effects!

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Easy Fathers Day Fish Postcard Project
Elizabeth St. Hilaire Elizabeth St. Hilaire

Easy Fathers Day Fish Postcard Project

For Today’s Tidbit I am excited to share with you a simple project where you can use your gel printed papers to create a fun and whimsical postcard to send to Dear Old Dad for Father's Day. OR Send it to anyone else on your list who would appreciate a hand made postcard.

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Freebie 5x7 Stencils and How to Use Them!
Elizabeth St. Hilaire Elizabeth St. Hilaire

Freebie 5x7 Stencils and How to Use Them!

Today’s Tidbit features Barb and I TOGETHER and we are going to show you some FUN ways to use our FREE 5x7 stencil designs, created as a promotional giveaway for your online shopping with Joggles Mixed Media Supply. Thank You for your support of TWO female owned small businesses.

FREEBIE OFFER: June 1st–12th, 2022, the more you spend the more 5x7 stencils you will receive. Details in the video.

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Let’s Play! NEW Aquatic Rice Paper Designs
Elizabeth St. Hilaire Elizabeth St. Hilaire

Let’s Play! NEW Aquatic Rice Paper Designs

For Today’s Tidbit I am super excited to play with adding color to my NEW Aquatic Life printed rice papers, made in Italy. This set of my designs is printed in blue ink rather than black like the previous set of Birds and Bugs with US Mail papers which were printed in black. The subtle difference between the blue and the black is beautiful!

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Adding Texture to Layers with Foam Stamps
Elizabeth St. Hilaire Elizabeth St. Hilaire

Adding Texture to Layers with Foam Stamps

Today’s Tidbit shows you how I add texture to my paint layers BEFORE adding in my stencil or mask. It’a all about the layering… Layer, layer, layer!

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How to Adhere NonStick Craft Mat to Your Surface
Elizabeth St. Hilaire Elizabeth St. Hilaire

How to Adhere NonStick Craft Mat to Your Surface

Today’s Tidbit is in response to your questions about my Ranger Inkssentials NonStick Craft Sheet surface on my desk. Nothing sticks to it! Here’s how you adhere it to your surface.

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How to Collage With Gel Prints
Elizabeth St. Hilaire Elizabeth St. Hilaire

How to Collage With Gel Prints

Today’s Tidbit shows you exactly what the heck I do with ALL those gel prints I make… I create figurative, painterly, impressionistic Paper Paintings!

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ALL-NEW Stencils, Masks, and Stamp Designs!
Elizabeth St. Hilaire Elizabeth St. Hilaire

ALL-NEW Stencils, Masks, and Stamp Designs!

Today’s Tidbit is unprecedented! This week Barb from Joggles Mixed Media Supplies and I are together to announce the launch of my NEW Van Gogh inspired line. We are super excited to share this with you from Sedona, AZ... My Happy Place!

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Mark Making on Top of Collage
Elizabeth St. Hilaire Elizabeth St. Hilaire

Mark Making on Top of Collage

Today’s Tidbit explores mark making on top of collage with pastel Stabilo Woodies both blended with water and dry.

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Low Relief Texture Scraping with Stencils
Elizabeth St. Hilaire Elizabeth St. Hilaire

Low Relief Texture Scraping with Stencils

For Today’s Tidbit I’m creating some low relief texture rubbing with stencils underneath some thin, smooth papers. I’m scraping thin, Fluid Acrylic paint across the surface of the paper with a plastic card to reveal some wonderful results!

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Archival Mini Ink Pads for Small Projects
Elizabeth St. Hilaire Elizabeth St. Hilaire

Archival Mini Ink Pads for Small Projects

Today’s Tidbit features Tim Holtz Distress Mini Ink Pads that are oil based and archival. I’m painting in watercolor over a fun foam stamp I designed for Art Foamies in my journal.

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