This craftalong is for anyone who enjoys or wants to start making mixed media/paper art. All skill levels can participate.
*art by @Smmarrt *
Post questions, comments, and share your mixed media art, paper crafts, art journaling spreads, etc.
We will host art journaling zoom meetups where we will play a video and journal along with it. It’s a lot of fun and you don’t usually need to have to have all the supplies listed in the video. Also, anyone can feel free to host a video session! find a video, post a time, and send the meeting link out!
Quick Links
- Previous Craftalongs
- Monthly Prompts
- Common Supply List
- Resources about Mediums
- Drawing Faces
- Free printable and/or public domain images
- Making decorated/painted papers for collaging
- Gelli printing
- Masterboards
- Art-along videos we’ve done
Monthly Prompts
Previous Craftalongs
2020 Paper and Mixed Media Craftalong and some of 2021
2021 Paper and Mixed Media Craftalong
2022 Paper and Mixed Media Craftalong
2021 Art Journaling Craftalong
2022 Art Journaling Craftalong
2023 Paper, Mixed Media, Art Journaling Craftalong
Common Supply List
suggestions from geekgirl
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Please don’t feel like you have to go out and buy any of it. One thing I love about art journaling is that you can use whatever you happen to have.
But here are some things that are useful:
- Gesso
- Heavy gesso/texture paste/modeling paste – you can make your own texture paste.These can be used interchangeably
- acrylic paint - Liquitex Basics is a decent mid-range brand
- Stabilo ALL pencils . Write on just about any surface
- White and black gel pens . Signo Uni-Ball pens are generally good
- Staz-On black ink pad
- Mixed Media or water color paper – 100-140 lb. But really you can use most anything.
- Water colors
- Paint brushes and triangular makeup sponges
- Stencils (you can make some simple ones with scissors and paper)
- Stamps (you can make some simple ones with fun foam or use things like bubblewrap)
- Things for background texture : drywall tape, joint tape, masking tape, tiny bits of lace and ribbon, book pages
- Glue . My 2 favorites are Scotch 2-way glue applicator and Art Glitter Glue (it’s not actually sparkly)
- Faber Castell gelatos or gel crayons
- Baby wipes
- gel medium or collage pauge.
- acrylic inks
Trashy/recycleables to save:
- different sizes of bottle caps to make circles
- small boxes I can unfold (like boxes that eye drops or ibuprofen comes in)
- the backs of packaging - the cardboard piece with the hole at the top that hangs on racks
- tags - gift tags, clothing tags, tags from tea, etc
- small bits of lace, ribbon, thread, yarn
- envelopes
- notebook fringe
Recommendations from other Lettuce Heads 
Per @AIMR
- tubes of water color paint, creamy like acrylics or use water for watercolor effect.
- watercolor pencils can be shaved to make your own magicals powders
Per @photojenn
- Neocolor II water soluble crayons
- Heat tool - you can also use a hair dryer but a heat tool will dry your pages without also blowing everything around on the table. I recently upgraded and it’s so much nicer!
Resources about Mediums
All about gel medium
All about gesso
Homemade texture paste
DIY Texture Medium
Mixed Media Dos and Don’ts
Drawing Faces
Drawing simple whimsical face by Toni Burt
Learn to draw artistic faces by Dina Wakeley
Learn to paint artistic faces by Dina Wakeley
Pencil sketch on mixed media background by Toni Burt
Free printable and/or public domain images
Maremi’s Small Art Free Digi Papers
The Graphics Fairy
Wikimedia
Vintage Botanicals
National Library of Australia
Gutenberg
Pixabay
Smithsonian Open Access
Smithsonian Institution Flickr
NASA Hubble Heritage Flickr
The British Library Flickr
Old Book Art Illustrations for download
Pinterest for Les Vieux Jours Vintage collage resources: photos, etchings, drawings and more.
USA Library of Congress Flickr
USA Library of Congress Photo Archive online portal
Reusable Art
Karen’s Whimsy
Creative Commons Cultural Contributors for art and music
Making decorated/painted papers for collaging
Painted Paper Collage and Painting
Making different mixed media papers for collage
How to create collage paper quick and easy
Gelli printing
The Basics by Birgit Koopsen
Gelli Plate Techniques Using Repurposed Items and Leaves
Gel Print Stencilling 101
Masterboards
Links from LettuceCraft:
Tutorial by @Reinikka
Tutorial by @Magpie
Tutorial by @geekgirl
Masterboards by @Bunny1kenobi
Masterboard by @GMPNQ
Masterboards by @Bunny1kenobi inspired by @GMPNQ
Masterboards by @Reinikka
Youtube links:
Masterboard technique using gesso resist
Layered Masterboards
Collage Masterboard from scraps
Art-along videos we’ve done
How to make Collage Paper by Jackie Schomburg
Make Your Mark - Creating Collage Papers from Scraps by Kylie Coo Studio
Mixed Media Art Journal Page with Watercolor and Collage by Susanne Rose Art
People to tag when there is an art journal zoom:
@kayrun
@Edel
@Lynx
I’m excited to make more art stuff with you guys soon!!
you’re making me want to get out my alcohol inks!
