Guest Designer - Janaina (Jana) Oliveira
March 25, 2010
My name is Jana Oliveira. I live in Central New Jersey with my husband, my 1 year old son and my beagle. My first passion was to do cards. I became a stamper, but then I started to tell my story using mini albums, mixed media and layouts. I have an attraction to use a layered look and mix different products when doing my mini albums and altered art and a more simple photo focus designs for layouts.
I would like to talk today about the fear many of us have using different mediums in our projects. Usually the fear to use products designed for mixed media, such as acrylic paints, gesso, crackle mediums, alcohol inks and the list can be endless.
Even for myself sometimes these mediums can be overwhelming especially if we want our project to be perfect. But something I'm learning everyday is to let it go. I always start to think if my son twenty years from now will care about perfect lines or acrylic paint applied without any stroke marks. I want him to know I had fun and used my creative self to tell our story.
One thing I like to do is to use a lot of layers.
In this piece I've used many layers: paper,
acrylic paint, sprays, die cuts, fabric, stamps . So, in the end we can see
that it's possible to achieve harmony among so many different mediums , you
just have to try it !
Soon I will be showing how to use these techniques with Clear Scraps acrylic albums. They have so much possibilities and different uses, so you can be confident that you are going to have a unique album to tell your story !
Jana
http://www.with2worlds.com
Thanks Jana for sharing this project with us and some tips on using different mediums!
Keep an eye out next week for an amazing acrylic Owl album that Jana did using some of these same techniques!
Congrats Jana...you picked the master of mini albums...she is always showing some great inspiration!!!!
Posted by: Sue from Oregon | March 26, 2010 at 08:56 AM