A New Day. A New Blog.

I have started another, second blog. This other second blog is dedicated to my mixed media art. It is called Trash to Treasures Art, as my mixed media art is built heavily upon recycled and upcycled materials that I found here and there and everywhere.

My mixed media art is created using not only traditional art supplies, but also recycled cardboard, old book pages, and other various finds.

This blog here, MissAdventureArt, will remain put and will be dedicated to my more traditional drawings and illustrations. I decided to create a second blog so that my drawings and my mixed media art could each have their own space, rather than being cluttered together in one hectic blog. As I've noted before, I also have two separate Etsy shops, one for my drawings and one for my mixed media art. My Etsy shops can be visited using the tabs at the top of each respective blog.

So, please also visit me over at Trash to Treasures Art!

More trash to treasures.

I finished three more mixed media art tags, and they are now available in my TrashToTreasuresArt Etsy shop!

"Keep calm and eat pie."

"Be U."

"You're a hoot."

Links to both of my Etsy shops can be found at the top of this very blog!

Happy Easter!

Cake and Chemistry

There are two more new mixed media art tags available in my TrashToTreasuresArt Etsy shop! Here they are:

Words to live by: "Keep calm and eat cake."

Instead of pages from old books, for this one I used an old chemistry catalog. Copper + Tellurium = CuTe!

I've really found a new passion in creating these art tags. I get to use so many different media and techniques, while employing the awesome practice of recycling/upcycling otherwise unwanted material. I'm also working on revamping some cardboard boxes using these same mixed media techniques, although the boxes admittedly take longer to make (but of course they're still fun!). My first box is almost completed, and I'll post some pictures of it here -- as well as put it in my shop! -- as soon as I've finished it.

Happy April, bloggers! (No, this post is not an April Fools' prank.)

Stocking up!

I am working diligently to stock up my TrashToTreasuresArt Etsy shop. These two art tags are now available in the shop:

"Keep calm and eat cookies."

"C'est la vie."

Today I started on a new batch of tags, which are still in the early stages of production. I also have a number of tags that are almost ready to be added to my stock in TrashToTreasuresArt. These are some of those almost-ready tags:

These tags are extremely fun to create. From start to finish, I'm having a blast with each and every one of them. If you want to visit either of my Etsy shops, just click the links at the top of this blog!

Web store news!

I'm excited to announce that I have opened a second Etsy shop, this one dedicated to my mixed media art! I am of course still maintaining my MissAdventureArt Etsy shop, which contains my drawings, but after some deliberation I ultimately decided that I wanted to manage my mixed media art and my drawings in separate Etsy stores.

My new shop's name is TrashToTreasuresArt. I chose this shop name because my philosophy in creating my mixed media art is to largely use recycled and upcycled goods, such as scrap cardboard and old books that are otherwise not being put to use. I am working on stocking up this new shop as quickly as possible, but these three art tags are already available at TrashToTreasuresArt:

"You make my heart tick."

"You're my cup of tea."

"You're the cat's meow."

To visit either of my Etsy shops, just click on the links at the top of this very blog of mine!

Good night!

Mixed Media Mess

My workspace is a mixed media mess today. I'm working on creating some more art tags as well as revamping some recycled boxes with some mixed media art. Fun times!

The scene of the crime.

In the upper right corner of that picture you'll see just a couple of my newest mixed media art tags. In the upper left corner is a WIP box I've been working on. Soon I'll share some pictures of the fruits of today's labor. Also, I'll be sharing some Etsy news sometime in the next couple of days. Stay tuned!

I hope everyone is having a beautiful weekend!

Mixed Media Art Tags

A couple of posts ago I showed you the first ever mixed media art tag that I completed. Since then I've been experimenting with a few new products and techniques, and with these I've created some more art tags. I had a lot of fun in the process, and here are the results of that fun:

I think I've truly found a new love in creating these mixed media art tags. They allow me to create fun little drawings and experiment with fun collage techniques. What's more, I'm happy to be practicing a lot of recycling/upcycling with these, using scrap cardboard that I cut into the size and shape of tags. And the paper onto which I drew the images is simply from the pages of old books I've had sitting around for ages. Even the little decorative dots you see on the tags are recycled/upcycled, as I acquired these using nothing but my trusty hole puncher and some empty yet pretty Kleenex boxes.

I hope you like my art tags so far! I've got plenty more of them in the works, so stay tuned!

I hope all you bloggers out there are having a wonderful weekend!

Cup of Tea

One way I've decided to use my old book pages is by making tags. I create drawings on bits and pieces of my old book pages and then, in a sort of collage, I use Mod Podge to adhere them to a piece of scrap carboard that I've cut down to the size and shape of a tag.

Here's a shot of the first mixed media tag I've created:

"You're my cup of tea."

I still need to attach the string at the top of the tag, but other than that this one is finished. I hope you like it! I've already started my next mixed media tag -- amongst roughly a thousand other projects -- so stay tuned for more!