Mixed Media Blog

Bring a touch of the woodland indoors with this richly textured hanging decoration, created from air dry clay using the Cosmic Shimmer Medium Log Slice, Stag Head and Maple Leaves Silicone Moulds. Layered leaves, realistic bark detail and the striking stag centrepiece come together to create a piece that feels wonderfully tactile and full of seasonal character

In this product Spotlight, Sheena is getting creative with the wonderfully characterful Pink Ink Designs – Duck the Halls, DL Stamp Set. With its quirky festive duck and playful coordinating details, it’s a design that offers plenty of scope for creating something a little different for Christmas.

Choosing the right cardstock can make a real difference when you’re stamping, painting and working with water-based inks. But once you have the right surface, there’s also plenty of scope to experiment with how your inks behave on it.

In these two informative videos, Cathie from Pink Ink Designs puts Cosmic Shimmer Ready to Stamp White Cardstock and Cosmic Shimmer Water-Based Inks through their paces. First, she explains why the properties of your cardstock matter, before experimenting with different ways to use our highly pigmented water-based inks to create colourful, one-of-a-kind backgrounds.

For this Spotlight, the focus is on the wonderfully characterful Pink Ink Designs – Flippin' Awesome Penguin, DL Stamp Set. With his winter coat, playful expression and quirky illustrated details, the penguin makes a strong focal point for festive card making, while the coordinating sentiments and decorative elements give you plenty of ways to build a complete design around him.

Cosmic Shimmer Fluffy Stuff is brilliant for creating soft, dimensional effects such as snow and fur, but it can do far more than that. In this project, Sheena starts with those familiar festive uses before taking Fluffy Stuff in a completely different direction – using it as a dimensional base for a painted mixed media beach scene.

Add a handmade touch to your Christmas decorating with this dimensional robin hanging decoration, created using Cosmic Shimmer silicone moulds and lightweight air dry clay. An ornate frame, snowy winter background and layered moulded details come together to create a traditional festive decorative keepsake.

Turn a simple wooden frame into a richly textured mixed media project with Cosmic Shimmer Gilding Flakes, metallic Polishes and dimensional moulded leaves. Follow Sheena's step-by-step tutorial to create the beautiful autumnal finish.

Discover how to turn a beautifully dimensional moulded rose into the focal point of a vintage-inspired mixed media tag using the Cosmic Shimmer Vintage Heirloom Collection. In this real-time tutorial, Sheena Douglass uses the Cosmic Shimmer Sculpted Roses Silicone Mould with air dry clay, then paints the finished rose with Cosmic Shimmer Water-Based Inks to accentuate the sculpted petals and leaves.

Discover how to create a stamped floral card topper, then combine more stamping, stencilling, painting and embossing to create a beautiful vintage-inspired card using the Cosmic Shimmer Vintage Heirloom Collection. In this real-time tutorial, Sheena Douglass uses the Cosmic Shimmer Rambling Roses DL Stamp Set to create the dimensional floral focal point, building the background with the Past & Postal DL Stamp Set, Finishing Touch DL Stamp Set and Heritage Rose Stencil.