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Please join me for an intensive, technique driven and fun day of extreme mixed media. In creating our shadow box shrines, students will learn a variety of overlapping techniques that include: mosaic design, painting, rubber stamping, collage, embossing, beading, and embedding just about anything into polymer clay. The result will be a personal and beautiful mixed media mosaic shrine that has a 3 dimensional recessed area to hold a small relic or a special photo. This will be a hands-on class where students will get the experience of making and baking their own tiles and component parts.

Shadow Box Shrines

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kit fee: $20   supply list

• 3 small (2 ounce) packages of the same color Premo or Sculpey III polymer clay
• Rolling pin or rod-PVC pipe works too
• Assorted paintbrushes to include a fine detail brush
• A few rubber stamps (if you have them) with frame shapes, texture and alphabet stamps.
• A small bottle of Weldbond glue-can be found at Ace Hardware stores or online.
• A bag or two of small mosaic tiles to fill in gaps.
• A small item or picture to place inside the center of the shrine (has to be less than 2 inches high.)see
• pics for ideas
• Doo-dads to personalize your tiles like charms, buttons, rhinestones, jewelry parts, and Milagros. (see pics for ideas)
  
  
• Teacher will supply:
• Shadow box frames with hangers attached
• White tiles to be painted
• Clay blades
• Scalpels
• Shrink plastic
• Acrylic paint
• Mica powder
• Embossing powder
• Rub n Buff
• Gold gel pens
• Jewelry glue
• Ink pads
• Seed beads
• Extra commercial tile

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I am a mixed media artist with a passion for combining and overlapping a variety of mediums creating an original style of mixed-media mosaics using handmade tiles. My love of travel to far off places and experiences of living abroad have shaped the way my art looks today. Over the past few years, I have been fortunate enough to combine my travels with the joy of teaching and sharing all of the discoveries I have made along the way. I have appeared on TV on Craft Lab and Crafter’s Coast to Coast. My work has been published in both magazines and books and recently, my own book, Mixed Media Mosaics, was released.