Hi there my creative souls!
I've just got home from Phoenix show - Creativation - and oh boy, this was a ride! We've started early with classes and Art Venture to finally set up our new booth on Friday and meet our lovely visitors on Saturday morning... this and a lot more you can see on our Instagram accounts: mine, Prima and Prima- Mixedmedia - check us out!

Today I'm getting ready for the next show - Creativeworld in Frankfurt, so those of you who are coming - please visit me there! Here you can see my demo schedule - visit us at Notions Marketing booth!

And as a treat, I've got 2 samples I've created for this show using mostly 1 product - my new Art Alchemy Waxes. They are simply amazing and luscious: sparkly, metallic and iridescent, even with antiquing, brown undertone - all that packed in a cute, metal tin similar to lip balm... oh wait, did I mention they smell nice too? You have to check it out!

 Her is the combination of Art Basics Heavy Black Gesso over texture made with stencil and Modeling Paste - and with a pretty modest (!) composition with just a bit Art Pebbles and Mechanicals. Can you see these lovely colours?
As you can see Waxes are able to create beautiful, soft layers of colour revealing the beauty of the texture in the same time! And when applied with fingers, they are just perfect for highlights - it is so simple! You want to learn more? Check my tutorial videos here!

I have to admit I just love those cold, deep ocean-inspired colours. A touch of glass glitter makes the project special too!

I couldn't resist and I had to add some seashells I collected this Summer during my short vacation in Ireland. As always, Art Basics Heavy Body Gel worked miracles... all my embellishments and findings stay safely on the book cover!
I hope you feel inspired - and you will keep watching me and my travels online. All the new products will be shipping any moment now, so please keep your eyes opened!
Expect some more Facebook Live videos from Creativeworld too - I'll do my best to share as much as possible!

See you soon - keep your fingers crossed for me, please!
huge hugs!

As you know, this is a very exciting time for me - time for the release of my new 'art babies'!

I'm very happy and proud to introduce my new Art Alchemy Waxes line. I believe they will make many mixed media lovers inspired and that many of your art tables will look a bit different from now on... ;)

Why different? This line of Waxes opens a completely new art field not only for myself but also for you all. I just know you will love their delicious creaminess and lush colors but what really makes my own heart sing is the fact how easy they are to use.

As always, I'd love these new products to tickle your imagination and wake up your creativity!

Let's celebrate then! :) Giveaway and this time there's a chance not just for 1 but for 3 winners!

What is there for you to do is to simply tell me which kind of Waxes you love the most and how would you use them? If you will be chosen you will receive the set you admired the most !

Opal Magic Waxes

Antique Brilliance

Metallique

Are you ready?

I'm waiting for your comments till Sunday January 8th and I'll announce the winner on Wednesday.

Can't wait to hear which of these babies makes your heart sing. :)

I have to admit these ones - Antique Brilliance - are probably my favourite of them all! I just LOVE how versatile they are, adding the most amazing antique effect to my project and beautiful, metallic shine at the same time... but I guess you have to check it out yourselves!



Art Alchemy Antique Brilliance Waxes are unique, gorgeous, wax-based paste with a difference; offering you two wonderful effects in one product! Antique Brilliance Wax has a special opaque, yet permanent finish. It will give you generous colour and shiny results on dark surfaces and antiqued, vintage effects, with a touch of iridescence on lighter backgrounds, turning your artwork into a real treasure. Great for applying with your fingers, sponges, and soft cloths. Perfect for adding colour and finishing touches to mixed-media and home décor projects. Works on most popular surfaces and elements.

If you'd like to compare them with Opal Magic Wax and Metallique Wax - I suggest checking my You Tube here and see the tutorials I made for you earlier this week :)

Hi again - surprise!
I was here yesterday with the first Art Alchemy Reveal Video - talking about Opal Magic Waxes and today I'm back with video nr 2! Would you like to learn more about beautiful, rich metallic looking products? Here you can read more about them:

Art Alchemy Metallique Wax is beautiful, metallic, wax-based paste which will turn your artwork into a real treasure while adding amazing, rich, metal-like finish to most surfaces and elements. Great for applying with your fingers, sponges, and soft cloths. Perfect for adding color and finishing touches to mixed-media and home décor projects. Metallique Wax has a permanent finishing cover giving you great, color-filled, shiny results on dark and light backgrounds.




huge hugs

Hi again my creative friends!
Last Friday I was telling you there are some really cool products coming very soon - and I mentioned my new line of Art Alchemy Waxes! I was thinking it would be good if I could make a video about each kind of wax so you can see them better and hopefully make friends with them!

Today we are starting with Art Alchemy Opal Magic Wax, the one that you can consider to be a sister product to my Opal Magic Mica Powders - so expect a different effect on dark and light surfaces!

Hi again my friends!
I'm happy to see ou here again!
I know that for most of us it is a very busy time - we are getting ready to meet our family and friends, make the Christmas food and just getting the whole festive mood on... but I'd like to take this minute to send you our best wishes and say huge THANK YOU to you all!


First of all - thank you for being here, visiting the blog, FB page, social media in general - you make this place full of life and give us all purpose of creating, inspiring, finding new ideas. I'm so proud and happy to see this place grow, fill with beautiful projects and be the source than many people go to, come back on the regular basis - this is what we were hoping for changing my personal blog into Finnabair website with tutorials, ideas and product information. It's hard to express how much I appreciate your support, presence, the constant flow of love I can feel coming our way from you - this is just priceless for me and I have to admit this is the best fuel to make me going!


I'd like to send huge thanks to a group of very special people who I'm sure you know very good already - my Creative Team Members, from present and past terms who are the most supportive, most talented and inspiring creative souls. I'm truly blessed to be able to work with them and I'm absolutely sure we wouldn't be where we are now if my Team wasn't on board!
This year we have our wonderful Brand Ambassadors joining us too - and I'm so grateful they decided to jump on my idea of making the Finnabair Family bigger. I'm sure you enjoy the classes, tutorials and everyday inspiration they are providing every day.
Thank you so much to you all!

We would like to wish you all a blessed Holiday time - quiet, filled with all that you need. We wish you love and peace, tonnes of positive energy, courage to create whatever your heart will tell you and great people around you who will give you support when you need it the most. I hope you will find time to play, to enjoy whatever you like to do - taking time for yourself is so important!

Here you've got some peeks at the decoration we've made this year - how do you like my rose-decorated Christmas Tree? I had a great time working on this design...


... and speaking about the designs - would you like to have a look at the first release of products which are going to hit the shelves very soon?
Beautiful, metallic, wax-based paste which will turn your artwork into a real treasure while adding amazing, rich, metal-like finish to most surfaces and elements. Great for applying with your fingers, sponges, and soft cloths. Perfect for adding color and finishing touches to mixed-media and home décor projects. Metallique Wax has a permanent finishing cover giving you great, color-filled, shiny results on dark and light backgrounds.


Marvelous wax-based paste offering you two great effects in one product! Opal Magic Wax has a special opaque, yet permanent finish. It will give you color-filled, shiny results on dark surfaces; and delicate, pearled iridescence effects on lighter backgrounds. Both will turn your artwork into a real treasure! Great for applying with your fingers, sponges, or soft cloths. Perfect for adding color and finishing touches to mixed-media or home décor projects. Works on most popular surfaces and elements.

Good to see you here again.
I'm back today with one of my CHA projects - some of you could see it visiting Prima booth or in one of the videos which were taken during the show. I had a great time creating it - can you imagine the joy of unpacking your very own designs, touching the packaging, ripping it apart and having your pieces of joy in your hands? (insert deep sigh here...)

This mixed-media collage on the wooden panel can be easily translated to a scrapbook page too - my good advice your be to prime the paper with layer of gesso first and using thicker background - the whole composition is rather heavy!



There are TONS of new product included - you can see some of the new Mechanicals - hearts, screw heads and cogs, there is well hidden new Art Ingredient: Texture Powder which I used to create this beautiful, mint tone texture paste... and there is more!



All the colour here except the tea splatters which I've made with my home made tea stain are in fact my brand new Art Alchemy products - Pixie Dust shimmering sprays and Opal Magic acrylic paint. You can tell, I am really addicted to mica powder and shimmer - I can't imagine a single project without a bit of shine! Just look at this beautiful, delicate opalescent finish on the little stones and Sandra Evertson's resin wing (I took it out from one of Relics and Artifacts packs!).



Most of the new products - except the Pixie Dust sprays will be available in your local shops from the end of January (USA) and mid-February (other countries).
We will stock them all in our Mixed Media Place Store of course, but make sure you will check with your local retailer - maybe they need a small hint... or they ordered it already?



Make sure you will check this space on Friday - brand new tutorial is coming and... you know what?
Check my Social Media spaces: FB page, Instagram and Finnabair and Friends Open Studio group for some giveaways which are coming soon ;)

sending best wishes

Hi again my dear friends!
I've just got back from the most amazing, creative and...busy place on this planet which was of course Winter CHA 2016 in California! Again I had a chance to work with a group of friendly, supportive people in our beautiful Prima booth and present my new Art Babies to the world... huge thanks to you all who took the time to come, stop by to watch my demo or just say hi. You made me feel so special!
I know there is a large group of you who would like to see how our booth or the whole show looks like... and here comes modern technology to help!

Encouraged by many and with a huge help of my friends I tried to do my first ever Periscope for you all - and I was even able to record it and upload on my You Tube. Great success for the beginner, huh? So, if you'd like to have a look at live-recorded products introduction and mini demo - you can see it here or subscribe to my You Tube channel :)



If you like the idea of Periscope App (works both on Android and Apple) you can start following me to be up to date with my latest ideas, travels and news - just a hint: Frankfurt show - Paperworld 2016 is coming!





See you soon - and don't forget to check new tutorials of my fabulous Creative Team this Monday and Friday too!
sending hugs

I simply can't wait to hear from you what you think about my new products!
Do you have your favorite yet?
Keep an eye on Prima blog as there are more sneak peeks of my new line coming soon!

I hope these beauties gave you some appetite for more, as of course there is A LOT more coming!
I'll be back with more sneak peeks very soon, so stay tuned!!!

Sending you warmest hugs from windy and rainy Ireland

Hi there people, it's me again!
I hope you have a great creative weekend - myself I'm struggling to find motivation to do something more creative than just editing and putting things from one lace to another - I guess you have to blame wonderful moody weather outside! But I can feel there's anew project coming... it's just around the corner or maybe a few good cups of tea away! :)

First of all - thank you for this amazing response to my Giveaway. We've reached almost 400 comments which is a huge number. Wow. Thank you for visiting my blog and taking time to participate! You are so loved!
Reading your comments I've noticed that idea of Art Basics and Art Ingredients working together is new to many of you - which is great, as you will have a lot of fun playing, experimenting and discovering the possibilities just like me :) There were also the questions from you - mostly: where to start? Here I can help!

I think the best way will be to take a cup of tea, coffee or any other during you prefer and have a peek into my Art Files: Tutorial Videos section of the blog. I've updated it today for you adding all the new demos and techniques which were taped in the last couple of months. I'ts all waiting for you!


My second suggestion will be following our great Creative Team blog posts with tutorials - posted every Monday and Friday here and follow my Art Recipe Wednesday - my own projects with product info, some visual inspiration and tips and step-by-step information for anyone to try! There is also our You Tube Channel if you want to stay tuned and find our CT Videos with ease. Check it out!


My next tip will be following Prima You Tube Channel - my products are being used by many of the artists showing their tutorials during Live with Prima shows - why not subscribing and following the on FB too?


I hope my suggestions will be helpful and you will dig a bit in the sources to get some information and inspiration out of them!

To give you a good start I've got 2 brand new videos - demos I've made for Scrapbook Expo during Winter CHA 2015 featuring my new Art Ingredients of course: Mica Powders and Micro Beads!






Keep your eyes open guys, something is telling me there will be more prizes to win very soon...
sending hugs