Dear All!
Welcome to the Mixed Media World! We have an amazing Star Designer for you today, her work is admired the world over and we are so delighted that she could be here with us, so that she can share some arty secrets with you, but also share her incredible work.
I'd like to welcome Riikka Kovasin of Paperiliitin to Mixed Media World.
Riikka's work is truly inspiring, ranging from scrapbook layouts, altered art, ATC's, canvases, the list goes on, her talent is seriously impressive! This is also shown by the teams she currently designs for:
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Here we have arranged an interview with Riikka:
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Riikka's work is truly inspiring, ranging from scrapbook layouts, altered art, ATC's, canvases, the list goes on, her talent is seriously impressive! This is also shown by the teams she currently designs for:
- Craft Stamper Magazine
- Mixed Media Place
- 7 Dots Studio
- Cinnabar Creative Team
- ScrapFX
- Artists Live
- Prima Marketing
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Here we have arranged an interview with Riikka:
What
inspires you most to create? / Where does your inspiration come from?
Everything around me can inspire.
There’s not just one source but usually many.
The most common sources are photos
and memories I want to preserve, the products I’m using or something new I’ve
just acquired. But it really can be anything! A texture I saw, a color combo or
a new technique.
Inspiration is something that
intrigues me and I’ve started to write a series of post connected to that. They
are found here.
Do you
pre plan your pieces, or are they often the result of just 'going with the
flow'?
Most of the times they are results of
the flow. Of course if I’m doing a piece for a sketch challenge I try to plan a
little ahead and follow the sketch. And the dimensional pieces often have an
idea behind them, like a sketch in my head but usually the pieces still evolve
as I craft.
What
is your favourite medium to work with?
There are many mediums I’m drawn to.
One of those is mists, other one paint media like gesso and acrylic paint. I
often have “phases” when I use a medium in almost all my pieces and then it
gets substituted by another. But if I’d have to pick one, I would probably go
with the gel medium or the 3D Gel as none of my dimensional piece would have
been made without it. The other one that I adore is the humble, simple pencil.
Do you
have a tool which you couldn't live without?
I’m an impatient crafter so I would
have to say my heat tool. Drying things overnight is really a challenge for me
as I would love to continue right away! The other musts are scissors, double
sided tape and paper cutter. I would be lost without the last one – it’s so
fast to cut pieces of patterned paper with a paper cutter!
What's
your craft space like?
My craft space is actually our living
room. Or a corner of it although I must say that I’m overtaking a bigger and
bigger area. It started as one bureau and now I have bureau, selves and a
trolley. This post is a year old, but if you wish to see my space here’s a link.
There’s a huge window in our living
room and I usually make my pages and crafts on top of the Expedit shelf placed
just under the window. I do most of my crafts standing as I walk about getting
stuff along the way. And I hold my heat tool in the bath room – it’s a kind of
relic from the time when the kids were small and I didn’t want to wake them
with the noise from the tool.
The videos and the Ustream shows I
make using our living room table on the other hand as it’s bigger than the top
of the Expedit shelf.
Do you
have a favourite colour combo?
I love blues, teals and minty greens
together! That’s my favorite go-to scheme. But I also enjoy pink with yellow. I
often like to use a touch of white and black in my crafts to really make other
colors pop.
What
is your favourite creation to date? (please provide a pic)
That’s really a hard one! There’s many crafts I like and
usually my favorite gets substituted with the next project I do. I guess my
three favorites at the moment are a layout done for Prima DT Call “XOXO”, an
altered guitar done for Finnabair Creative Team and a spring canvas done for
Mixed Media Place.
I usually list my favorites of that year in the turn of the
new year. If you want to see my 2014 favorites here’s a link to the post with
my top 12 projects (http://paperiliitin.blogspot.fi/2014/12/my-favorites-of-2014-other-projects.html).
The post also holds links to my favorite cards and layouts of 2014.
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Isn't it amazing to have an amazing sneak peek into Riikka's world?!! To learn how she creates, what inspires her and how she generally lives her arty life... Speaking of arty art, here are a few favourite pieces that Riikka has shared with us:
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I'd like to say a massive thank you to the lovely Riikka for being our Star Designer today, and I'm sure everyone will agree, it's been an absolute delight having you here! We feel very honoured!!
Thank you to all of you out there who read our posts and leave comments supporting us! You are amazing! Don't forget our current challenge STENCILS is still underway, which is being sponsored by That's Crafty, don't miss your chance to win! :)
Have a fabulous arty day,
Georgie xx
Have a fabulous arty day,
Georgie xx
