Seaside & Dreams: Dt post for Scrapmatts

Hello my happy crafters and fabulous followers...
This month I bring to you a layout featuring my daughter
and one of her besties and a trio of tags inspired by the
seaside location where I live.

FOLLOW
Your Heart & Dreams

Beginning with a nice floral paper I chose to place the

focal point near to the centre inside an Ornate Frame and decorated

the radiating surrounds with a combination of

Page Borders & Leaf Sprays

 

The Page Border was dissected and utilised about the layout with

one part being decorated with a pearl as a topper.

 

The flowers were bunched with a collection of paper straws and skewers

and bound with florist wire and string.

A number of hearts were embossed to match some of the

earthy tones of the flowers as well as a way to introduce texture.

Scrap Words are always a great way to include a title on many types

of projects and although these great friends are now separated

by distance they both know they must Follow their Heart & Dreams.

Scrapmatts
CB4063 Leaf Spray 13
CB5001 Ornate Frame 01
CB2007 Page Borders 06
CB6113 Scrap Words 32
CB1159 Hearts 05

FMS Black Ink
Pearl Embellishment
Stampendous – Shabby Pink
Patterned Paper
Flower Posies - WOC Flowers, Paper Straw, String
Florist Wire, Skewer

Seaside Tag Trio

Digging through my stash I found a few jumbo tags and

instantly thought about marrying some of Scrapmatts lovely seaside

chippies with them...The height would fit nicely with lighthouses.

Each of the tags were stenciled with different patterns to tone

down the glossy backgrounds that were already a part of the tags.

On this I used some of the very new Distress Oxides to bring out

some colour and not having used these before I wanted to sample

a fair selection of them and was pleased with the results.

Each tag was dressed with some fishing net and adorned with

a variety of Nautical Design chipboards.

Additional to this I used some serviette images to extend the theme.

The final touches were to add the lighthouses, sand and shells.

Scrapmatts
CB1221 Nautical Designs 04CB6064 Nautical Designs 01ST1002 DiamondsST1025 FeathersST1037 Bling
FMS
Distress Oxides – Vintage Paper, Spiced Marmalade
Worn Lipstick, Wilted Violet, Cracked Pistachio
Broken China
Tags, Rope, Sand, Shells, Netting & Serviettes

Thanks for stopping by

Make sure you pop back in a day or two or head over to the 

Scrapmatts Shop

 to check out the Design Teams amazing creations!

If you have creations using Scrapmatts products why not upload
them into the gallery?!

(We would love to see them!!) 

Until next time

Happy Crafting

X

Challenge 26 - Creative Artiste DT post

Hello Crafty Friends and Followers

It is that time again ...

Challenge 26 for

Creative Artiste Mixed Media

Our Awesome sponsor this month is

http://www.lindysgang.com

The Girls at Lindy's Gang have kindly donated a 
Gift Voucher for this month.

"Set Yourself Free" 

This month seeing that Lindy's are our sponsor I thought 
I would make a Canvas and pull out my favourite spray mists. 

I used a couple of stencils and once they were dry started 
to add colour via the LSG mists, then dried them off and they
were too dark for the look I was after so I made a mix of gesso and 
water to tone it down, until I was happy with the shades.

I used a couple of background stamps and give it another 
layer and smudged the bottom part of the stamp in the the
bottom lefthand corner and added some Champagne Mist to give
smudged shimmer look. 
  

I found some fabric wings and a chipboard mannequin in my stash, 

I covered both with thick white gesso and once they finally dried I covered the wings with the Lumiere - Pearlescent Magenta. They needed toning down as they were to vivid so out come the gesso again to tone that quite a bit down.

I added tiny amounts of pink to the mannequin, I also added quite a bit of Champagne mist onto some bubble wrap and dabbed it where I wanted it. I then dried it with the heat gun so it bubbled. 

 I punched some small Butterflies out of vellum and sprayed some LSG and dried with my heat gun and it made them curled.

Adding flowers in the bottom right corner to finish was all that was required

to achieve balance... 

Products Used
LSG – Passionate Plum, Jazzy Jivin’ Purple & Cotton Wool Candy
Brick Stencil, Swirl Stencil
Velum (Cut Into Butterflies)
Holographic Butterflies
Texture Paste, Chipboard Mannequin
Gesso, Background Stamp & Flowers
All Purpose Ink – Champagne Mist
Lumiere - Pearlescent Magenta, Halo Violet Gold

So there you have it, my project for this month...Hope you enjoyed it...

Please be kind and leave me some love,

join in and don't forget to become a follower.

Keep on Crafting!!!

Love & Friendship: DT post for Scrapmatts

Well, 2017 is in full swing and these challenges are enticing

the creativeness from within.

As a result I have a layout and a canvas to share with you all.

Being Autumn here and Spring in the north what better

theme to follow than something with flowers.

The "Garden of Love"

Dropping some texture onto the canvas is always a great place to start

and the creation of a wall for the background using the Bricks stencil

was a perfect match for what I envisaged.

Usually I would use modelling paste but I recently acquired some

Deco Art products and among the goodness was some

white crackle paste and what better to try it on than some bricks.

The background colour was created by adding Deco Art's

Media Shimmer Mister to the crackle paste.

Additional colours from the same products were added by mixing

the primaries to get the shades of green.

 

The central piece was constructed from various layers of distressed

patterned papers, cardstock, calico and muslin.

Atop this I placed a Large Ornate Frame to showcase the flowers

that were to be the focal point.

The Ornate Frame was embossed to give an aged look as were

the butterflies, central flowers, leaves and hearts.

Using the same product on all of these chipboards created both

texture and colour to deliver unity across the canvas.

Little clusters of flowers were distributed, some plain and some sprayed

to compliment the other layers.

The old metal heart along with the numerous smaller chipboard hearts

brings both garden and love together.

Scrapmatts
CB1009 Butterflies 09
CB1115 Leaves 01
CB6090 Ornate Frames 18
CB1159 Hearts 05
ST5013 Bricks

FMSLSG – Sea Mint Green, Incandescent Copper
Stampendous – Aged Hunter, Aged Teal, Aged Aqua

Shabby Pink, Shabby Blue
Black Ink
Patterned Paper & Cardstock
Muslin & Calico
Metal Heart
Flowers - WOC & 49 & Market St
Distress Stain – Brushed Pewter
Deco Art Media – Shimmer Mister Turquoise, Primary Yellow & Cyan

and White Crackle Paste

Friendship

Is Spending Fun Times Together

Needing an excuse to use some more crackle paste I wasted no time

in setting to work on a layout.

So, straight up I placed some patterned paper on some cardstock

and then set to it with some yummy crackle paste coloured with

complimentary Shimmer Mister Turquoise.

Atop the piece I placed some sneaky metallic silver sticks stencils to

simulate some abstraction of clouds.

Applied nice and thick gave a heavy crackle.

Under the photo I again took advantage of utilising some

packaging scraps to create some depth and adding the String Circles

and netting over them tied all elements together.

Some of the flowers were coloured with the same

Shimmer Mister as the crackle.

The chipboard Gears 01 & 05 and the bottle tops were enhanced

with a little rusting powder.

Chipboard leaf spray flourishes throughout the layout always

are a great addition to fill in blank spaces and in this case I chose

them as I thought they contributed to the outdoors type theme.

Here we can see the effectiveness of the chains as they both fill

in the spaces and compliment the netting by giving an outdoors

and somewhat playful feel.

The underside of the glass pebbles were simply painted with acrylic

After sifting through my stash of Scrap Words this title just jumped out at me and locating it near the ephemera background paper (shhh this was actually some packaging) seemed a good fit.

Scrapmatts
CB4063 Leaf Spray 13
CB5114 String Circles 01
CB1229 Chains 02
CB6112 Scrap Words 31
CB1072 Gears 01
CB1078 Gears 05
ST1021 String
ST1003 Sticks

FMS

Product Packaging Scraps (Ephemera)
Patterned Paper & Card Stock
Glass Pebbles

Rusting Powder
Flowers
Fishing Net
Deco Arts Media – Shimmer Mister Turquoise, Primary Cyan & Yellow
Cadmium Red, Interference Gold, Titanium White
Metallic Silver, White Crackle Paste

Thanks for stopping by

Make sure you pop back in a day or two or head over to the 

Scrapmatts Shop

 to check out the Design Teams amazing creations!

If you have creations using Scrapmatts products why not upload
them into the gallery?!

(We would love to see them!!) 

Until next time

Happy Crafting

X

Challenge 25 Creative Artiste DT post

Hello Crafty Friends and Followers

It is that time again ...

Challenge 25 for

Creative Artiste Mixed Media

Our Awesome sponsor this month is

and they have kindly donated a box of goodies similar to this.

Garden of love

Well, 2017 is in full swing and these challenges are enticing

the creativeness from within.

As a result I have a layout and a canvas to share with you all.

Being Autumn here and Spring in the north what better

theme to follow than something with flowers.

The "Garden of Love"

Dropping some texture onto the canvas is always a great place to start

and the creation of a wall for the background using the Bricks stencil

was a perfect match for what I envisaged.

Usually I would use modelling paste but I recently acquired some

Deco Art products and among the goodness was some

white crackle paste and what better to try it on than some bricks.

The background colour was created by adding Deco Art's

Media Shimmer Mister to the crackle paste.

Additional colours from the same products were added by mixing

the primaries to get the shades of green.

 

The central piece was constructed from various layers of distressed

patterned papers, cardstock, calico and muslin.

Atop this I placed a Large Ornate Frame to showcase the flowers

that were to be the focal point.

The Ornate Frame was embossed to give an aged look as were

the butterflies, central flowers, leaves and hearts.

Using the same product on all of these chipboards created both

texture and colour to deliver unity across the canvas.

Little clusters of flowers were distributed, some plain and some sprayed

to compliment the other layers.

The old metal heart along with the numerous smaller chipboard hearts

brings both garden and love together.

Scrapmatts
CB1009 Butterflies 09
CB1115 Leaves 01
CB6090 Ornate Frames 18
CB1159 Hearts 05
ST5013 Bricks

FMS

LSG – Sea Mint Green, Incandescent Copper
Stampendous – Aged Hunter, Aged Teal, Aged Aqua

Shabby Pink, Shabby Blue
Black Ink
Patterned Paper & Cardstock
Muslin & Calico
Metal Heart
Flowers - WOC & 49 & Market St
Distress Stain – Brushed Pewter
Deco Art Media – Shimmer Mister Turquoise, Primary Yellow & Cyan

and White Crackle Paste

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

Rhedd's Creative Spirit - Altered Art/Mixed media
Creative Embellishments - Inspired by the colours
Crafting by Design - Anything Goes
Crafty Creations - Anything Goes
Double D Challenges - Neons/Brights
Altered Eclectics - Mixed Media/Altered Art


So there you have it, my project for this month...Hope you enjoyed it...

Please be kind and leave me some love,

join in and don't forget to become a follower.

Keep on Crafting!!!