January 2016 Mid Month Reveal

Welcome to the Mid Month reveal. 

Luciana

Here is a sneek peak of Luciana's layout please come back on the 17th to see the full layout and tutorial

 Sandi

Tracey

Candy

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Simple Stamping with Narelle

This is a Happy Life

The vintage colours and photo theme made me straight away go to my old photo's from my childhood.  

I still have quite a few to scrap as I find the sizing of them tricky sometimes or the faded quality from poor storage hard to colour match.
Any way I found a couple of lovely old black and white ones that I thought would be perfect for this mood board.

I started with a nice blue card stock and using an old shop card I applied some yellow acrylic paint by dragging it across the page from the middle out to both sides.

Then I got some red acrylic paint (dylusions in this case) and a couple of different size paper rolls and applied some circles to my background.

I then added some rub ons and tissue paper to build up the background. I coloured my chipboard title with Posca pens.

I matted my old retro photo's onto black card stock and used magic mount to raise them up a bit.

By the way I am the eldest child sharing that wading pool with my brothers and sister. 
thanks for looking

Tracey

Among The Birds

Hi Everyone,

Today I am going to give you a step by step on a recent page I taught.

You will need 1 x plain white card stock and a pack of Prima Garden Fable chipboard and more.

I have also used 

LARGE-CHICKEN-WIRE-PIECE-WOW19126X6-LACE-FRAME-WOW2255

Other items you will need....

Water spritz bottle

white gesso

paint brush

Acrylic inks Pink,sky blue,deep violet, vivid lime green

Lindy's stamp gang Bodacious blush, sweet purple teal.

glossy accents or dimensional magic.

Instructions

First step is to attach your chicken wire to the background and then paint over with the white gesso. Let dry.

Cover your square frame with gesso and dry.

Spritz with water then using acrylic inks lime,sky blue and pink drop randomly over your frame and let dry.

Now your background is dry spritz with water, not all over, just in random places. Use a small amount of inks pink and lime green and move your page around to disperse colour. If it is too dark in any place just hit it with some more water to dilute it.

Dry off with heat gun or set aside to dry naturally.

Next spray across your layout from bottom corner to top corner with Lindy's Bodacious blush. Dry.

Add some drips and splatz with the purple ink and the Lindy's sweet violet purple teal. Dry.

Now you can layer all your elements, I have put some things under the frame and some over to give dimension.

I have used glossy accents to attach all the sequins, it is tedious but I haven't figured out a short cut for that yet.

Thanks for looking

Tracey

November's Mid Month Reveal

Are you having fun with our Mood Palette this month? It is all about recycling.

Shall we have a look at what the design team have created?

Tracey

Sandi

 

 

Romain

 

Tania

Louise

Carol

 

 

 Tanya

 

 

 

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Tips and Tricks For Adding Dimension

This is not so much a step by step or tutorial, I just thought I would let you know how I get the 3D looks onto my layouts.

Of cause my favourite go to is chipboard, but I have a couple of other tricks I like to use too.

Step one is to play around with positioning your elements when you are happy take a photo with your phone or camera so you can refer back to it when putting the pieces back on. I usually make changes as I go still but it gives me a good reference.

I have a couple of favourite products I use for added height. Scrap Dots is one I use a lot behind chipboard if it is not solid enough for foam tape.

Or if I want more height than I can get from foam tape.

Another item I use is good old cardboard box lids. I do not use it directly behind a photo always with a paper buffer. It allows me to have full coverage under the entire photo mat so there is no dips or blips in the layout later on when you look back at it.

Hope these come in handy for you.

Thanks for looking

Tracey

Mid Month Reveal - September 2015

It is that time again for the mid month reveal from the rest of this month pieces from our very talented Design Team. I am not really sure where this month has gone.

Sandi

Louise

Romain

  

 Tracey

Some amazing inspiration above, I hope that we will see your creation entered into our challenge.

Fantasy

The mood board that started it all....

That lead to this....

I started my layout on a piece of Kraft card stock, I painted from the centre brushing upwards and downwards, randomly not total coverage, with clear gesso.

 I did this to get better drippage, (spell check doesn't think this is a word PFTTT), with the spray.

Pool your colour of choice across the middle of your layout and then rock it up an down to get the spray to run.

Set aside to dry or use a heat gun if you are inpatient.

Take your chipboard piece, in this case wings, and apply a coat of Tim Holtz crackle paint.

Let it dry naturally.

On your dry background put some pencil marks where your photo and frame are going to sit.

This gives you a guide as to where your next lot of background layers are going to go.

Next I took a template, some clear embossing ink in a dauber, and three embossing powder colours.

Using one colour at a time, I inked some circles through the template then added a colour, shook off the excess, then heat set it.

You can put as many circles as you like.

I used Aged gold embossing powder on the chipboard flourishes above and below the frame.

Back to the wings, I learnt this technique from a You tube tutorial. The lovely scrap booker sharing it I cannot remember her name, sorry. She came across it by mistake but loved the effect and shared it. It makes the cracks really big in the paint.

So what you do it cover your dried crackle paint with dimensional magic or glossy accents and let dry again. 

Once it is dry you apply another coat of your crackle paint and sit back and watch the magic.

When these are dry attach them to your layout and add your finishing touches, some seed beads to the frame and chipboard butterfly using glossy accents.

Sequins to the back ground again I use glossy accents.

I used the background spray on the title letters.

And of cause some flowers.

Thanks for looking

Tracey