Mystical Scrapbooks May Cyber Crop

Good morning

The May Cyber Crop is on this weekend over at Mystical Scrapbooks

You will find it here.

The theme for this month is 1, 2, 3. and there are three challenges.

The challenge my layout is created for is to use 1 piece of chipboard, 2 photos and a 3 word title.

Here is my layout

I have used Colour Blast Limited Editions and Love & Grace papers for this layout

I cut two 2" x 12" piece of Limited Edition - Real Deal

and tore a piece of Love & Grace - Portia to approximately 12" x 10"

Using the Portia paper I applied Modelling Paste through Dusty Attic's Criss Cross stencil

I sprayed Tattered Angels Chalkboard -Teal High Heel to three areas of the paper

and added water to help it to spread out over the page

A light spray with Docraft's Artiste Spritzing Ink - Mint 

adds a little visual dimension to the sprayed colour.

Using the Mint ink and DoCraft Spritzing Ink - Black Night, I added splatters to the background.

Once all of the mixed media was dry, I used StayzOn Jet Black Ink and 

Kazzaz - Life's Moments Background stamp 

to add random stamping to the layout.

I distressed and inked the two pieces of Real Deal paper and 

attached them to the top and bottom of my 

background piece to build it back up to 12" x 12"

I used the Black Night Spritzing ink and a brush to colour a frame 

from Memory Maze Junky Frame & Arrows chipboard pack.

I also sprayed the chipboard with Tattered Angels Glimmermist - Iridescent Gold.

The chipboard is attached to my layout using Art Glitter glue

I have used an emery board to file around the edges of my photos 

and matted them onto black cardstock.

Scrap cardboard was added to the backs of the photos 

before they were attached to the layout overlapping the chipboard.

To create the title I used Kaisercraft DD700 Alphabet Upper Case 

and Die-namics High Rise Numbers dies and black cardstock.

The final touch was to add some white splatters to the background. 

To do this I watered down some white acrylic paint and used my fan brush.

Here is my process video

I hope you enjoy watching it

Thank you for spending part of your day here with me today

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie

Off The Rails Scrapbooking May Challenge

Good morning

Today I am sharing the layout I created for the May challenge at Off the Rails Scrapbooking

The challenge for this month is Black & White with only one other colour.

I have chosen blue as my other colour

I have gone with a simple clean layout for this challenge.

The minimalist look seems to be appealing to me at the moment.

I have added Modelling Paste through TCW Chevron stencil 

to the centre section of my white cardstock background. 

I have not been too particular with this application 

as I am looking for a random type of feel.

My colour is added by spraying Tattered Angels Jazz Blue Glimmermist 

at the top of the page and using extra water spray 

to help it run down the centre of the layout 

over some of the Modelling Paste.

When everything was dry I used Kaisercraft's Grid stamp 

and StayzOn Jet Black ink to stamp randomly over the background.

The patterned paper is from 2007, it is by Imaginisce and is 

Striped Sophistication from the Black Tie Optional range.

I tore this into strips using my Deckle edged ruler.

I inked the edges of the strips after I had torn the edges down 

to create an assortment of lengths then 

attached them to my background using Art Glitter Glue

My black & white photos were printed with the white border and measure 3" x 4 1/2".

I have attached pieces of cardboard to the back of the photos before attaching them to my layout.

To embellish the page I have painted 

Scrapmatts CB5156 Triangles 01 chipboard with black acrylic paint.

I cut the chipboard into three pieces and attached it to my page along side each of my photos

I used my fountain pen to draw a double scribbly border around the page.

A little more detail was added to the background by splattering some of the 

Glimmermist and black acrylic paint lightly, mostly to the central area of the layout.

The title was cut from black cardstock using Kaisercraft's DD735 Uppercase Alpha dies.

Once it was attached to the layout using my t ruler, reverse tweezers and Art Glitter Glue

I coated it with Glossy Accents. This gives a beautiful glossy finish when it is dry

Here is my process video. 

I hope you enjoy watching it.

Thank you for spending part of your day here with me today

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie

Mystical Scrapbooks April 2022 Cyber Crop

Good morning

My layout today is for the April Cyber Crop over at Mystical Scrapbooks. You will find the crop here.

This month the theme is colour palettes and for this particular challenge you can choose any colour you like but your project has to be monochromatic, meaning you can use any number of shades of your chosen colour with a minimal amount of black and white.

I have chosen pink for my colour.

I have chosen Uniquely Creative's Serendipity patterned papers to use today

I started with white cardstock for my background

I added Modelling Paste coloured with Starfish Glimmermist through TCW Two Hearts stencil.

This added a lot of pink to the background and minimised the white.

I splattered the background with Artiste Spritzing Ink in Black Night, Glimmermist Cherub Pink and Glimmermist Iridescent Gold

The final addition to the background was random stamping using Versafine Onyx Black Ink and Kazzaz Reason Season Lifetime, Kaisercraft Grid and Kaisercraft Numbers stamps.

I cut two strips of deep pink and two strips of pale pink cardstock to 1/2" x 12, inked the edges with my Versa Color Black Ink cube and attached them to each other with the light pink on top and about 1/4" of the dark pink showing above it.

I added a torn strip of pink washi tape to each of these strips and a pice of pink glitter washi layered on the first washi tape.

These were attached to the top and bottom of my page.

Time now to start with my patterned papers. 

I cut:-

Serendipity - Adore - 10 1/2" x 2"

Serendipity - Providence 1 1/4" x 12" and 3/4" x 12",

I used the floral side for the 1 1/4" piece and the woodgrain side for the 3/4" piece

I inked the edges with my black ink cube

I used double sided tape to attach these to the centre of my layout, layering them on top of each other, widest paper on the bottom working up to the narrowest paper.

I also added two small strips of the glitter washi so they will poke out from 

behind the photo when I attach it.

I am using a 6" x 4" photo, I have filed around the edge of the photo with an emery board before attaching it to a 6 1/4" x 4 1/4" piece of the dark pink cardstock.

To give my photo some lift I have added a piece of sticky backed craft foam before attaching it to the layout slightly above centre.

To embellish my layout I have fussy cut a doily from Serendipity - Carefree and selected several items from Uniquely Creative's Gums & Roses Creative Cuts pack.

I have inked the edges and attached them to my layout

The title is a tag from the Creative Cuts pack, I have added some pink ribbon and attached it to the layout with sticky backed craft foam behind it

Here is my process video if you would like to check out

Don't forget to check out the Cyber Crop, they are always fun and there are prizes to be won.

Thank you for spending part of your day here with me today

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie

Design Team project for Mystical Scrapbook's April Challenge

Good morning to you,

how are you today?

Today I am sharing the layout I created using one of the two colour palettes 

over at Mystical Scrapbooks for their April challenge.

This is the colour palette I am using

and here is my layout

I have used Uniquely Creative's The Story Garden papers for this layout.

I cut a 1" frame from a 12" piece of Character to create the page frame.

A piece of English Rose was trimmed to 11 1/2", the edges were inked using a 

Versa Color black ink cube and the two papers were attached 

to each other using double sided tape.

Using Cadence MU-13 Stencil and my palette knife I added Modelling Paste randomly to the background.

I used Gesso to coat a frame from Memory Maze's Junky Frames & Arrows chipboard set.

When this was dry I coloured it using Glimmermist, colour Starfish.

My photo is 5' x 7", I cut two mats for the photo, 

one from Stories that is 5 1/2" x 7 1/2" and 

one from Character that is 6" x 8".

I used an emery board to file around the edge of the photo 

before inking around the edges of all of the layers and attaching them to each other.

I also added a layer of sticky backed craft foam to the photo panel

I fussy cut all of the elements from Marvellous and the Cut a Part sheet and inked the edges.

Time now to assemble my page

I added the chipboard first and then the photo.

I then played around with the placement of all of the fussy cut elements 

and once I was happy with the layout I used my Art Glitter glue

 to attach everything to the page.

I used a Uniball Eye black fineline pen to draw a scribbly border around my page 

and write the date the photo was taken on one of the tabs at the top of the photo.

The title was cut from the Characters paper using my Apple Blossom Large Numbers & Suffixes die.

The title is attached at the bottom left of the photo.

A coat of Glossy Accents was added to the title and 

the gold locket amongst the photo cluster at the bottom right of the photo.

A coat of Wink of Stella clear shimmer pen to all of the flowers finishes this layout.

Here is my process video if you would like to see this page come together.

I hope you enjoy watching it

As always I appreciate you spending part of your day here with me today

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie

 

Art Journal Page

Hi there

Today I am sharing my latest art journal page.

I have used two pages from my Happy Planner notebook.

I have glued them together and given one side of the page a coat of white Gesso

To colour the background I have applied Gelatos and blended them using my finger.

I have used 

Lemon

Gold Champagne

Tangerine 

and Grape

My next layer is random stamping with StayzOn Jet Black Ink 

and a background stamp that I don't know the name or brand of.

You can see the stamp in the video if you are interested to see what it looks like

Next layer for the background is Modelling/Texture Paste through a Mandala stencil

To create the hearts I applied Paper Mill Alcohol Inks to a sheet of Gloss Photo paper 

and used my air puffer to move the ink around.

The inks I used are

Lemon Yellow Shimmer

Burnt Orange Metallic

Silver Metallic

Gold Metallic

Rolling Waters Metallic

Purple Sequin Metallic

Silvery Metallic

and Penny Loafer Metallic

Once the inks were dry I used my Cutterbee scissors 

to cut an assortment of sizes of heart shapes from the card.

These were attached to my page using Matt Medium, being careful 

not to smudge the background, as I had not sealed it.

Watered down white acrylic paint was splattered all overt the page next

I drew a sketchy line just inside the edge of each of the hearts 

and a scalloped decorative border around the outside of each heart.

A sketchy boarder was also added to the edges of the page.

The quote is from the internet, I printed it onto copier paper,

trimmed it and added it to the page using Art Glitter glue.

I used my black Fudeball pen to draw a sketchy border around the quote.
 

Here is my process video

Thank you for spending part of your day here with me today

If you have any questions or suggestions please leave them in the comments

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie

Three Christmas cards using Uniquely Creative's Holly Jolly papers

Good morning

Today I am sharing three more Christmas card.

These cards are in the more traditional colours and I have used a 6" paper pack of 

Uniquely Creative's Holly Jolly Christmas.

All three cards are 5" square and have been cut from 240gsm smooth white cardstock.

All of the papers on these cards have had their edges inked using a black ink cube.

Let's start with 

Card No. 1

I have cut the red plaid paper to 4 3/4" square and a piece of white cardstock 4 1/2" square

I placed my white cardstock on my Scoreboard and scored every 1/8" 

for about an inch to add some interest and texture to the panel.

The circular tags and the sentiment are from the Creative Cuts pack.

I used my Spellbinders Classic Scalloped Circles Large die

to cut two matts from Core'dinations Rouge cardstock to back the circular tags.

I punched a hole through the cardstock and threaded some white crochet cotton through the tags.

These were then attached to the card front with some scrap chipboard behind them.

I placed a red brad in each of the hole in the sentiment before attaching it to the card. 

The final touch was to add two clusters of 3 Picket Fence Moonshine sequins

 to the sentiment for a little sparkle.

Card No. 2

I cut a piece of the Rouge cardstock 4 3/4" square, 

a piece of Gold mirror card 4 3/8" square 

and a piece of patterned paper 4" square

 and attached these to my card front.

I fussy cut an assortment of poinsettia and holly leaves from one of the patterned papers,

shaped them with my flower shaping tool

and attached them to the bottom curve of the wreath on the patterned paper.

I used my Memory Box Snowflake Ornament die and gold mirror card

 to create a gold ornament to attach at the centre top of the patterned paper. 

Before I attached it though, I added a short length of metallic string in gold

and tucked the end of it behind the patterned paper layer.

The sentiment was cut from one of the patterned papers and matted on some of the Rouge cardstock.

I added a small piece of chipboard to the two end of the sentiment before attaching it to the card front so it would sit level over the metallic string.

The sparkle for this card was created by using 

Scrapbook.com's Pop of Colour in Glittering Champagne

in the centre of each of the fussy cut flowers.

Card No. 3

I had a change of heart during the creation of this card.

I cut the patterned paper to 4 3/4" square, 

distressing the edges using my Distress Tool before inking them.

The 4 1/2" piece of white cardstock received the same treatment to its edges.

I used Kaisercraft's Christmas Tree mini stencil and Mont Marte Modelling Paste

 to add a textured tree to the white cardstock.

While the stencil was still in place I covered it with Spellbinders Sparkle Dust Glitter.

This gave me a beautiful sparkly Christmas tree BUT it got lost on the white cardstock.

The sentiment is a Rub On that I have applied to white cardstock 

and matted on the same patterned paper I used as a layer on the front of my card. 

This was attached to the front panel with craft foam behind it.

I also added craft foam behind the patterned paper of the front panel before I attached it to the card base.

I used a fine black pen to draw a scribbly boarder around the white cardstock panel and the sentiment.

I still felt that the tree was getting lost so I placed the stencil back over it and added a coat of Pops of Colour Glittering Gold. This did the trick and the tree is now a stand out embellishment.

Here is my process video

Thank you once again for spending part of your day here with me today

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie

All that Sparkles Art Journal page

Good morning, good morning

In today's post I would like to show you a very simple art journal page I created.

I haven't used my Gelatos for ages and wanted to get them out.

I love how creamy they are and how easy they are to apply.

I used an 8 3/4" x 8 1/4" sheet of 216gsm watercolour paper. 

I punch four holes down one of the 8 1/4" edges 

and hold my pages together using jump rings.

I only use one side of the paper and on the back I write the products I have used on the page.

I have covered the whole page with Tim Holtz Tissue Wrap - Melange, 

which I have attached using Satin Mod Podge. 

I ran my Brayer over the tissue to ensure it is well stuck and there are no creases.

I usually use mat medium for this type of thing but I have the Mod Podge in my stash

 and want to use it up.

I selected Lavender, Guava, Lemon, Gold Champagne and Metallic Mint gelatos

and scribbled them randomly on top of the tissue.

I used a baby wipe to blend them.

I kept adding colour and blending until I was happy with my page.

As you can see from the colours selected I was going for a pastel background.

I used TCW stencil called Tile Texture to add some Modelling/Texture paste randomly to the page.

This dries white and gives the page a lift.

The focal points for the page are created by cutting stars from white cardstock using my 

Nellie's Multi Frame Star die and my Big Shot. I cut six in total, in an assortment of sizes.

To colour my starts I used Jane Davenport's Brights watercolour palette.

I sprayed the white cardstock stars with water and then used my 

water brush to add the purple watercolour pigment.

Once the watercolour was dry I stamped Kaszazz's Lifes Moments Background stamp,

with Versafine Onyx Black ink, to cover each star

The stars were attached to the page using Mod Podge.

I used my Stabillo All Pencil in black and my water brush to shade around each of the stars.

My quote was cut from black cardstock using Sizzix 662667 Alphabet die

 and attached to the page using Mod Podge.

I gave the quote a coat with my Wink of Stella Clear pen.

To add sparkle to the stars I brushed a coat of Nuvo Clear Drops - Morning Dew over each star.

This did not give the sparkle I was looking for so I added Spellbinders - Sparkle Dust Glitter.

As the Nuvo Drops were dry in some areas the glitter has stuck randomly

 to the stars, a look I am very happy with.

To finish my page off I added a scribbly boarder around the outside using my Fineliner bottle that holds slightly watered down black acrylic paint.

Here is my process video

As always, thank you for spending part of your day here with me today

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie