Friday 15 February 2019

Friends


This is a mini album which I did recently using the FabScraps C113 Book Club range.
I love the pinks and blues in this range and the images which perfectly depict the craziness and love between girl-friends.

Pretty blue and pink flowers and embellishments as well as some heat embossing completed this album ...

and, of course, place for lots of photographs so that not one friend goes unnoticed.






Hope you like it 💗
Until next time!

Adventure makes the heart smile


And what exciting adventures 2019 is bringing!
I was so thrilled and excited to be included in the Penelope Dee Brand Ambassadors design team for 2019.  What an honour to work alongside such amazing, talented ladies who love the brand just as much as I do.  My heart is indeed smiling 💗


With all the above excitement, I'd like to share my very first project for Penelope Dee using their Indigo range.  What beautiful papers!  I am in love with all the blues and, when planning my project, yellow was a perfect complementing colour to add.
I created the background of this single layout by first preparing the page with clear gesso, stenciling onto the one side with Prima White Crackle Texture Paste and then adding the crackle paste here and there to create texture.  Once this was dry, I added Fossilized Amber Distress Oxide onto the page, over the stenciling, and then lightly spraying with water so that it would run.



I then stamped onto the stencil with the Fossilized Amber Distress Oxide, lightly spraying it with water before placing it onto the other side of the layout and transferring the Distress Oxide onto the paper in order to get the reverse stencil on the paper.

The two windows were painted in a combination of  Fossilized Amber and Faded Jeans Distress Oxides.


The title, which was altered by removing the word “laughter” and adding the word “adventure”, as well as the chipboard flowers were heat embossed with a combination of Cornflower Blue and gold embossing powder.



Once everything had been added to the layout, I dry brushed white gesso onto the background as well as over the flowers and chipboard embellishments and then rubbed Vintage Gold Metallique Wax over those some of the embellishments.

Some art stones and gold micro beads were added using gel medium. 

A few splashes of Distress Oxides and white gesso and the layout was complete!

I hope that this layout has inspired you.
Until next time!
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Sunday 3 February 2019

Together


Hi everyone.  Summer is in full swing down in sunny Cape Town with a few heatwaves causing us all to melt.  Despite all the heat and the fact that we live so close to the ocean, we haven't been down to the beach once.  Crazy I know, but, even though I love to sit beside and watch the ocean, I'm not really a beach person.  Walking along the shores is okay once in a while, but it's not 
a favourite pastime of mine.

The pic in this layout is of my family during a spontaneous photoshoot and I love the pics that we got from it.

Even though I don't really like going to the beach, I love to do beach layouts.  I also love these 49 and Market papers (Island Paradise range) which I used for this single layout.


I used a lot of seashells, art stones, beads and flowers to create this layout, adding some splashes of blue ink and stenciling starfish onto the background.


The chipboard fishnet was heat embossed with silver embossing powder and then randomly painted with brown rust paste.


I brushed some white gesso onto the shells, flowers and embellishments and then added some extra pearls and splashes of white gesso to complete the layout.


Hope you like it! 

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