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!
💛