Monday, 28 June 2021

Man


Hello creative friends.
The 13arts Design Team have been creating with foils over the last few days 
and I am sharing my project with you all today, a glass panel using foils as well as 
ephemera from the "Mr Handsome" and "Young and Free" collections.

I wanted to use the glass panel so that the foils were completely visible, 
no matter which side you looked at.

I stenciled onto the glass panel with a combination of gel medium and Tiger Eye Color Glow, 
spreading the medium with my spatula in places.
I then placed the foil of top of the medium and stenciled on top of the foil
with a combination of gel medium, Amber Color Glow and a small amount 
of Gold Glitter paint.

I painted the resin pipes with a combination of Tiger Eye Color Glow and 
Acrylic Medium and then, once the paint was dry, I lightly brushed them 
with white gesso, rubbing off the excess to give them an old, worn look.

Here are some close-up pics of my project ....





Some products used on my project include ...


I hope that you like this project and are inspired to create one of your own.
Until next time!
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Wednesday, 23 June 2021

Together

 


Hello creative friends.
I am sharing a new layout for 13arts with you today using paper and ephemera from
the beautiful "In Love" collection as well as 13arts products.


I wanted to create a soft, romantic layout using a pic of my parents on their 
honeymoon many, many years ago.

I stenciled onto the sides of my layout using bronze shiny powder mixed with gel medium
and then, when the medium was dry, I added blue watercolour paint, spraying with water so that
the colour would move through the stenciling.



My chipboard pieces were painted with the same blue paint and then lightly
rubbed with the coloured gel medium.


I layered ephemera from the collection with chipboard elements as well
as flowers to match the collection.


Light gold mika flakes completed my layout.


I hope that you like this layout and that it inspires you to create one of your own.
Until next time!
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Tuesday, 22 June 2021

The Story

 


Hi everyone.
I am sharing a recent project created as Brand Ambassador for Penelope Dee using the gorgeous, vintage Anthology collection.


I created an octagonal mini album this time, cutting paper to fit the album as well as 
using embellishments from the collection.

The resin books on the cover were painted with alcohol inks and then given gold touches 
here and there with gold gilding flakes.
I did this by applying sticky glue where I wanted to place the flakes and then, 
once the glue was sticky, I applied the flakes to the glue, brushing off 
the excess with a hard brush.


I also stenciled throughout the album using expanding mousse, drying the product 
with a heat gun to bring out the texture in the product.


Here are a few close-ups of the pages in the album ....






I hope that you like this mini album and are inspired to create one of your own.
Visit my LivingLife facebook page at
https://www.facebook.com/LivinglifeCreative
for a short video of this album.
Until next time!
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Monday, 7 June 2021

Heartfelt moments

 


Hi everyone.
I am sharing a recent single page layout as Brand Ambassador for Penelope Dee
using the beautiful Charlotte collection.


I love the bright orange and peach flowers in this collection as well as the beautiful 
background pages, especially the newsprint one which I used on my layout.
The oranges combined with the greens are a perfect colour combination!

I prepared the background of my layout by stenciling with embellishment mousse 
before adding the elements for my composition.


The chipboard frame was painted black and then I added sticky glue and gold gilding flakes, 
brushing off the excess flakes with a hard brush.


I added a resin book embellishment to my layout and coloured it with brown, rust 
and beige alcohol inks before adding sticky glue and gold gilding flakes,
following the same procedure as the frame above.


The rest of the layout included lots of fussy cut flowers and leaves from the collection.



I hope that you like this layout.
Until next time!
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Wednesday, 2 June 2021

Even broken wings will learn to fly again

 


Hi everyone.
I am sharing a project which I created as Design Team member for 13arts 
as inspiration for the June Mood Board Challenge.


When I prepared these wings with resin, they didn't come out how I had planned - 
weak in some parts and some parts broke when I took them out of the mould.  
It made me think about how our wings (figuratively speaking, of course), get damaged 
and broken by the things of life and how, having been knocked down, we have to 
find the time to heal.  With the right help and encouragement, 
broken wings can learn to fly again.

I altered three shadow boxes by first painting them with white gesso 
and then painting the frames with diluted green ink.
I then added stamping before applying gel medium with 
bronze shiny powder around the edges.
I cut paper for the inside of the boxes (the base as well as the sides) and applied 
the above products to them as well before adhering them inside the boxes.
I also added Rusty Bronze Powder onto the wings as well as around the frame of the centre box, adding the Reagent in order to make the powder react.
I love the effect of the rust powder and, the more Reagent that you add to the powder, 
the more rusty the effect.







Here are some close-ups of the details ...






Some of the products used on my project include ...


I hope that you like this project and feel inspired to create a project 
of your own for this challenge.

Follow 13 arts at
https://www.facebook.com/13artspl/
or on
https://instagram.com/13arts?igshid=u0fo8nsz0d6v to view the rules of the challenges
and for more DT inspiration.
Until next time!
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