Back in time

 Hello creative friends.

It's a new day, a new month and a new year!
I would like to wish you all the very best for 2023.
May the new year bring you all your heart's desires.

I am sharing a new project as Design Team member
for 13arts created as inspiration for the
January Mood Board Challenge.

The 13arts challenge is a fun way to
explore different colours/themes that you
might not always choose and so give you
an opportunity to venture out of your
comfort zone.  Be inspired by this
new mood board, create a project of
your own and then submit it onto
INSTAGRAM only using 

the #13artsJan23.  There is an 

amazing prize for the winner who will 

also be invited to Guest Design 

for 13arts.

I created this canvas using ephemera 

from the BACK IN TIME collection 

as well as 13arts amazing mixed 

media products and mediums.

I prepared the background of my canvas by 

diluting 13arts Color Glows with water and then 

painting them onto the canvas, spraying 

with water to allow the product to move.  

Once it was dry, I combined 13arts Texture 

Powder with modeling paste and applied 

this to my canvas using a spatula, 

leaving it to dry to allow the 

cracks to form.  I used the same product 

to stencil around my canvas.

I also added some stenciling with a 

combination of gel medium and Tiger 

Eye Color Glow.

I painted the resin pieces with the Color 

Glows combined with Liquid 

Acrylic Medium, leaving them to dry 

before lightly brushing with white gesso.

I added metallic foil to the centre of my 

canvas and then layered the resin pieces 

with ephemera and transparent foil from 

the BACK IN TIME collection, 

adding the Tiger Eye Color Glow 

around my composition to create depth.

I hope that this project has inspired you to 

join the 13arts challenge this month.

Christmas Time

 Hello creative friends.
It is so hard to believe that another Christmas
has come and gone and that a brand 
new year is fast approaching.

I am sharing a new Christmas layout as
Design Team member for 2Craft Chipboard
with you all today using some of the
beautiful chipboards from the collection.

I prepared the clock face by colouring it with 

a burgundy ink and then lightly dusting it with 

gold embossing powder before heating 

with a heat gun.

The corner crackle was painted with green 

paint and then also lightly embossed with gold.

I love the little Santa gnomes and 

they were perfect for my layout!

I coloured one with burgundy ink and painted 

the other two with green paint.

These were also lightly heat embossed in gold.

The leaves were covered in the gold embossing 

powder before heating with a heat gun.

Some flowers, cut-outs and splashes of 

green paint completed my layout.

I hope that the new year is a good one for you 

and your families and that you find the 

time to be creative.

Summertime

Hello creative friends.

I am sharing a new double page layout as 

Brand Ambassador for Penelope Dee using the 

beautiful SUNKISSED collection.

I prepared the background of my layout by layering 

papers from the collection to form the backdrop 

for my photographs and embellishments.

I stenciled onto my layout using the 

co-ordinating stencil, a soft brush and a 

green metallic wax.

I painted my chipboard embellishments, 

including the title, with red ink and then, once dry, 

I lightly rubbed them with the green metallic wax.

I then layered my photographs together 

with the chipboard pieces as well as cut-outs 

from the collection.

I hope that this bright, summery layout has 

inspired you to create one of your own.

 

Tis the Season

Hello creative friends.

I am sharing a new mixed media Christmas 

project as Design Team member for 13arts 

using paper from the CHRISTMAS STORIES 

collection as well as some of my favourite 

13arts mixed media products 

and mediums.

I prepared the wooden panel by first painting it 

with white gesso.  I then applied gel medium 

along the edges before adding Rusty Bronze 

powder to the medium and then applying the 

rust reagent to the powder to allow the rust to form.

Once these products had dried, I mixed 

Texture Powder with white gesso and applied this 

medium onto the wooden panel, over some of the 

rust and allowed this to dry so that the 

cracks would form.

The little chipboard houses and trees were painted 

with brown as well as black watercolour powder 

paint diluted with water.

I also added some of the diluted black 

powder to the crackle paste on the wooden panel.

Chipboard pieces were painted with white acrylic 

ink.  I gave everything on my project a light 

dusting of white gesso and then, once dry, 

some pieces were lightly painted with 

gold glitter ink.

I hope that you all have a blessed Christmas.

 

Every summer has a story

 

Hello again creative friends.

I am sharing my new layout as Brand Ambassador

for Penelope Dee with you all using the 

bright and beautiful new SUNKISSED collection.

I tore papers from the collection to form the 

backdrop for my photograph and embellishments.

I added an avocado green paint to gel medium 

and stenciled around my main composition.

I painted my chipboard pieces with diluted 

green paint, dabbing off the excess.

Once dry, I added chipboards and embellishments 

from the cut-out sheet to frame my photograph.

Here are some closer-ups of the details 

on my layout ...

Thank you so much for stopping by.