Beautiful

Hello creative friends.

I am sharing a new layout as Brand Ambassador 

for Penelope Dee with you all today using the 

beautiful new MEMOIRS collection.

I love the romantic feel of the pink and green florals 

and botanicals in this collection which suited 

my photograph perfectly.

I painted the chipboard embellishments in green 

paint mixed with white gesso to mute the green slightly.

Stenciling was done with Sage Green Distress Oxide 

to give a soft look.

Lots of fussy cutting from the cut-out sheets 

completed my layout.

I hope that his layout inspires you to create

one of your own.

 

Use your wings and fly

 

Hello creative friends.

I am sharing a new mixed media canvas 

as Design Team member for 13arts using the 

gorgeous, dramatic "Queen of the Night collection.

I prepared my wooden canvas by covering it with paper 

from the collection and then giving it a good coating 

of clear gesso, leaving it to dry completely.

I stamped onto the edges of my canvas and then

added Onyx Color Glow to gel medium, 

stenciling around my canvas and dragging the spatula 

up and down on my canvas until I was 

happy with the result.  

I added Texture Powder to white gesso to 

form a thick paste and then applied the paste along 

the left and right sides of my canvas, leaving the paste 

to dry completely to form the cracks.

I then mixed Garnet and Tiger Eye Color Glow 

together with gel medium, adding additional 

stenciling in some places.

I painted the round resin pieces in black gesso and 

then applied gel medium to them.

I lightly covered the gel medium with 

Rusty Bronze powder, shaking off the excess.

I then applied Reagent to the powder, 

leaving it to react with the powder. Once it was dry, 

I applied more of the Reagent to give the rust effect 

that I wanted.

Once I had added everything to my canvas, 

I added gel medium onto the canvas, below the

rusted elements and used the same process as above, 

allowing the Reagent to run down the canvas 

into the cracks of the paste.

Other pieces on my canvas were painted with 

black gesso and then lightly brushed with white gesso.

Once everything had been added to my canvas,

I lightly brushed florals and other embellishments

with white gesso.

I hope that this project inspires you to create one 

of your own with these beautiful 

13arts papers and products.

Dream

 

Hello creative friends.

I am sharing a new layout for 2Crafty Chipboard 

using some beautiful chipboards from the collection.

I love nature and the outdoors and wanted to 

create a forest, woodland layout to match my photograph.

I stenciled onto the background of my layout using 

gel medium and 13arts Golden Calcite Color Glow, 

dragging the product with my spatula onto my layout.

Some chipboards were painted with a combination of 

acrylic medium together with the same Color Glow.

The window shutters were painted with black gesso 

and then lightly brushed with green ink.  

I applied the same paint to the edges 

of the fern leaves.

I layered the chipboard and other embellishments 

with flowers to create depth.

Chipboards used on my layout include

I hope that this layout inspires you to create your own 

with these beautiful chipboard pieces.

Take time to take time

Hello creative friends.

I am sharing another layout as Brand Ambassador for Penelope Dee

using the beautiful new SIENNA collection.

I love the Autumn shades of this collection and my  

photo matched the papers perfectly!

I cut the woodgrain paper from the collection 

and adhered it to the floral paper.

I chose to not do any mixed media and stenciling 

on my layout this time, but instead painted 

a few resin pieces in black gesso and then 

lightly rubbed them with orange wax.

I fussy cut elements from the cut-out sheet

and adhered these around my layout and

around my around my main composition.

I also used a few of the chipboard and leather

embellishments from the collection.

I hope that this layout inspires you to 

create one of your own.

 

Hi everyone.

I am sharing a new layout as inspiration for the 13arts

April mood board challenge with you all today.

The monthly mood board challenge at 13arts is a fun way to explore different 

colours and themes that you might not always choose and so give you 

an opportunity to venture out of your comfort zone.

Visit 13arts' page on Instagram for the rules of the challenge, 

but remember that there is an amazing 13arts prize to be won 

and don't forget to use the #13artsApr22.

I stamped onto the edges of one of the sheets 

from the collection with embossing ink 

and then added white embossing powder to the 

stamped images, shaking off the excess powder 

before heating it with a heat gun.

I then cut another sheet from the collection and 

raised and adhered it to the pink paper, lightly 

distressing some of the edges.

I also tore some of the edges which I had 

cut off the one sheet and adhered these 

ound my main page.

I prepared the background of my main page by applying 

white gesso mixed with Texture Paste and leaving it to 

dry naturally in order to bring out all the cracks.

I also added stenciling to the bottom of the page

beneath my main composition.

Once the paste and stenciling was dry, I added 

pink and coral watercolour paint to the page,

spraying lightly with water to allow the colour

to run down the cracks and stenciling.

Chipboard pieces were heat embossed with

white embossing powder.

I hope that this layout inspires you to create one 

of your own with these amazing 13arts products.