Home sweet home

Hello creative friends.

The 13arts' Home Sweet Home collection is definitely one of my favourites.

I love the colour combinations on the papers and embellishments ... 

a very cozy collection, with a boho feel.

I have created a single layout as Design Team inspiration using papers and ephemera from the collection as well as 13arts mixed media products.

See if you can spot the shaker box on my layout 😊

I combined Rose Quartz Color Glow with gel medium to stencil onto my layout.

I then added gold glitter to gel medium and stenciled here and there

on top of the pink stenciling, dragging some of the product down my layout

with a spatula.

Chipboard embellishments were painted with Solidate Color Glow, lightly brushed 

with white gesso and then splashed with Rose Quartz Color Glow.

Some of the products used include the following ...

I hope that you like this layout and are inspired to create one of your own

with these beautiful products.

Until next time!

💙

 

Back in time

 

Hello creative friends.

I am sharing my new project for 13arts with you all today using papers and ephemera 

from the stunning new "Back in Time" collection.

I used some chipboard clocks from my stash for this project and painted 

the larger one with Cairo Night Color Glow combined with acrylic medium 

and the smaller one with Rose Quartz Color Glow. 

I then heat embossed the large clock with pink/gold embossing glitter before 

backing it with paper from the collection. The small clock was backed with 

a different paper before adhering it to the centre of my project.

Before adhering both clocks to the patterned paper, I combined the Rose Quartz

Color Glow with gel medium and lightly applied it around the papers,

dragging my spatula downwards over some of the stenciling and giving the papers

a grungy look.

The resin branches and clock in the centre of my project were painted with 

the same Color Glows combined with acrylic medium, first the blue and then, 

once dry, the pink.

I used pieces from the Ephemera pack to construct my main composition, 

raising some above others to give a 3D effect.

I hope that you like this project 

and are inspired to create your own with these beautiful products.

Until next time!

💗

You are the treasures in my ocean breeze

Hi everyone.

I am sharing a single layout with you all today as Brand Ambassador for Penelope Dee

featuring the beautiful Ocean Blue collection.

I prepared the background of this layout by tearing paper from the collection and then 

adhering it across the centre of my main page.

I cut strips of  gold glitter paper and adhered these across my page to resemble "waves".

I stenciled onto my layout with blue expanding mousse, applying gold embossing powder 

to the mousse while it was still wet and before heating with a heat gun.

The title was coloured with diluted expanding mousse.

Elements from the cutout sheet completed my beach layout.

I hope that you like this layout and are inspired to create your own.

Until next time!

💙

 

Fairytale

 

Hello creative friends.

I am sharing a project which I created as Design Team member for 13arts 

as inspiration for the October Mood Board Challenge.

I was inspired by the greens and ambers in the mood board so used paper from the 

beautiful new Aurora collection which was perfect for the colour combination.

I stenciled onto the paper, around my composition, with a combination of 

Andalusite Color Glow and gel medium, using the star stencil from the same collection.

The resin pieces were painted with a combination of Jadeite and Andalusite Color Glows 

combined with Acrylic Liquid Medium and then, once dry, I added

Amber Color Glow and Liquid Medium here and there.

Once all mediums were dry, I added sticky glue randomly to the pieces, waiting for it to 

dry a bit before adding foil.

The title and half moon were heat embossed in white.

Once everything had been added to my layout, I added diluted Amber Color Glow 

around my composition.

Some of the 13arts products used included the following ...

I hope that you like this layout and are inspired to create your own.

Until next time!

💛

Ocean View

Hello creative friends.

I am sharing a recent canvas created as Brand Ambassador for Penelope Dee

using the stunning new Ocean Blue collection.

I created the background for this project by tearing papers from the collection and 

layering them onto the canvas.

I then stenciled onto the paper using blue expanding mousse, applying some 

of the product between the folds of the papers.

I used a wooden embroidery hoop on the project and painted it with brown and red 

rust pastes to give it an old and weathered look.

The chipboard elements were painted with orange and then, once it was dry, 

lightly misted with blue gloss spray.

This project included a LOT of fussy cutting and I love how these 

elements look once added to the project.  I created some octopus tentacles protruding 

from all of these cut elements by rolling air dry clay, positioning them onto 

my project and then adding beads into the clay to look like little suckers.

I hope that you like this project and are inspired to create your own.

Until next time!

💙

 

Hello Spring

 

Hello creative friends.

In our country, we are well into the season of Spring.  The flowers are blooming everywhere, 

the sun is rising earlier and the birds are singing a cheerful song.

I am sharing a Spring project which I created with the Baroque Garden frame 

from SnipArt as well as papers and ephemera from the Pastel Spring 

collection from 13arts.

I decorated the box frame by painting it with a combination of 13arts "Sky Blue" 

watercolour powder combined with white gesso to give it a very pale blue colour.

Once this was dry, I mixed the same blue into modeling paste together with 13arts 

texture powder and applied this medium to the top layer of the frame.  

This gave a lovely texture to the top of the frame.

Once it was dry, I mixed Bronze and Rose Violet Red Shiny Powder with gel medium 

and, using a spatula, lightly applied this over the texture paste.

For the final layer, I randomly added sticky glue onto the frame, leaving it to dry slightly.

Once it was sticky, I applied a bronze foil onto the glue to give the frame a shimmer.

I than added all the layers of paper and ephemera into the box of the frame.

I hope that you like this project and are inspired to create your own.

Until next time!

💗

Dance and be happy

 

Hello creative friends.

Today I am sharing a new layout created for 13arts

using the gorgeous new Carmen collection.

I love the dance elements in this collection which went perfectly with this pic of 

my daughter during her ballet days.

I prepared the background of this layout by combining the new Goldstone 

Color Glow as well as Old Gold paint with gel medium and then stenciled where 

I wanted my compositions to be, dragging my spatula down 

my layout here and there.

I added elements from the Ephemera pack around my main composition to 

complete my layout.

I hope that you like this layout and are inspired to create one of your own.

Until next time!

💗