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Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Darkroom Door DT - Starry Night Large Stencil Layout

Today I have a layout to share featuring the fabulous new Starry Night Large Stencil. This is such a fun stencil perfect for so many different projects and co-ordinates so well with the Stars Rubber Stamp Set. I have created a grungy background for my layout using this versatile stencil.

‘Sydney’ Layout

If you would like to know how I created this layout please head over to the Darkroom Door blog HERE for a step by step tutorial.

Supplies used:

DDLS008 Large Stencil – Starry Night

DDBS050 Brushed Stars Background Stamp

DDRS026 Alphabet Medley Rubber Stamp Set

DDRS105 Sydney Vol. 1 Rubber Stamp Set

DDRS109 Australian Animals Vol. 1 Rubber Stamp Set

DDRS156 Stars Rubber Stamp Set

RANGER Archival Ink Jet Black

RANGER Dylusions Ink Spray Black Marble

TIM HOLTZ Distress Ink Black Soot

AMSTERDAM Acrylic Ink Silver

GOLDEN Light Molding Paste

UNI Posca Pen White

I hope you love this stencil as much as I do. It really is perfect for so many projects from layouts to art journal pages, cards, tags and canvases. What will you create with your stencil?

Thanks for stopping by my blog today.

Belinda

Sunday, February 4, 2018

Flutterby Designs DT - Dec 25

Hello Flutterby Designs peeps!

Belinda here today to share a layout featuring the fabulous Fair Dinkum Chrissy collection.

I love all of the beach elements in this range as my little family and I quite often head to the beach on Christmas Day.

'Dec 25' Layout

I began by swiping some texture paste over a couple of rows of the awesome 'He Said, She Said' Stencil. I LOVE this stencil and I'm pretty sure I am going to be using it a LOT!

Once he texture paste was dry, I diluted some Tropicana Teal and Arctic White Flutter Colour Paints with water. I also spritzed my background with water and sloshed the teal paint around on it. I gave it a little time to dry and then I lifted the background and applied more paint letting it run down the page to create some lovely drips.

I used the cute 'Bubble O'Fun' Mini Stencil to add some subtle white bubbles to the layout too.

Next I layered on all of my bits and pieces as well as the photo. I cut the 'Dec 25' Wood Veneer bit into pieces, painted it with several coats of white gesso and added to the page.

Here's what I used:

FAIR DINKUM CHRISSY:

- Everyday Etc Cards

- Die Cut Bits & Bobs

- Frame 49

- Wood Veneer Bits

He Said She Said Stencil

Confetti Circles Wood Veneer

Word Speech Bubble Wood Veneer

Jolly Season Page Tabs

Bright Tabs 3 Photo Cut Outs

Stars Photo Cut Outs

Labels 10 Photo Cut Outs

Cool Snippet Strips

White Tiny Sticky Quotes

Thanks for stopping by the blog today!

Cheers

Belinda

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

The Scrapbook Store DT - Pretty As A Picture

Hello!

Today I am sharing my second layout for The Scrapbook Store for the month featuring Graphic 45 Fairie Dust.

'Pretty As A Picture'

I started by creating a lovely wash of Wisteria Kaisermist on my white background. Once dry, I swiped some texture paste through the Mini Believe Script Balzer Designs TCW stencil. I used my white Posca Pen to flick a bit of white paint over it too.

Next I layered on some torn Stamperia Rice Paper (I love this stuff!!). To make it easier to tear I used a wet paint brush to 'draw' in the tear line. I have also added some torn book paper as well as squares of patterned paper from the range.

I painted the 2 Crafty chipboard white using the Posca Pen and glued that in place before addingsome fussy cut fairies, my photo, flowers and title.

Here's what I used:

GRAPHIC 45 Fairie Dust:

- Pretty As A Picture

GREEN TARA Tea Roses Lavender

TSS Flowers 1.5cm Mini Flowers Mauve

STAMPERIA Rice Paper Wisteria

KAISERCRAFT Kaisermist Wisteria

TCW Balzer Designs 6"x6" Stencil Mini Believe Script

GOLDEN Light Molding Paste

UNI Posca Pen White

Thanks for stopping by!

Cheers

Belinda

Saturday, January 20, 2018

Flutterby Designs DT - Beautiful

Hello Flutterby Designs peeps!

I am back today to share another layout for the month featuring the completely fabulous Flutterby Designs 'We Run The World' collection.

I love this collection so much and especially that it represents strong women. So of course I had to use a photo of the fierce, kind and beautiful small female child that I am lucky enough to call my daughter.

'Beautiful'

How gorgeous is that background paper?!!! I think it is my absolute favourite of the brand new 12 x 12 papers. The design is so good.

I started by squirting some Tropicana Teal paint over the 'Connie' paper and then swooshed it around with a palette knife until I had enough coverage.

I played around with some of the Filler Photo Cards to create some layers under my photo.

I added a sweet cluster of embellishments including an awesome flair button, a heart fussy cut from the Connie paper and a Charm's Creations black and white heavenly heart.

I used the acrylic word 'beautiful' as a mask to create my title. I held the word in place carefully with my fingers on a piece of white cardstock while I used a latex make-up wedge to blot the Tropicana Teal paint around it. Check out this progress shot.

I have to admit that when I took the mask away there was a little paint bleeding so I used a white Posca paint pen to tidy up and colour the whole word. I then placed the acrylic word back over the top and used a fine black pen to create a black outline. Finally I fussy cut the whole thing with just a small teal border.

Of course I had to add a bunch of page tabs and snippet strips too.

Here's what I used:

WE RUN THE WORLD:

- Connie patterned paper

- P!NK patterned paper

- Page Tabs

- 'beautiful' acrylic word

- Die Cut Bits & Bobs

- Everyday Etc Filler Photo Cards

- Flair Buttons Set 1

- 'Cool' Snippet Strips

- 'Monochrome' Snippet Strips

- Flutter Colour Paint Tropicana Teal

Well that is all from me today. Make sure you head over to the shop to grab yourself some of the stunning 'Limited Edition' 12 x 12 patterned papers before they run out.

Cheers

Belinda

Tuesday, January 16, 2018

The Dusty Attic DT - Love Forever Always

Hello Dusty Attic fans!

Today I have a couple of layouts to share featuring the most stunning Dusty Attic chipboard designs.

There's a bit of a love theme running through my post today with two very mushy layouts. Not like me at all!

'Forever Always' Layout

Believe it or not, that background paper is actually from a Christmas range but I just loved it for this layout. The floral design really matches our wedding which was held in a beautiful garden in a national park. And this led me to use some gorgeous botanical chipboard pieces as well as some lovely Dusty in Bloom Flowers.

I just adore the String Frames so I have added one on top of my paper layers and kept it in its natural raw state to keep with the 'natural' setting of our wedding. I also kept the Feather Charm raw too.

The Foliage # 8 chipboard has been painted white using a paint pen and then I have added some soft Peeled Paint Distress Ink very delicately with an ink blending tool. You need to be super gentle with this technique so as not to lose any of those sweet leaves.

I created a couple of pretty clusters with the chippie leaves and Dusty In Bloom flowers.

The title and page pebble were just coloured with the white paint pen again to contrast with the dark background.

Now I had planned to heat emboss those sweet little hearts with my favourite Princess Gold embossing powder but couldn't find it. I am not willing to share a photo of the state of my desk right now but if you saw it you would completely understand how easy it was for that embossing powder to hide from me! I scanned my desk area and found a roll of gold stickers that I had been hoarding for a while. They just happened to be the perfect colour so I stuck the chipboard onto the sticky side of the sticker and then cut the excess away. I used an emery board just to sand the sharp edges away. It left me wondering why I hadn't thought to use stickers before!!

Here's what I used:

DA1382 Feather Charms # 3

DA1839 You Will Forever Be My Always

DA1185 String Frames sml

DA1106 Page Pebbles # 2

DA1870 Foliage # 8

DA0990 Mini Hearts # 2

DA0809 DIB Grassy Knoll

DA0805 DIB Bridal Veil

'Love' Layout

Another wedding photo on this layout which is a bit of a different design for me. The idea was to use the large sheet of paper with the 'All You Need is Love' quote on it and fit my photo and embellishments on the side. I'm not going to lie. It was tricky. It was fun to do something a bit out of the ordinary for me though.

I have stuck to a black, white and gold theme for this layout and coloured my chipboard accordingly. The foliage was coloured with a white paint pen, the title, mini hearts and iron garnish painted with a black paint pen and the flower stamens were sprayed with Perfect Pearls Heirloom Gold.

Here's what I used:

DA1866 Iron Garnish # 1

DA0990 Mini Hearts # 2

DA1834 Mini Captions # 11

DA1874 Foliage # 12

DA1876 Flower Stamens

DA1106 Page Pebbles # 2

Well that's all from me today. I hope you are inspired to create your own 'love' layout. Make sure you share it in the Dusty FANattics Facebook Group HERE if you do. I would love to see what you create with Dusty Attic goodies.

Cheers

Belinda

Monday, January 8, 2018

The Scrapbook Store DT - Fairy

Hello!

This month at The Scrapbook Store I am playing with the super cute Graphic 45 Fairie Dust collection. Lots of fairies and flowers.

'Fairy'

I have started by adding some

lindy's Stamp Gang Cosmopolitan Pink Starburst Spray to my background paper. Once dry, I added some stenciling using Golden Light Molding Paste.

I fussy cut a cute photo of my daughter when she was little and added some chipboard wings that I backed with patterned paper and coloured white using a Posca Pen.

I arranged some flowers and a fussy cut fairy around the photo and the quote strip cut from the patterned paper. I chopped the word 'fairy' from a chipboard title, coloured it white with a Posca Pen and glued on a cute little metal fairy charm.