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Sunday, February 21, 2021

Bee Arty DT - Follow Your Soul

Hello Bee Arty fans!!

Today I am sharing my latest layout for Bee Arty featuring lots of awesome Bee Arty products.

'Follow Your Soul'

I started my lay out by cropping a sheet of the Tangled patterned paper from the Untangle collection. I then added it to a sheet of the fabulous Bee Arty 350gsm White Cardstock for extra strength and support.

I sprayed the background paper with Saffron Colour Spray and let it drip down the page. Next I added Slipper Colour Artist Ink and let that drip down too. I dried the page with a heat gun and then added more Slipper Ink letting it run down the page again. I flicked some of the ink over the page too using a soft wet paintbrush and then dried with the heat gun again. I repeated this process using Citrus Ink too.

How gorgeously vibrant are those colours??!!

Next I added two lacy scroll borders die cut from the Desire Metal Die Set as well as some wire thread, a doily and flowers fussy cut from the Embrace patterned paper

I used the same inks to colour these super pretty die cut leaves from the Leaves of Paradise Metal Die Set. Once dry I added them to the layout along with all other embellishments, my photo and title.

Here is my finished layout:

You can see that I fussy cut some leaves and added some uncoloured die cut leaves too. I sprayed the Polaroid Butterfly die cut with the Saffron Colour Spray, let dry and then doodled a border with a black pen before adding over the top of my photo.

Here's what I used:

UNTANGLE Collection:

- Embrace patterned paper

- Lines patterned paper

- Silence patterned paper

- Tangled patterned paper

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today. I hope you are feeling inspired to have a play with your Bee Arty stash too.

Cheers

Belinda

Tuesday, February 16, 2021

The Dusty Attic DT - Today's Memories

Hello Dusty Attic fans!

Today I am sharing my latest layout for The Dusty Attic featuring some fabulous Dusty Attic chipboard.

'Today's Memories'

I have chosen a bit of a botanical theme for this layout to compliment my photo of my daughter taken many years ago. She was flitting about on the farm dressed as a fairy on this day and I absolutely love this photo of her just sitting in the grass looking at some leaves or something on the ground.

There are so many stunning botanical inspired chipboard pieces and stencils to choose from but I started with the stunning Floral Stencil. I added it to my background using Prima Vintage Gold Icing Paste; a medium that I am loving at the moment. I swiped a little of it over the background as well.

I used the same Vintage Gold Icing Paste and applied it to the leafy chipboard pieces using a latex make-up wedge for a lovely smooth finish. It is pretty quick to dry too which is perfect for an impatient person like me!!

I had already used some diluted Dylusions Mushy Peas Paint on my background so I used the same paint to colour the title and the Mini Tab above my photo. I applied the paint with a latex make-up wedge using a soft dabbing motion. I repeated this twice more for a more vibrant result.

I created a pretty cluster with the leaves a Spring Vine and an old flower from my stash to frame my photo.

I created a visual triangle with the green chipboard pieces and another embellishment which also helps to frame the photo.

Dusty Attic products used:

DA1802 Mini Tabs # 5

DA2486 Floral Stencil

DA2680 Autumn Leaves # 2 small

DA2786 Mini Foliage # 2

DA2790 Spring Vines # 1

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today. I hope you are feeling inspired to have a play with some of Dusty Attic's beautiful botanical products too.

Cheers

Belinda

Friday, February 12, 2021

Scrapping Clearly DT - Real Life

Hello Scrapping Clearly fans!!

Today I am sharing my latest layout for Scrapping Clearly inspired by the fabulous February Moodboard Challenge.

I must not have gotten the theme of the Australia Day Cybercrop out of my system because I decided to use a photo of my farm for this layout. Either that or I printed a LOT of photos for the cybercrop!! LOL

Here's a peek at the moodboard:

I really loved the combination of neutrals with black and gold and that image of the bee so I tried to incorporate all of these into my layout.

I tried to be clever and mix my own black concentrated watercolour using the primaries. It turned out awesome...on white paper but when I applied it to this coloured cardstock it looked too red so I sprayed over the top with Black Marble Dylusions Ink Spray. I spritzed it with water and played around with tilting the page and moving it about with a paintbrush. I flicked some droplets over the page too.

My initial plan was to stamp some bugs from the Tim Holtz Specimens Stamp Set on my background but as you can see the one that I stamped didn't stand out from the black background enough so I scrapped that idea. Let's just ignore that stamp fail shall we?!! You can see my solution coming up shortly.

I don't know about you but I love to hoard the papers that Kylie kindly sends in those beautiful gold parcels. I finally got to use some on this layout!! YAY!! I tore some strips from black and gold tissue papers and applied them to the background using Matte Medium Gel. Then I set the layout aside to dry.

Then because I am totally addicted to the absolutely fabulous Vintage Gold Icing Paste, I applied that over a Vicki Boutin Wild Soul Stencil.

Let's just take a moment to swoon over that sheen!! How good is it?!!

I applied the Icing Paste over the two chipboard pieces by ScrapFX and added those to the layout along with some chipboard stickers.

I added my paper stack and my photo as well as the title and another chipboard sticker.

Finally I added all remaining embellishments and a bit more stamping. You can see my solution to the stamp fail here. I simply stamped a couple of winged bugs on matching cardstock, fussy cut and added over the original stamp. To balance the layout, I added another cute bug at the bottom right of the photo too.

Here's what I used:

BAZZILL Marshmallow Heavy Weight Cardstock

HEIDI SWAPP Storyline 12 x 12 Project Pad - patterned paper

HEIDI SWAPP Mini Stamp Together

PRIMA Finnabair Art Extravagance Icing Paste - Vintage Gold

VICKI BOUTIN Tell Your Story Thickers

VICKI BOUTIN Wildflower Thickers

VICKI BOUTIN Wild Soul Stencils

AMERICAN CRAFTS Thickers Right Here - Puffy Stickers

RANGER Archival Ink Jet Black

RANGER Dylusions Ink Spray Black Marble

TIM HOLTZ Stampers Anonymous:

-School Desk

- Specimens

TIM HOLTZ Ideaology Remnants Rubs

SCRAP FX Chipboard Bookplates - small

Thanks for stopping by the blog today. I hope you are feeling inspired to have a go at the moodboard too. Happy FriYAY and have a great weekend.

Cheers

Belinda

Sunday, February 7, 2021

Bee Arty DT - Magic

Hello Bee Arty fans!!

Today I am sharing my latest layout featuring lots of amazing Colour Blast products inspired by the February Sketch Challenge.

Here's a peek at the challenge:

'Magic'

To start this layout, I first cropped a sheet of the awesome Bee Arty Heavy Weight White Cardstock and mounted on a sheet of patterned paper from the fabulous Untangle Collection. I then applied the Stardust Stencil with Snow White Colour Paste using a palette knife.

Once the Colour Paste was dry, I spritzed the page with water and dropped in Colour Artist Inks. I first started with the Citrus. I dropped the colour into the wet areas, spritzed with more water, pushed it around with my fingertip, blotted with a scrunched up paper towel and then dried off with a heat gun. I repeated this process with both the Oasis and Slipper inks until I was happy with the coverage.

Next, I added some stamping. I used the Bokeh Stamp Set with Aquamarine Archival Ink. I used the text stamp from the set without an acrylic block so I could achieve a more random stamping style.

I added some messy thread across my page and then added a layered stack of matching patterned papers from the Untangle collection. I inked the edges of the paper with Peacock Feathers Distress Ink.

I added my photo using 3D foam and then the Postage Stamp Die Cut on top. I slipped in the Honeycomb Die Cut on either side of the paper stack too.

Next I stamped a whole bunch of leaves from the Floral Delights 1 Clear Stamp Set and fussy cut each one. I also stamped some stars and the filmstrips from the Moments In Time Stamp Set using Jet Black Archival Ink. I fussy cut some flowers from the Bloom patterned paper. I painted these flowers using the same Colour Artist Inks as the background.

Finally I assembled the layout using all of the fussy cut elements as well as the title and the quote cut from the Inspirations patterned paper.

I used the smallest star stamp from the Moments In Time Stamp Set to add a cute sprinkling of stars over the layout too.

Colour Blast products used:

BEE ARTY Heavy Weight White Cardstock

UNTANGLE Collection:

- Bloom patterned paper

- Continue patterned paper

- Inspirations patterned paper

- In The Moment patterned paper

STAMPS:

STENCILS:

METAL DIES:

COLOUR PASTE Snow White

COLOUR ARTIST INK:

- Citrus

- Oasis

- Slipper

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today. I hope you get a chance to play along with the challenge this month using some awesome Bee Arty products.

Cheers

Belinda

Friday, February 5, 2021

Scrapping Clearly DT - My Here + Now

Hello Scrapping Clearly fans!!

Today I am sharing one of the layouts I created for the Australia Day Cyber Crop. I created this one for Challenge Four; My Backyard and used some fabulous products from the Scrapping Clearly store.

'My Here + Now'

I used a photo of my backyard which is actually the front yard of our home. We use the back door as our front door though so our house is kind of back to front. That is what you get with a quirky old farmhouse built in the 1800's. We even have an outdoor dunny that you can see in the photo. It gets so cold in the hills in winter so I would not have wanted to go out at night to use that dunny especially with the amount of redback and white tail spiders as well as brown snakes and red belly black snakes we get! Thank goodness for indoor toilets!!

I started my layout by cropping a sheet of the Paper Arts Bubbles 3 patterned paper. I love this paper. It really doesn't need too much mixed media on it as it is quite lovely just as it is. But of course I did add some! I had some Prima Finnabair Art Extravagance Icing Paste in Vintage Gold to play with for the first time. I have to say how impressed I am with this product!! I used it with a Vicki Boutin stencil and applied with a palette knife. It gave a really crisp edge and was quite quick to dry. I am going to be using this a lot and think I will have to invest in other colours.

Next I spritzed the page with some water and dropped in some Prima Art Philosophy Concentrated Watercolour in Marigold. I used a paintbrush (and my finger!) to push the watercolour around a little. Aqua and yellow are such a beautiful combination and the yellow co-ordinated so well with the yellow leaves in my photo.

I added some Peacock Concentrated Watercolour too for a more intense aqua/teal colour.

And because I LOVE stamping I added some stamped leaves to the background for added interest. I am totally in love with the little Inkadinkadoo Cling Stamps. This one is called Branches and has the sweetest little stamps. I used Jet Black Archival Ink which is my weapon of choice when it comes to stamping. It is waterproof and gives a lovely crisp image.

Next, I added some layered patterned papers and my photo.

I stamped some flowers and leaves onto book paper using stamps by Vicki Boutin and the Jet Black ink. I coloured the flowers with the same watercolours as used on the background and left to dry. I added double sided tape to the back of the book paper before fussy cutting each piece. This essentially creates a sticker and reinforces the paper to make it easier to fussy cut. Then all you have to do is peel off the backing and stick the fussy cut piece onto your layout.