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Showing posts with label Alterations. Show all posts
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Friday, July 4, 2014

A Little Twinkle ~ mixed media tag


Happy 4th of July! It's Bonnie here today with a mixed media tag I created. This is the #10 size (just over 4” x 8.5”) so there is more real estate to play around. I began by covering the background with scraps of two different designer papers, tearing the edges of the darker one and overlapping the lighter of the two. Next I tore some vintage catalogue paper from the Michelle Hill Ephemera bundle and adhered it in two places.


Stencilling was applied first using white gesso and a couple of designs from TCW's Well Rounded stencil. Next Jet Black Archival ink was pounced on with a sponge through the Dina Wakley Plastic Canvas stencil. A little gesso was scuffed here and there both to knock back the printed text lettering and to lighten some of the dark blue paper. The same black ink was used to apply a TH text stamp in random areas. A crackle stamp was then added mainly on the lighter areas using WV Cornflower Blue Archival ink. This ink was also sponged around the tag's edges. Two chunks of Add a Little Dazzle metal sheets were torn (yes, it tears!) and embossed using a Cuttlebug embossing folder. The pieces were adhered to the tag with Scor tape and white gesso was added randomly with my finger.


The moon and stars were die cut from scraps of yellow designer paper using the Alterations Crescent Moon and Stars Bigz die. Each was inked around the edges with Scattered Straw and then Wild Honey Distress inks. The moon was given a doodled eye and outline with a black pen as well as Magenta Archival ink cheeks and lips before it was popped up on foam tape and adhered to the background. It was then outlined on the blue with Black Big Brush pen. The little girl from Tumblefish Studio was fussy cut, outlined in black to get rid of the white cut edges, and popped up on foam except for the part of her skirt which overlapped the moon. She was given a star to hold, a fancy hat cut from scraps, and some white dots on her dress.


The sentiment from Wendy Vecchi's Art Comforts set was stamped in Jet Black Archival onto the same yellow “moon paper”, cut out with a Labels One die, and matted with the dark blue paper. A little faux stitching was added prior to popping it up on foam tape. A chunk of cheesecloth was tucked underneath to suggest a cloud.

The finishing touches were Black Big Brush pen along the outside edges, doodling and outlining with Black Micron pen, and some punched scraps of black cardstock. Three black pearls were added to the top right corner and a length of black grosgrain ribbon was stapled to the top of the tag.

Thanks for visiting today. I hope you get a chance to get messy soon!

Bonnie


Here are links to some of the products used which can be found in the eP store:

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Une Promenade Layout Tutorial

Hi again! It's Linda here, as 
your guest designer for the month of June, with a layout tutorial. This actually isn't the project I had planned for this week, but the 7 Dots Studio Nature Walk papers have so won my heart, that I really wanted to do a layout with them... and I had just the perfect two photos to team up with them. I'll show you what I mean as I go along.


I started with the
back side of the Nature Walk "Musical Blooms" that looks like stained boards... the boards of our walk way leading up to our Virginia condo.


I only used the first 1 1/2" into
the sheet and trimmed out the center to use another place on the layout. I wanted to get all I could from this fabulous paper.


I used lightweight chipboard
as my base with the "board" frame adhered down to it with 1/4" Scor Tape. I roughed up the edges with my Tim Holtz paper distresser and sponged on Walnut Stain distress ink. 


I loved the stains so much
on this sheet that I wanted more, so I pulled out my Crafter's Workshop Confetti stencil and put down some gesso.


Now the "Cloudy" sheet
with 1 1/4" trimmed from all edges and distressed. 


Here is my placement before
adhering it all down with Scor Tape and Scotch Foam Mounting Tape. I fussy cut butterflies, a blossom and a leaf cluster from the "Winged Vines" sheet. The chipboard pieces are from the Prima Cartographer.


With my Alterations Tattered
Florals die I cut three layers of each petal with "Winged Vines" and "Cotton". I inked the edges with Walnut Stain, scrunched them up in my hands and assembled the huge flower using glue. I added a Prima Time Traveler Say It In Crystals gem to the center. 


Now I cut my foliage
using Alterations Spring Greenery and some paper from my Core'dination's Kraft Core pad as well as my Tim Holtz Wallflower one.


I rubbed some Crushed
Olive and Bundled Sage distress ink onto my craft mat, misted with water, and drug my foliage through several times until I got the look I wanted, drying with my heat tool between each inking.


Then I sponged on Walnut
Stain and shaped the leaves with my long tweezers and my fingers.


This is my flower and
foliage placement. I tucked in some green Spanish moss and an old glittered timepiece charm that had a pink rhinestone which I replaced with an Idea-ology bauble. I stuck in an Idea-ology memo pin with a Prima wood butterfly. On my fussy cut butterfly, I glued on an Idea-ology pen nib with Glossy Accents. For a little more pizazz, I added a strip of the mirrored sheet that I cut with Alterations Frameworks Courtyard die.


I tucked in a bit of Film Strip 
ribbon to the left side and "nailed down" my board paper with nail heads from Prima's Junkyard Findings.



I hope there's something
here that will inspire you to try these gorgeous papers or any of the other product. I've had a ball putting it together, and now my husband and I have a keepsake to remember our time in Virginia.

Thanks for stopping by!

Here are links for the products used above: