Escape by Rachel Dutko

Hello everyone! 

Rachel here with you today with a fun holiday layout.

I started by adding some Black Heavy Gesso to a piece of white 12x12 cardstock. Once that was dry I applied Deep Water, Sunshine and Lipstick Colour Pastes in varying thicknesses for some texture.

Because the pastes were quite thick in some places 

I left the page to completely dry naturally.

I came back to it a few days later, added some stamping then trimmed 

the whole page in to random-sized strips.

 

I then painted the edge of each of the strips with  

White Heavy Gesso for some definition.

 

Next, I layered the strips onto a piece of 

black cardstock in a cross shape.

The next step was to add some splatters, with watered-down White Heavy Gesso,  

Deep Water Colour Shimmer Spray and Saffron Colour Spray.

Now to some embossing!  I heat embossed the chevrons with Deep Water and Rose Petal Colour Embossing Powders.

I applied White Heavy Gesso to the chipboard words and large chevrons. I then applied water-activated  Peacock Colour Shimmer Dust, and then sprayed with  

Singin' The Blues Colour Shimmer Spray.

So here's a look at the finished page. I added some 'clean' left over strips around the photo with foam tape to add more dimension and to highlight the photo. 

A few close ups-

Thanks for looking

Rachel xx

Though she be but little... by Ree Peace

Hey Guys!!

I have been making the most of school holidays and new colours...talk about a fun mess!

In true Ree style, I gathered my goodies and this time these were based on the colours in my daughter's dress; Apple of my Eye, Sunshine, Paris and Rose Petal worked together perfectly!

I used a mix of Shimmer Spray, Shimmer Dust and Colour Paste =)

Using Stazon, I stamped randomly over some heavy weight cardstock...

Then using Colour Shimmer Spray in Rose Petal I misted and 'ran' the excess up, down and across the page...finishing with some splatters.

Next, I prepped some 

Paris Colour Shimmer Dust with some water in my paint palette.

A little goes a long way!

This was used for extra splatterings by dipping and tapping a dry paintbrush.

Look at that shine!

 ^^^^

And at this yumminess!!!

^^^^^

Using Sunshine and Apple of my Eye Colour Pastes through two different stencils I gained texture and depth on the background.

With the addition of enamel dots and stars the background was complete (this is where covering up such cool work can be hard!)

My finished LO is loved by my daughter... she is seriously cute in this pic taken many moons ago!

I hope you have found some inspiration and feel compelled to get messy!

Stay safe, Ree =)

"Enjoy" by Melissa Struhs

Hello Again Everyone!

I often wonder if I didn't have a creative job, would I still scrap as much as I do? Then, I think of how much my style has changed over the last 18 months of Colour Blast fun on the Design Team. Not sure if I remember what I used before these products were available to be honest.

The use of Colour Blast products on these very feminine style papers really transformed them.

I began with a mini brick template

and roughly smeared Steel  and Dusty Charcoal Colour Paste together to create a variegated look on my non stick craft sheet with a palette knife.

With small stencils, I like to throw down a few pieces of washi tape to help with the stability while I smooth the paste over.

The two colours are the lightest and darkest variations of greys in the range and the combination is really lovely and the texture of the bleeding effect is actually a slight grungy effect (but still tidy enough that neat scrapbookers will be happy!)

The brick look drifts across 2 layers of papers quite well, though my oversized enlargement covers some of it also.

While the paste was still wet, I popped a scrap of paper in the general position of where the photo would eventually be and flicked Stormy Weather Colour Shimmer Spray near the brick stencilling and in the top left corner where an embellishment cluster would be positioned.

To play up a grungy, industrial look I collected a variety of chipboard and wood veneer light bulbs

and a wood veneer title and painted them with Black Heavy Gesso to create a chalkboard finish. Usually chipboard needs 1 coat and wood veneer needs 2 to achieve a uniform look.

A few metal cogs heated and then plunged into a pot of Steel  and Just Blue Colour Embossing Powder, eliminates needing any ink at all. I love that it saves having to search through all of your colours and then having to juggle one more item in this process.

Here is the before and after of a cog dipped in the Steel colouring...it adds a thick glossy layer.

In this image, you can see close up's of the cog given a Just Blue finish teamed with the other elements.

I decided to tidy up any stencil bleeding with a row of backstitching to define the line of bricks and stamped my son's initial's to create a graffiti tag on the wall.

and the final cluster is worked around the chalked title.

With the weekend ahead, I am planning a huge few days of scrapping in complete silence until all of my favourite people arrive on Monday for a girl's scrap day! And Amanda Hartmann, if you are reading this....remember to keep your Lollipop Colour Spray to your side of the table and off my layout please!

Happy Creating!

Mel.

"Cool kids" by Amanda H

Hello again,

April is nearly done, it's been a fast start to the year!

I'm here to share a page today, and I'll demo an interesting technique, with our Gesso and Embossing powders.

Here is a sneak of this fun project, but first, let's look at how I did it!

I chose a stencil and got my White Heavy Gesso and some Colour Embossing Powder ready.

Using a metal spatula, I swipe the Gesso through the stencil. While it is still wet, sprinkle some Colour Embossing Powder onto the Gesso. I used a mix of Envy and Deep Water. Leave this to dry for a while.

Once dry, use a fan brush to dust off the excess Embossing Powder.

Now heat set the embossing powder with your heat gun.

Here is how the background effect looks - pretty cool, right?!

Next I wanted to emboss some chipboard pieces for my page, so I used a Versamark Ink and Colour Embossing Powder in Leather.

I definitely needed some splatters on my page, so I used my Colour Shimmer Spray, also in Leather, to make some splatters. I simply took the wand from the bottle and splattered from the end of the wand.

Actually, after I had put my page together I decided I needed some darker edging around the page, so using a paint brush, I lightly painted an edge, using Colour Spray in Mocha.

Here is the final page and some close ups:

 

 Thanks for looking - have you tried this technique before?