Do what you can ... by Linda Pearson

 

This project was way out of my comfort zone as I normally create painterly mixed media journal pages.  However, with this project I have not used any paints rather I have allowed the beauty of this amazing paper collection be the focal element of this page …. and I have used lace in a very paper crafty way. 

Wild Child 12x12 scrapbook paper

Bohemian Bliss Collection cut-out sheet

Boho tags sheet

Scripted stencil or Garden Poem 

x-press it double sided tape 6mm

Kind heart clear stamp set

Versamark Stamp pad translucent

Embossing powder – snow white

Sakura Gel Roll pen in White and Black or Life of colour or similar paint pens

Liquid Adhesive

White lace

Mounting Tape

Paper Artsy paint gold (or similar brand)

If creating a photo layout keep the paper at 12x12 size, however if creating a journal trim this paper down to suit your journal (sample is A4).

 

 

Fussy cut a section from the Wild Child 12x12 scrapbook paper from top to bottom of the right-hand side of the sheet following a line of flowers, leaves and stems.

 

 

Line the trimmed Wild Child 12x12 scrapbook paper cardstock along the right hand edge of the underpaper, attach this edge using glue or double sided tape  (N.B. keep the fussy cut edge open to allow the lace to be secured to the background page before adhering theWild Child 12x12 scrapbook paper cardstock completely).

Loosely pencil outline the fussy cut cardstock to mark the area where the lace will be glued between the two cardstock sheets.

 

  

Carefully glue the lace following the pencil line … check placement by overlaying the Wild Child 12x12 scrapbook paper moving the lace to be showing correctly.  Glue the wildchild paper over the lace to secure the paper.  Allow to dry.

 

 

 

Pounce gold paint through the Scripted stencil with a silicone sponge randomly across the page.  Dry off

 

 

Stamp the mandala from the Kind heart clear stamp set onto the background using Versamark Stamp pad translucent

.  Sprinkle with Embossing powder – snow white embossing powder, set powder thoroughly using a heat gun.

 

Outline some of the flowers using Sakura Gelli Roll pen or similar white paint pen.

 

 

Select and cut out 2-3 tags from the Boho tags or add your images if making a photo layout.  Also fussy cut a selection of butterflies, birds and leaves from the Bohemian Bliss Collection cut-out sheet.  Adhere randomly around tags/photos and page.  You may wish to outline these embellishments with the Sakura Gelli Roll pen or paint pen to highlight.

 

Add a title or sentiment and you are done.  I hope you are happy as I was in creating this page so out of my comfort zone, but I am very happy with the results.   Happy crafting and see you again soon. 

 

  Bye for now!! from Linda 

https://www.yourcreativepalette.coma.au 

 

Beautiful Mistake part two by Tracey Campbell

Hello everyone, happy Sunday to you all. Here is my latest layout I have created.

The other week I ended up creating this Dream Catcher from a mistake that I made. 

I blogged about it here... if you want to see how I create it. This week I am using the Dream Catcher on a layout and continuing my Beautiful Mistake journey. 

I used the patterned paper with the word circles on from the Arty Farty Collection as my background I applied a layer of Heavy White Gesso to the area where I was going to position the Dream Catcher. 

Applying the Gesso dulls down the printed area of the paper to create a colour block, " a perfect space" to create. The duller background allows the photo or the embellishment to stand out more.

When the gesso was dry, I used some Bling Colour Paste and the Boho Mandal Stencil to add the beading of the Dream Catcher back. When fussing cutting the Mandal out to create a Dream Catcher I had to cut off the vines and beads, as they were way too fiddly for me to cut out. I positioned the beads roughly to the positon where they would have sit fir still attached and where I knew I wanted to glue my Dream Catcher down to, on the background.

I also added the small half mandala from the Boho Mandala Stencil to the right hand side of my background paper.

Here is the positioning of the stencilling with the Bling Colour Paste. I must admit of all the colours of the Colour Paste, the Bling is my favourite, the gold is perfect (not too yellow or dull) and the way it dries makes my heart pitter patter. Once dried I adhered the Dream Catcher over the top, see the final photo for the positioning.

Next I found a photo (4x6 inches) that I thought would suit and cut out 6 different rectangles, the same size of the photo. I also cut out two pieces of vellum the same size. For my papers I used a variety of patterns and colours from the following collections:

Arty Farty Collection

She from the Chit Chat Collection

Symbolic from the Three, Six Five Collection

Light Forest from the Find Paradise Collection

Free Vibe from the Bohemian Bliss Collection

Spread Your Wings Collection

Next I distressed the edges of the rectangles with a distressing tool, then screwed them up into loose balls of paper, untangled them and flattened them out. Tip: if you don't have a distressing tool use the edge of a pair of sharp scissors and run the blade across the paper edge but be careful of your fingers. 

Once flat I stacked them under my photo so that at least two of the edges of each rectangle were peaking out. This creates a photo mat with "attitude"  :) it is quiet hight and adds lots of dimension to the layout. Adhere the photo stack to the bottom right hand side of the Dream Catcher. 

To create some addition layouts I tucked in some gold paper doilies and string wreaths that I cut out of some white cardstock with the Sting Wreath metal die. 

I shortened up the gold sequins string, that attached the feather to the Dream Catcher so that they didn't dangle off the page.

Next I cur out a stack of single words from Sweet Talker cut apart in the Bohemian Bliss Collection and distressed the edges. I then adhered them around the layout in random places (see final layout below for positions).

Some close ups.

So I hope I have inspired you to keep going if you make a mistake and not to throw it away, try and create something from it. 

Hugs until next time,

Tracey

Beautiful Mistake by Tracey Campbell

 Hello lovely people, Tracey Campbell here again today to share my creation with you. Have you ever had an idea in your head and when you go it execute it, it doesn't work out how you planned and turns into a red hot mess??

Well that was me today - I wanted to create a layout with a Mandala on it using the Entangled patterned paper from the Find Paradise Collection but it didn't go as planned.

I ended up with this!!! But from mistakes beautiful things can be created, so stick with me and I will show you have my mess turned out to be a beautiful mistake.

I started by mixing some clear Gesso with some Colour Mica Powders in Sage, Polar, Peach Nectar, Lemon Zest and Wisteria to create coloured Gesso. Now this was my mistake, the clear Gesso was too runny, I should have used the Colour Blast Heavy White Gesso instead. 

Using a silicon paint palette I spread the coloured Gesso through the Boho Mandala stencil on to the Entangled pattern paper. 

I used all five colours to create a nice pattern to the mandala. Tip: when doing a large amount or fussy stencilling use a bit of washi tape to hold your paper and stencil in place.

When I lifted the stencil off the paper, I discovered that the Gesso was too runny and had bleed under the stencil creating this mess. I was really disappointed with it and was going to give up and throw the sheet of Entangled out, so I started my clean up.

I flipped the stencil over and pressed it down with a scrap of cardboard to get off the excess Gesso. When I took the stencil off the paper again I discovered a soft imprint of the Mandala, on both the Entangled paper and the scrap of cardstock, giving me an idea.

I grabbed some white cardstock and place the Boho Mandala stencil between them and ran my palm over the backside of the cardstock. I now had two soft images of the Mandala, which I thought were lovely and my mind was running away. I scrapped my original idea to do a layout with a Mandala and instead decided to create a dream catcher.

I continued to use the stencil as a stamp and created a few more images. I did have to load more Gesso onto the stencil to get a few more images. Once they were dry I fussy cut them out.

And stuck them together to create a Mandala, actually had enough images to create two.

Next I used sequins and gems to decorate.

To turn the mandala into a dream catcher I painted the feathers on the Free Vibe pattern paper from the Bohemian Bliss Collection with Colour Shimmer Cubes. If you don't have the Shimmer Cubes you can make use the Colour Shimmer Spray to paint them. I picked five colours that matched the Colour Mica Powders that I made the coloured Gesso from: Sunshine, Apple of My Eye, Punch, Singin the Blues and Lovely Lilac.

Once dry fussy cut them out.

I then glued some gold sequin string to the back of the feather and the Mandala.

Here is how it turned out, such a fun and pretty Dream Catcher - my beautiful mistake

A few photos of the details in close ups below.

I am still thinking about using this on a layout and now that I have a spare Mandala I just might, so pop back into the blog in a few weeks to see what I come up with.

Hugs

Tracey

Wonderment by Tracey Campbell

Hello everyone. It is Spring here in Australia, the weather is getting warmer and that makes me happy. I love the warm weather, cold makes me shut down and want to hibernate. Anyone else like that? Anyhoo seeing as the weather is improving I decided that I wanted to use a few flowers on my creation today so I went though my leftovers from the Bohemian Bliss Collection and discovered a few flowers and feathers, so this was my starting point.

I fussy cut the flowers and feather from the Bohemian Bliss, Boho Tags paper. 

Using some Bling Colour Paste, the Boho Mandala stencil and a paint pallet knife I spread the paste onto the Free Vibe paper from the Bohemian Bliss collection on the yellow coloured side. At first I just spread the paste through the big mandala and little half but when the paste was dried I cam back to it and flipped the stencil, lined  the small mandala up with the first half and created a full small mandala.  

Next I fussy cut both the large and small mandalas out.

Adhere the large mandala to the top left hand corner of the B side of Market Days patterned paper. I only adhered the center of the mandala at this stage as I had plans to put things under the hanging vines and beads of the mandala.

I wanted to add a touch of gold to the edge of my photo so using my finger I lightly applied some Bling Colour Paste around the edge. This gave it a bit of a fancy distressed look.

After the Colour Paste was dry I matted the photo with scraps in the shape of triangles from the Sweet Talker patterned paper.

I then cut a quarter of the small mandala off so that I would have two pieces, I tucked the larger piece under the top right hand corner of the matted photo and the smaller piece under the left hand bottom corner. Then placed a small gold doily over the top of the mandala centers. Then adhered the matted photo cluster to the Market Days patterned paper.

Using some 3 dimensional tape I stuck the flowers and feathers onto the page and adhered the vines and beads down securely with some clear drying paper glue. 

To finish off the layout I cut out a few words and a title from the Sweet Talker pattrned paper and adhered them to the page (you can see the final layout for hte placement of the title and words), I then used a Life of Colour gold paint pen to draw a boarder around the page.

I must admit starting with one thought in mind (flowers) was a simple way to narrow down my product to allow me to concentrate enough to get a layout done. It simplified my process and got me straight into creating, some days I need to limit myself as I have all sorts of ideas in my head and too many wonderful products from Bee Arty that I can't narrow it down and actually do something. But today I didn't have that issues, the layout come together fast and I am happy with the final look.

Anyhoo, I hope that I have inspired you to just go for it!!!

Hugs

Tracey