Spread Your Wings ~ Mixed Media Card with Melinda

Hi there, Melinda here with you today and I am sharing a card I made for a work friend who has left and started a new life for herself overseas!

Here's a little peeky....

Here is my process video if you are interested in seeing this card come together

And read on for my step-by-steps

First up, after I cut my card front to size (10cm x 14.3cm) I grabbed this very pretty stencil from my stash (it is a Dusty Attic one) and my Bling Colour Paste. I'll tell you a little secret here - I wasn't 100% certain of where I wanted this card to go so I took inspiration from my last DT project and ran with it!

I let that air dry and then came back and started to add colour. I had already picked some pieces I wanted to use to embellish with so grabbed my matching colours in Sunshine and Tangereen Dream in the Colour Shimmer Cubes and clean cup of water. I added a little water over the top of the stencilling and then added my colour, moving the card stock around to get the colour to move and adding water/more colour when necessary.

I did get impatient and used my heat tool to dry that off so I could move onto my next step. Splatters! Using the same colours and paint brushes I added in splatters - Sunshine to the Tangereen side mostly and Tangereen to the Sunshine side. 

When that was dry I grabbed a damp baby wipe and rubbed over my Colour Paste to get the Bling to pop once again without any additional colour on top! Did you know that you could do that?? 

It really makes the colours of the pastes pop once again!

Next up, I dumped all of my pretty things onto my base and decided I needed a dark pop of colour behind all the bits so I grabbed a mini doily from my stash and my Dusty Charcoal Colour Shimmer Cube. 

I love having white options because it makes it so easy to customise colours for any project. I just used a paint brush and painted over the doily - be careful if you are doing this that you are not too rough or you may rip/tear the doily! I almost did!! Again, I used my heat tool to dry this off and then applied a second coat in the same way.

One last step before bringing it all together - splatters in Dusty Charcoal. Again, same as above but with a different colour. I love the contrast it gives and that darker colour really makes the whole design just pop! 

And here is my finished card. I think my friend will love it - it is being hand delivered by another friend to Dubai next week! I added in some stamping in a dark grey ink and mounted my card front onto this fun and bright yellow card stock to finish it off!

Thanks as always for stopping by! I hope I have given you some inspiration for whatever you have currently sitting on your desk and I'll see you again in couple of weeks! Please make sure you head over to the FB group, Colour Blast Creative Corner, to share all of your projects using Colour Blast goodies, we love seeing them and being inspired by you all!

Melinda

Zoom Zoom with Melinda Sweetman

Hi, hi Colour Blast fans, Melinda here with you today sharing a fun page I created about our family car!

Have you ever experimented with the Colour Shimmer products on black cardstock?!? If you haven't you so should, the colours look amazing and so bright and fun!

Here is the page I created

And here are my step-by-steps

First up, a stencil and 4 colours of the gorgeous Colour Pastes - I've used Steel, Sunshine, Tangereen Dream and Apple of My Eye. I have used my pallet knife and randomly applied colour through the stencil until I was happy with the way it was looking.

While that was still wet (because I am impatient ;) ) I grabbed the matching Colour Shimmer Sprays (again Steel, Sunshine, Tangereen Dream and Apple of My Eye) and did some sprinkles with the nozzle from the bottle. I don't know what happened to my "in progress" photo but below you can see the beautiful shimmer and colour that the droplets have left. Totally, swoon worthy!

I popped my background aside and got to work on my "layers". Now, after lots of mucking around and pulling out different things I decided with all that colour in the background less was more. So, I very simply grabbed some black and white tissue paper to back my photo and this die cut I have had sitting on my desk for months. It was cut in white and the white was too stark so I grabbed my Steel Colour Shimmer Spray and paint brush and applied a couple of quick coats.

I love how this looks!

I really didn't think that the page needed too much more added with all of that bright colour in the background so I found a couple of black and white tabs and a black and white flair - which I added a little nest of silver thread behind and added some dimension and stuck my layers down.

My journalling came next, down the 2 sides of the page with a white paint pen and with a couple of doodled borders on the top and bottom edges. 

At this point I decided some white splatters would finish it off nicely so I mixed together some white heavy gesso and water, grabbed a paint brush, covered my photo and flicked watered down gesso around. Love how this tied it all together!

Here again is my completed project

And below is my You Tube process video if you'd like to see my page come together!

Thanks, as always for stopping by and until next time, happy scrapping!

Melinda

Hello Beautiful by Sue Plumb

Hi everyone! Sue Plumb here with my latest design team project to share with you. Today I have a 12x12" layout that features the gorgeous new Colour Shimmer Cubes. (For anyone who hasn't seen these little pots of watercolour deliciousness yet, make sure you head to the store HERE and check them out!) Besides the cubes, I also used Colour Paste, Heavy White Gesso, Colour Embossing Powder and Colour Shimmer Spray in the making of this project.

Here's what I created...

Whenever I get a new product to use, I like to play around to see how it applies, blends, and performs on different surfaces. With the Colour Shimmer Cubes being a watercolour cake, I decided to reach for some watercolour paper first to take them for a spin. I used a small flat brush, which I simply dipped into a cup of water, activating the paint as I went. I used the Blush and Tangereen Dream colours as I thought they would make a pretty blend.

I was happy with the way they applied to the paper, and the way they moved around and blended when more water was added to the page. They also have a delicious shimmer (which may be a little difficult to see in my process photos, as I was using overhead light). I then set the watercolour paper aside to dry and repeated the same process on white cardstock. I added some small splatters with the brush using the two colours I had out and also in Steel; and then left it to dry as well.

I loved the way the colours looked once dry, and didn't want to waste the sheet of watercolour paper I had used to play; so I decided to stamp some flower images that I then fussy cut to use as embellishments on my page.

I wanted to add a little extra depth of colour to my background, so I reached for my Bling Colour Paste. I thought some golden highlights would work well, so I used my finger to smear some paste in random areas on my page. (Sometimes fingers make the best tools!)

Next, I turned my attention to my embellishments. I had a number of wood veneer pieces which I painted with a coat of White Heavy Gesso. I had initially planned to keep most of the pieces simply painted white, with the exception of the main title word, which I embossed using Bling Colour Embossing Powder to tie in with the gold highlights in my background.

Once my title was embossed, I felt the other pieces could do with an extra "lift" as well. I still wanted to keep them white though, so I embossed them using Snow White Colour Embossing Powder. 

After all that, it was time to put my layout together.

I decided to cut the photo of my daughter out so I could remove all the distractions in the background. I layered the photo on top of a paper doily and some frayed gauze, which helped define the focal area of my page.

I placed the stamped flowers I had fussy cut earlier around my page, and layered them with some gold thread. I adhered some of them using foam tape and curled the edges up for extra dimension.

Next, I tucked the large string heart wood veneer behind my photo, and then positioned the small wood frame around the corner of my photo.

I then added the wood veneer hearts; the paper flower on top of the string heart; and a few white paper leaves.

Next I added my title, which I also layered on top of some gold thread; a couple of small phrase stickers and some enamel dots scattered around my page.

To finish, I couldn't go past one last splatter - this time using my Bling Colour Shimmer Spray. This was the final element I needed to help tie all those gold tones together.

Thanks for stopping by today so I could share this with you. I will be back again in a couple of weeks with another project. Until then, happy scrapping!

* For anyone near Brisbane this weekend, make sure you plan a visit to the Scrapbook & Papercraft Expo at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre. You can visit the Colour Blast stand to watch live demonstrations and pick up plenty of your favourite Colour Blast products *

Autumn Leaves by Ree Peace

Hi all!!!

How amazing is Autumn? And how clever is Colour Blast? Combine the two and you get a Blast of Autumn on your page!

I gathered the Colour Sprays and Shimmer Sprays for this project.

Colour Sprays: Saffron, Rainforest and Coffee

Colour Shimmer Sprays: Leather, Fire Engine, Tangereen Dream

First I drew some fineliner leaf outlines

And misted them lightly with water before colouring them with layers of the above colours...

When I felt they matched those in my chosen pic I dried the cardstock off with my heat gun.

Next I Created highlights with Bling Colour Paste because who can go by some Blingy bits?!?!?!

This dried wonderfully, so much shimmery shine!

Here is the completed background...

And this is how I used it =)

These guys just love to give me the best shots!

Enjoy what is left of the beautiful colours before the bleak greys arrive!

Signing off for now, Ree =)

More with Melinda Sweetman

Hi there Colour Blast fans and thanks so much for stopping by for my 1st post for 2017! I hope the new year finds you well!!

Today I am sharing a page I created using the very gorgeous 7 Dots Studio Cotton Candy Dreams range paired with Colour Blast products in Leather, Envy, Tangereen Dream and Mocha! I do have to also share that I was VERY inspired by one Anguree's posts from December and ran with it!

And there is a process video if you'd like to see my page come together

First up a little stamping with my black archival ink on this gorgeous patterned paper

And next some Colour Paste in Tangereen Dream through a stencil

I quickly dried that off my heat tool and the next step was another stencil this time with Leather Colour Shimmer Spray

Then I did some splatters using the nozzles of some sprays - Envy Colour Shimmer Spray, Tangereen Dream Colour Shimmer Spray, Rainforest Colour Spray and Mocha Colour Spray.

I then left that to dry off naturally while I worked on my title. A very simple one word title "more" which I cut a few times on my cameo. I was unsure which size I wanted to use and ended up adding all 3 to my page!

I very simply sprayed that with Tangereen Dream Colour Shimmer Spray. I also sprayed the other 2 pieces a bit later when I decided I wanted to use those as layers.

Next up for a bit more colour I used the same stencil I used on the background and Tangereen Dream Colour Paste and applied that over the top of my word.

I had pulled out a few stickers from the Cotton Candy Dreams range which eluded to "find your wings and fly" so wanted to add in some butterflies. I grabbed stamp set, my versamark and also my Tangereen Dream Colour Embossing Powder and got to stamping and embossing. And, of course, fussy cutting ;)

At this point I decided I wanted to add in some chipboard so I grabbed this Dusty Attic piece from my stash and again went in with my versamark and embossing powder.

I started to assemble my layout here and this is when I decided to add in the extra words I had cut on my cameo but wanted a little more colour/depth to them so added on the Leather Colour Shimmer Spray through a stencil and love how they came out!

Finally I added in some very rough hand drawn lines around the border of my page using the Mocha Colour Spray nozzle.

And here is my completed page

And a few close ups

 Just as a side note, the word "more" is the word that spoke to me for my take of One Little Word by Ali Edwards. I have included a tag behind my photo in a pocket which I will add some journalling to about what I hope 2017 brings for me!

It really is amazing where a little inspiration can take you! I had so much fun putting this page together. Next time you see something that catches your eye, make something - you may just love it or learn something in the process!!

Until next time!

Melinda