Colour Blast by Bee Arty: Choose Happiness by Suzy Loudon

Thursday, 21 June 2018

Choose Happiness by Suzy Loudon

Hello everyone. Today I'm sharing a layout I did for my daughter. As she grows up into a lovely young lady it is getting so hard to take photos of her. Luckily I managed to get some lovely snaps this day.

The weekend before I did my layout or had even thought of what I was going to do I made some flowers. To do this I cit out some flowers with a die cut. Each flower was made up of 4 different sizes. I then gave them a really good spray with Violet Colour Spray. I then held them together with a large split pin. I then scrunched together each individual petal starting from the centre working outwards. I then left them to dry naturally. When I came back to them many days later I carefully opened the flowers up from the outside shaping the petals. (I forgot to take a photo but you can see them in the close-ups at the end).

Using a sponge I dipped it into some Heavy White Gesso that I had smeared onto my craft mat, building up the layers until I was happy.

Then using a nice big paintbrush I dipped it into my Indigo Colour Spray & painted over my Gessoed area. Then using my heat gun I dried it allowing areas to pool to give character.

Using Dusty Charcoal Colour Paste I spread it through a stencil.

Once dry I added Lovely Lilac Colour Paste through a different stencil.

I grabbed some cling wrap & dabbed it into some Soot Artist Ink that I had put on my craft mat & given a spray of water, then dabbed it around my purple area.

Once the Soot Artist Ink dried it went more translucent.

I mixed some Wisteria Colour Mica Powder with Mod Podge then painted a lace flower.

I embossed some chipboard with Rose Petal Colour Embossing Powder. I embossed straight onto the chipboard without using a coloured ink or white gesso so it gave it a darker shade...a pinky purple.

Using my finger I edged my photos with Heavy White Gesso before backing onto black card then cardboard.

I embossed some more chipboard with Royalty Colour Embossing Powder

My chipboard flourishes I embossed with Dusty Charcoal Embossing Powder.

For my chipboard title I first gave it a good coat with a purple ink pad. While it was still wet I coated it with Lovely Lilac Embossing Powder.

Using my Lovely Lilac Shimmer Spray I sprayed some white flowers & left to dry.

After putting all my elements together I covered my photo before giving my page a splash with watered down Heavy White Gesso.

I added 2 different shades of purple micro breads, some glass glitter and some Wisteria Mica Powder in a small container. The Mica Powder coloured the glitter giving me a very pretty mix.