Colour Blast by Bee Arty: Cafe Bang Bang! by Charmane Koch

Friday, 29 January 2021

Cafe Bang Bang! by Charmane Koch

Hey Guys! Happy Friday! Thank goodness it's the end of the week! It feels like a long one, even though it has been a short one with a day off on Tuesday! And yay for those of you that had the Monday off too! Reality has truly hit with school going back on Wednesday as well!

I am really excited to be back with Colour Blast again & very excited to be working with Paige & amazing team who has done such an amazing job taking over from Tenisha! I have continuously loved Colour Blast, but needed to take a break as a CT Member as life was way too hectic - but now I feel it has calmed down a bit, and I can finally have some ME time - and play with the many awesome Mixed Media goodies and amazing collections that keep on coming each and every month! I hope that I can inspire you to create your own projects too!

Anyway... let's do my first share - with the gorgeous Bohemian Bliss collection the lovely Sue Smyth has designed - what can I say but WOW! It is so MY style!

I started off with covering one of the fab 350gsm White Cardstock with Colour Blast White Heavy Gesso & dried it with my Heat Gun.

I decided that I wanted to create my own background, and also wanted to use 4 photos of a recent visit to a Cafe on Hindley Street in Adelaide - I am loving using more photos on my layouts and thought this was the perfect page to create. I backed my photos using a Bohemian Bliss Paper.

I have then smeared some Modelling Paste over the Bohemian Bliss Kaleidoscope Stencil positioning in 3 different spots on my White Cardstock. I have also used one of the corner stencil patterns at the top left and bottom right of the page. I have then used the Heat Gun to dry.

Using 3 different Mica Powders mixed with water in a paint palette, I have coloured the "Mandala" flower pattern, starting with "Punch" for the centre flower, then "Watermelon" and lastly "Just Blue" for the outer flower. I used Watermelon for the Corner patterns as well. I added water to lighten the colour, and added more Mica Powder where I wanted to darken.

Once the Mica Powder had dried, I have doodled a little around the edge with a black pen to highlight.

I have also trimmed about half a centimetre around the edge of the White Cardstock, so then I could back the layout with another Bohemian Bliss paper that matches perfectly with the colours I have used.

I finished the layout off with the title, journalling and outlined the border in black pen. I've also added Charms Creations Hearts & a flair to finish off.