Pursue your passion by Linda Pearson

 

Rustic Blossum Collection by Queenie Y released mid-August -  Bee Arty Kit Club

This kit is due for release 15^th August, 2022.

 

Alphabet A6 stencil

Owl Remember cut out sheet

Rustic owl small tag sheet

Story time word sheet

Gear Up cardstock

Keylock metal die

White Cardstock – Bee Arty  250gsm

Metal cogs pack

Large white No 10 Tag

Archival stamp pad acorn (darkish brown)

Rose Gold foil cardstock

Blending Tool/with foam tip

Black gel pen

Liquid glue

Twine

Paint – Paper Artsy-Caramel  Dina Wakley-Sage

 

  

Mix some sage paint into some caramel, use a dry-brush method to spread the paint over the tag.

 

Distress the edges blending tool with Acorn stamp pad.

Using the Alphabet A6 stencil apply acorn stamp colour though the stencil randomly over the tag.

 

 

Run the Keylock metal cog dies through the machine using rose gold foil cardstock.

Distress the cogs with acorn archival stamp ink.

Fussy cut some flower elements from the Owl Remember cut out sheet.

Outline these elements with black fine gel pen.

 

 

Cut the owl card from the Rustic Owl small tag sheet.

Distress the edges with Acorn archival stamp ink.

Add the owl tag to lower right-hand side of the tag with foam tape.

Arrange all the elements onto the card, layering the die cut shapes, flowers and metal cogs under, over and around the owl tag. Adhere with liquid glue when happy with layout.

Cut the wording from the Story Time word sheet.

Distress the words with Acorn archival stamp ink.

Add foam tape behind and adhere to the tag.

Loop twine trim through the hole.

 

 

Cut the Gear Up cardstock to A4 size or larger than the tag (I subsequently adhered the completed project into my Dina Wakley Denim journal book … I painted the background the same colour as the tag.

 

To prepare the cardstock, distress the edges with scissors or distressing tool.

Then wet the edges with water to further distress the paper.

 

 

Thank you for stopping by and hope you are encouraged to give this collection a go, click on this link to join the kit club Bee Arty Kit Club.

 

Check in again soon …. BYE for now …. from Linda

linda@yourcreativepalette.com.au

Facebook group inspired art journaling

My Faves and Goodbye

It's my very last post for Colourblast (for now at least 😉) so I though I'd share some of my favourites over the time I've been on the team.

Mostly I like them light and bright...

Sometimes extra inky...

A little tone on tone...

New Watercolours...

Back to Bright!

Although neutrals can be beautiful too...

And my latest is always my favourite 😄

This one was quite restrained colourwise for me...

Total opposite of the norm...

But...back to bright again...

This has been an awesome team to be on, I just LOVE the products and will certainly be continuing to use them and I promise to share when I do 💓

Thanks so much to both Paige and Tenisha for having me!

Awesome Kid by Michelle Henderson

Last project I used all warm colours, this time I've gone for cool colours, and teamed the awesome  Colour Artist Inks up with some Cocoa Vanilla Boys Rule to scrap some summer photos😊

First I roughly drew some stars on my page with masking fluid, which I let dry throughly.

Once they were dry, I thinned down some Colour Artist Ink in Oasis, and brushed some on in horizontal stripes. I went over it here and there with a second coat to give some depth.

I added some Marine Colour Artist Ink mainly over the stars, and splattered some around also (my favourite part lol). 

Look how awesome it dries!! 

I then rolled off the masking fluid and spattered some Lime Colour Artist Ink, concentrating mainly around the stars, letting it go on top of the areas that were previously bare.

Once it was all dry, I used the Michelle Grant stencil and a baby wipe to remove some of the colour, which gives a great ghost effect.

I used Marine Artist Ink again to dye some muslin and let that dry. While I was waiting I stamped with some extra stars with Archival ink.

It didn't take long to assemble my paper layers and title, but it needed one more thing, so I embossed some wooden stars and a cog with Deep Water Colour Embossing Powder.

Some stitching around the edge, and I called it done!

Here's the full layout...

Thanks for having a read!

Smile by Ros Aggett-Madley

Hello (big, big wave) from me.  I'm very excited to have joined the Colour Blast team and super excited to share with you my first project.

My page today features Colour Embossing Powder.

That's it, nothing else.

I thought I might share a few different techniques that you may never have tried or maybe just not used for a while.

The title on my layout was done first.  I have laid down a whole heap of  Envy Colour Embossing Powder on the the bottom corner of my page.  Nothing else is needed for this, the melting of the powder will adhere it to your page.

Because there's a whole heap there, not being held by anything, you need to heat the powder until melted by holding your heat tool under your page.  Moving it slowly until all melty and liquid.  Whilst the powder is still hot, press your stamp into the melted powder and hold down firmly for about 30 seconds.

You can't muck this up.  If it's not how you wanted it, reheat and melt it again until all the impression has gone and stamp again.

I used a clear polymer stamp but have seen this technique also done with red rubber.

You may notice that your page buckles a little when the Colour Embossing Powder is set.  I just very lightly warmed the powder from underneath again, being very careful not to melt the impression, and straightened my page out that way.

If you try and smooth it out when it's set, it cracks.

Lesson learnt.

I have place a long piece of chipboard on my layout.  I again used the Envy Embossing Powder.  This time I've stamped my chipboard piece with some embossing ink and then sprinkled over the Colour Embossing Powder.

Once melted with my heat tool, I have repeated this another 2 times.

I love my chipboard pieces to have a really thick, lush look so will normally emboss with 3 layers of powder.

I wanted to use some stamping as another feature on my page.  This was done by stamping some embossing fluid on a piece of vellum, heating and then fussy cutting.

My page is all about the Envy Embossing Powder and I knew that when I put it all together, it would still be lacking a little something.  

Another awesome thing about embossing powder, is the way you can pimp up your embellishments.

I've taken some old pearls out of my stash, stamped over the top of them with an embossing fluid stamp pad and covered in embossing powder. 

This ones a little messy to do but gives you perfect goodies for you layouts.

All done with gorgeous Envy Embossing Powder

Hope you've been inspired.

Crazy Loved - By Fiona Hughes

Happy Friday my crafty friends!!

My post for today is of my beautiful boy, (at 15 months of age), Chad!

 He is just the cutest!.... American Staffy X Sharpei, all brindle and is known within the family home, as "the Brown Menace", for his very naughty antics.

I went with neutrals for this layout, as is my thing.

Heavy gauge Kraft cardstock, I had borrowed a stencil from a lovely friend and wanted to give it a go. I worked texture paste through the stencil, centred on the page (roughly, of course!)

After letting this dry I grabbed 5 gorgeous Color Blast Sprays to make my "watercoloury"-type background.

Colour Shimmer Sprays in - Leather, Sienna, Stormy Weather & Dusty Charcoal. Colour Spray in - Roadbase.

I wet down the page, generously, with water. Then with the chosen  Colour Shimmer Sprays, I sprayed over the stencilled area in random patches, allowing the shimmery puddles to coalesce.

I helped the page to dry, with my heat tool.

After that, I splattered, Roadbase over the page as an accent.

I decided that my page needed more texture. So I choose some background stamps and archival black ink, &  then stamped abstract, partial stamp prints over the stencilled background.

Moving on to the embellishments. I opened my wood veneer storage box and chose my title, arrow and chevron.  To colour these, the Colour Shimmer sprays in - Steel & Bling, and also Colour Spray in - Roadbase. I coated the pieces with several coats of the shimmery goodness, to achieve the desired effect.

I mounted the photo of Chad on scraps of "doggie"-type papers. I kept it  simple so as not to take away from the background.

Finally I added some tangled black cotton and co-ordinating flair button to complete the page.

And that's it for another pretty abstract layout.

I tend to stick to neutral bases but I love how the lovely fine shimmer just adds that special something.

Have a wonderful day everyone.

Until next time,

Cheers

Fi  x