Beautiful #GLENELG by Charmane Koch

 Happy Friday Everyone!

Don't know about you guys, but TGIF! It's the last day of term here for SA and it has been an EXTRA EXTRA long dramatic week! Let alone it being everyone drained, tired & totally ready for a well deserved break, we've had the "are we in lockdown, or are we not in lockdown?" What the hell is going on???

Can't imagine the rest of the country it is a totally mental health brain drain! I think we all need to just all have a holiday at home and GET CREATIVE!!!???

The problem is I am always in limbo! And working in Aged Care, it's very unlikely that I will actually go into lockdown being an "Essential Worker" BUT I have been FULLY VACCINATED! Yay! I am one in 1 and half million to be 100% vaccinated! Not preaching, but I have done everything in my power to not spread it! I just want LIFE to get back to as NORMAL AS POSSIBLE - for ALL OF US!

ANYWAY, I may have had a couple of wines {it's Thursday almost Friday ;)} I want to share one of my ALL TIME FAVE stencil from BEE ARTY - Interwoven... I am sure I will be using this many times over as I just love the design of it!

In the sneak above I have used a technique that I shared at the Bee Arty Retreat - using Snow White Colour Paste and then sprinkling Embossing powder over the top and heating with a heat gun - however I have used 3 different Embossing powders... very carefully sprinkling so they don't fully mix together...

The sneak above is my original "practise run" where I have just used one of the Embossing Powders - Just Blue, then after Heat gunning, I have sprayed a bit of Bling Mica Powder and water using a paintbrush.

This was also my Embossing Die Cuts stage... so Embossed circular Die Cuts using Blush Embossing Powder... love this effect so much! Messy but fun!

The background paper I used was the "Confidence" Fearless, Brave & Free - which matched perfectly with my photos...

I used White 350gsm Cardstock to back the photos I used, but coloured with Royalty Mica Powder, soaking up the leftover colour with the Muslin.

The colours I really love! So VIBRANT! Hope you like too & hope I've inspired you to play!

Thanks for popping by!

XO Charm

'This is the beginning of anything you want' by Elisa Ablett

Hi Bee Arty fans,

Elisa here from the design team with my latest design team inspiration for you, a bright and fun layout featuring Tanya Froud's 365 Collection.

To create the background, I mixed a little bit of Citrus Colour Artist Ink along with a bit of Lemon Zing Mica Powder and using a distress tool, make up sponge etc smooth your coloured ink through the A4 Interwoven stencil.  I also made another light paste with the Wisteria Mica Powder and Berry Colour Artist Ink and smoothed it through the same stencil.

I also stamped onto white tissue paper or you could use deli paper instead and using a bit of water around the edges, use small sections and glue them using a simple old glue stick to the background. 

Once they are dry, use a paint brush to add a bit of colour to the stamped images. 

Here are some close ups for the finer details - 

Fussy cut your triangles and bees from the Cut and Colour Sheet from the Kit and colour the triangles using markers or you could use a fine paint brush to colour the triangles with Colour Artist Inks in Citrus and Berry.

Mat your photos in white cardstock and then again in 'Direction' paper and fussy cut your two quotes from the 'Resolutions' paper.

Draw black circles using a fine black marker by tracing around circle templates, move the templates slightly each time you trace around them to create scribbled circles.

Let's take a look at the Bee Arty with Colour Blast products used to create this layout:-

 

 

 

Thanks for stopping by the blog today, make sure you head over to the Bee Arty facebook group to keep up to date with all the news and inspiration!

Hugs x

Elisa