Family by Suzy Loudon

Hi everyone. I hope everyone is doing well. 

Today I have a layout to share from my birthday family dinner last year. Some very fond memories, especially as our son left for Europe for nearly a year shortly after.

To begin with I spread Heavy White Gesso around with my palette knife.

I then used Love Colour Spray. 

First dropping it around on the Gesso. 

Then giving it a slight spray with water.

I then grabbed some scrap paper & scrunched it up (I was too lazy to get up & find some plastic), Using this I dabbed the colour around.

I then dried it with my heat gun & added a few more drops of the Love Colour Spray to add pockets of deeper colour.

I added my photos, layering with different heights of cardboard underneath. I then spread Heavy White Gesso through a stencil.

Using the All The Way Stamp Set I embossed around the page with Singin the Blues  Colour Embossing Powder.

Using the White Gesso I painted all my chipboards

I then embossed them with Steel, Singin the Blues, Lovely Lilac, Blush & Envy  Colour Embossing Powders.

I sprayed some cheese cloth with Sapphire Colour Spray & dried it gently with my heat gun.

Again using my Sapphire Colour Spray I sprayed some on my craft mat. I added some water & painted my flower. Adding more water with each flower making the flowers lighter as I went.

I put all my elements together adding some lace, micro beads & art stones.

Here are some close ups.

Thanks for looking.

xxx Suzy

First Santa Photo- Chrissi M

Hello Lovelies! 

I hope you all had a great Christmas, and Santa was good to you.

Today I wanted to do something nice and simple. I've noticed, I rarely use my mists the way they were originally intended lol. I cant even remember the last time I actually just sprayed mist through a stencil. So i wanted to show you that you can use them in a simple way, and get a fantastic background.

I'm scrapping a picture of my niece's first Santa photo. She surprised us all and absolutely loved visiting Santa. We honestly thought she would hate the experience, but she laughed the whole time. So I'm scrapping this for her album, which is an 8.5 x 11. I decided to use 3x4 photo for this layout. I love the size for the smaller layouts.

I've mentioned before, my preferred Christmas colours are red and gold, so for this layout I used the Love colour spray, and Bling Colour Shimmer Spray. Perfect for Christmas.

I used the  Large That Way stencil from the August release. I wanted a staggered sprinkling of stars across my layout, so I made sure to mask off my layout to avoid over spray. I used the Love colour spray for this.

Then for some Gold- Bling Colour Shimmer Spray splats for that perfect touch of gold. Very christmassy. I find it almost impossible to get a picture that shows you just how shimmery this looks, unless you can get some natural light to reflect on them.

And that was it for my background. Nice and simple, but a very striking look. Then it was time to add my photo, a title and some small embellishments. I stayed with the red and gold colour scheme throughout, and kept the embellishing very simple.

A close up of my layers behind my photo, and so you can see just how cute my baby niece is lol.

So I hope you liked my layout, and can see just how easy it is to use mixed media products on a layout.

 hope you had a merry Christmas, and took lots of christmassy pics to scrap. Till next time lovelies

Chrissi xxx

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How you have grown Layout- Chrissi M

Hello Lovelies! Merry Christmas!

Im a big kid at this time of year, I adore Christmas, so I just HAD to make my project a Christmas themed one. And with that in mind, I decided to document my boys from the past 7 years.

Every year, we take a photo under our tree after we have decorated it, and this year I couldn't help notice how grown up the boys look. So I went through my old photos to see how little they were. That's when I had the idea to scrap them all on a layout.

For this layout, I wanted to try using the Snow White Colour Paste as a resist. It worked out really well. I started out by applying my colour paste through a star burst stencil I had. Then used my heat gun to dry it really well.

On my white background, you can't really see the Snow White Colour Paste. It gives a gorgeous shimmer in the light, but its going to show up amazingly in the next step.

Sticking with my traditional Christmas colours, I wanted a vibrant red for my background. So I chose the Love Colour Spray. I didnt want to spray the colour, I wanted more control, so I poured some of the spray into a small palette and used a brush to apply it like a water colour.

And this was my result. As you can see, that Snow White Colour Paste pops right off that Love Colour Spray. I loved how this worked out.

I then needed to add some gold I felt. Good old Bling Colour Shimmer Spray for that. Adding some gorgeous gold splatters to my page, giving it a real Christmasy feel.

My original plan was to have a small strip of photos, with the star burst coming from behind the top and bottom. Only problem was, I had too many photos. I couldn't bring my self not to use them all though, i really wanted to see how they had grown. So i modified my plan and made it work. In the end, I think the composition looks a little like a Christmas tree lol.

After adding my photos and title, I didn't do much else with my layout. I'm not usually one to use multiple photos on a layout, and this is definantly the most I have EVER used. So I felt it was fine not to embellish too much. I added a gold title, to the top and bottom of the layout, which I really like. Then I added a border just to tie it all together. I didn't want to use a black pen, I didn't think that work work, so I grabbed a lead pencil and used that. I also used it to add some journalling. And I called it done. 

I hope you enjoy my Christmasy layout. My next post is the day after Christmas, so until then, have a Merry Christmas Lovelies.

Chrissi xxx

Glitz & Glam by Suzy Loudon

A big Hello to everyone. This week I've gone back to the 1920's after a wonderful party. It was a bit of a challenge to scrap but I hope I've done my photo justice.

To begin with I thought my paper was a bit too busy in the centre so spread White Heavy Gesso randomly with my pallet knife.

I cut myself some lace the gave it a spray with Love Colour Spray. I dried it with my heatgun (be careful not to get too close & melt it). On drying it went a much lighter colour so I kept repeating the process, focusing more on the bottom. I must have done this about 6 or 7 times before I was happy. When I was assembling my page I decided I needed to extend my lace to I did the same process with another section.

I used a chandelier stencil with Steel Colour Paste. 

I coated some chipboard with Steel Colour Embossing Powder.

After heat setting the Steel I used a sponge to dab my embossing dauer to add a very small amount onto my chipboard. I then used Fire Engine Colour Embossing Powder on the small sections. I heat set it then repeated the process using Bling Colour Embossing Powder.

I tried to get a photo picking up the Fire Engine & Bling highlights but didn't quite capture it. You can see it better in close-ups later.

I sprayed some Love Colour Spray on some flowers. A little trick - if you don't want to colour your flower stems cover them in some washie tape before spraying.

I then sprayed a flower in Roadbase Colour Spray...but didn't move my red flower completely out of the way so it got flecks of Roadbase all over it.

I sprayed some more flowers with Steel Shimmer Spray

 I added some feathers & some little embellishments to finish my page.

You can see in this photo the depth of the lace that I reached, as well as some of the colour accents on the Steel chipboard.

Some of the top lighter lace that was covered by the photo I cut off & lifted up. You can see the different shade to the bottom piece.

Thanks for spending the time to enable me to share my page 

See you next time.

XXX Suzy

Flying Baby with Melinda Sweetman

Hello there Colour Blast friends and fans! Melinda Sweetman here with you today sharing my latest make as part of the DT!

I decided to play along with the August challenge this month and instead of using just one product I have used 2 but in a RAINBOW of colours!!

Here again is the August challenge for you

I have used the Colour Spray and a Colour Paste.

Here is the line up of my sprays

Like I said, a RAINBOW! In it's true ROYGBIV form! Yep, I'm using Indigo and Violet but from left to right the colours are:

Love, Sunset, Saffron, Rainforest, Lagoon, Indigo and Violet. 

And just a refresher if you are  not sure, the Colour Sprays are beautifully pigmented flat colour with no shimmer but gorgeous none the less!!

Here is what I did with my Colour Sprays

This is a technique I have been meaning to use for ages but just kept forgetting! I have simply sprayed each colour 2 or 3 times straight onto the bubble wrap - which I cut to roughly 12x12 size - and then put my textured card stock on top and did some reverse stamping! No gesso needed as there was  not a lot of water being added to the page.

This is what my stamping looked like!! I just love it! And so too does my 7 year old who chose the photo's I am scrapping today ;) Needless to say, they HAD to be of him!!

I left that to dry naturally and added a couple of layers of white tissue paper behind my photo. By the time I got that stuck my background was dry and ready for me to do my next layer, which was some stamping in both a light and dark grey ink.

I did a real quick dry off with my heat tool and added another layer. This time I wanted sparkle and not much colour so I grabbed the beautiful Snow White Colour Paste and this fun 7 Dots stencil.

As you can see in the photo the paste goes on white with some shimmer but as it dries it goes clear with SO MUCH shimmer. It is beautiful and I love that you can still see the stamping and the rainbow through the paste.

Time for some coordinating embellishments. 

I chose wood veneer from Cocoa Vanilla Studios and 3 of the Colour Sprays - Love, Lagoon and Indigo and just painted the colour straight onto the veneer. I hurried along the drying process with my heat tool and then my next step was, of course, more shimmery goodness!!

I used my embossing ink dabber and of course the Snow White Colour Embossing Powder. 2 coats just to make sure they were super shimmery ;)

With all of my bits coloured and dried it was time to assemble my page and here is the final design

I felt that the white edge left a little something to be desired so I found this fun rainbow patterned paper in my stash, gutted it, cut down my white and attached my page. I think it really makes the whole page come together - especially with that rainbow stitched border!

Here are a few more close ups! Well, quiet a few close ups actually! Enjoy!

Here you can see all that beautiful shimmer from the Colour Paste!

I tried to keep the embellishments within the background colours and love how the veneer came out!

So, that is my challenge for August done and I love the end result using a technique I have wanted to try for AGES!

There is a process video available, just click the play button below!

You can load up your take on the challenge here in the FB group and I hope I have inspired you to play along for the chance of a Colour Blast voucher!

Until next time, happy scrapping!

Melinda