Sunday, 9 April 2023

Beautiful just the way you are - Rikki G

Good morning, how are you? Well if you from Australia no doubt the Easter Bunny has been and gone and left you some chocolatey goodness and hopefully your spending sometime with your nearest and dearest.

Thats the plan today for my fam bam, just chilling and spending the day relaxing maybe a little bit of fussy cutting thrown in there for good measure......

Today I have a layout using the stunning Moon Shadows Collection, and as a added bonus I have a little process video so you can follow along.

You can follow along with a process video:

The Pretty Posy stamp is back in use again, stamped on 200gsm cardstock with archival ink.

This will allow you to flood your work and not have any ink bleed out.

Once your flowers are dry, you can sculpted them into 3d flowers, curl them in your fingers, fold the petals and add some foam tape in the center and add a small one on the top. To give the center some more definition use the bottom side of a paint brush and give it a push, it will allow the petals to curl inwards more.

Now repeat the flooding effect with the Aussie leaves Die.

*** Handy tip: pre cut a heap of leaves in white and pop them into a bag that way your more likely to use them in your layouts more regularly, rather than pulling out your die cut machine every time you create.

Add silk flowers in with your paper flower clusters.

By flicking glue you will get a more splattered effect with your glitter, as you tap the excess off it will catch in other areas.

Hope this has inspired you.

Till next time have a creative day.

Moonburst - 12"x12" Scrapbooking Paper

Pretty Posy Clear Stamp Set

Colour Shimmer Dust - Assorted Colours - Cobolt

Colour Spray

Aussie Leaves - Metal Die

Colour Artist Dye Ink - Oasis

Colour Artist Dye Ink - Citrus

Sunday, 12 March 2023

You Matter To Me - With Rikki G

Hi everyone how are you? Rikki here and I am here to share with you my latest creation using the stunning Bee Arty Grateful Heart collection.

This is still working off my first layout and this time its evolving the layout using some different products and adding a little bit more mixed media into your layout.

So you will need two sheets of Together.

Keep one as your background.

Fussy cut out the main part of the flowers and you can set aside the rest for another layout.

Stamp a number of daisies from Pretty Posy Stamps with some archival inks and set aside. We will be colouring these in a minute.

While you have your stamp supplies out stamp the large magnolias from the Perfect Petals, and the one with the curved flower spray, also use archive ink. You will need to fussy cut all these flowers.

Now onto the colouring..... today I am using Colour Shimmer Dusts - Colbolt and Velvet.

Mix a small amount in a palette and to create a third colour use a bit of both. This will act as a blender.

Mist your daisies with water and start dropping the Shimmers onto them.

While waiting for the flowers to dry..... Add some of your roses with foam mount over the top of the background sheet.

Grab a brush and start adding Colour shimmer- Colbolt to your background, it will sit on the top of the paper for a little bit, but this will give you time to move it around the page and to get it where you need it to go.

Keep adding ink to the background over sections of the dry ink and it will make sections more intense...

Once the background is dry you are now onto the construction, mount your photo up a couple of layers and then add the flowers around the photo starting with your coloured daisies.