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

My Birthday Getaway! by Charmane Koch

 Hey Everyone! Happy Monday! Today I'm sharing with you a layout I created using the Mood Board for March as Inspiration - I decided to get out the gorgeous Grateful Heart Collection... 

I watered down Mica Powders Cool Mint & Royalty to colour the colours & leaves on the Grateful Heart "Together Paper"

I also stamped onto White Cardstock using the Grateful Heart "Heartfelt" Clear Stamp, cut it out and coloured with more Mica Powders Cool Mint & Royalty

I also coloured a DIY Charms Creations Heart with Royalty Mica Powder mixed with water too.

I backed my photo with the Lace Heart from the Grateful Heart "Heart" paper, along with muslin & doily & tissue paper that was the perfect colour match!

And here is the full layout! I really love how it turned out, and hope you are inspired by the Mood Board and maybe using the same collection?

Thanks for popping by!

XO Charm

You & Me by Suzanne Franin

Hey Everyone Suzanne here

This week's Colour Blast project I HAD to use the new stencil I'd gotten Colour Blast Boho Mandala Stencil from the Follow Your Dreams range it's so pretty  

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Look at these two how gorgeous are they 

Mum took them to one of those pop-up shops where they take the pictures in the shopping centres and had a whole heap of photos done and when I saw them I asked if I could do a canvas of one of the photos she said for sure not knowing what I was going to do

It was so hard to pick as there were so many of them together and apart but this was the most fun out of all of them

And lucky for me their mum loved it

 I used the Colour Blast White Heavy Gesso on all the embellishments and the canvas to prime everything so that whatever medium I was going to use on them would adhere with no problem  

I used the Colour Blast Boho Mandala  Stencil from the Follow Your Dreams range with some clear impasto
I'd have to say this is my new favourite stencil it's so pretty

 

With the background, it took a while to work out what colour to go with I was going to do it in Snow White Shimmer Cube but the Lady I made it for said the other colour she liked was purple (she hadn't seen what I was doing with the photo until I was finished)

So I used the Colour Shimmer Cube Royalty 

 I used the Colour Artist Ink Slipper and some water for the flowers as they weren't white and didn't look right 
I also used it on a few of the other embellishments

 I used a Flair from Embellish With Flair it's from the You Make Me Smile Set
I also used some Cocoa Vanilla Studio Happiness Accessory Stickers and Die Cut Ephemera set

 The Heart is from Finnabair and I filled it with some Silver Art Ingredients Glass Glitter and used a Cocoa Vanilla Studio saying sticker from the Happiness collection to put on top same as I did with the saying on the arrow

The chipboard arrow is from a Memory Maze Set Arrow love me and you

Thank you for visiting and I hope you will come back soon x

What a Babe by Michelle Henderson

Hi All - I'm back again, this time with a clean and pretty page - but still using some of my favourite Colour Blast products 😀

Here's a wee peek...

I started off with some white cardstock and my Colour Shimmer Dust in Sunflower, Candy, Passion and Cobalt. I wanted a pastel effect so I only put a little colour out, even then I ended up putting a lot of the Cobalt one back.

The photo on the left shows how much of the Candy I put out, and the one on the right how much I still had left when I finished. So concentrated!!

Using a soft flat brush I painted four large stripes.

For each of the stripes, I wanted a matching Colour Paste to stencil with. I chose Sunshine, Singin the Blues and Punch. I didn't have one to match exactly for the lavender, so I tinted some Rose Petal with a little Royalty which was perfect.

Using a stencil, I applied one colour at a time, waiting for the Colour Paste to air dry between each colour. That way I was able to match up the pattern each time.

It was hard to decide the rest of the design after that because I loved how it looked so much 😆

I chose a black and white photo because of all the colour already on the page. I used so many different collections from my stash to build layers and embellish!

I love how this one turned out, I hope you can take some inspiration from it too 😀

Shine Bright by Michelle Henderson

Today I've gone to the dark side.....dark paper that is😁

I have a bundle of Colour Pastes I used in this one. All the warms, plus purple and gold to weld it all together 😍
In all I used Apple of my Eye, Bling, Fire Engine, Royalty, Sunshine and Tangareen Dream.

I spread some directly on to cardstock with my palette knife and stamped with some script and background stamps while it was still wet. I stamped directly into the paste, then on to the cardstock to stamp the excess off. I only did 2-3 colours at a time and dried them off before moving on to the next colours.

  

Loved how it looked once it was all dry!

Then I used my Gold Shimmer Brush Marker to colour my chipboard,  but I found it wasn't quite gold enough,  so I also used the Colour Shimmer cube in Bling to strengthen it. It was sunny while I was doing it and I kept getting distracted by how beautifully the paint sparkled in the sun.

I also used the same pen to splatter a little around the edges of my background mainly, but also a little on top of the dry pastes.

When I was adding my photo it was hard to know where to put it so as not to cover it too much!

So this is what it ended up like...

And here's a couple of close ups too.

Thanks for checking it out!

"R & V" by Charmane Koch

Happy Monday Everyone! Today I thought I would share with you a monochromatic layout... using Colour Paste Royalty with a touch of silver - using the Silver Colour Shimmer Brush Marker! 

First of all I have scrapped a small amount of the Colour Paste Royalty using a spatula onto White Cardstock. I waited for this to dry naturally.

I have then positioned where I would like my photo to be, then took my heart stencil to see where I would like to place that. 

I decided that one heart wasn't enough - and positioned 3 hearts so that they looked nicely balanced on the page.

I used a generous amount of Colour Paste to create texture to each of the hearts...

While waiting for the hearts to dry, I have coloured some printed tissue paper with the leftover Colour Paste I had on my spatula, scraping thinly over the top of it, so that it dries quickly.

Once dried I tore them into thinner strips and used them like washi-tape strips on my layout...

I also coloured some Wood Veneer arrows to add to my page... although it looks black once first applied it dries into a lovely silver!

Got to love Purple & Silver together! {also gorgeous for a Non-Traditional Christmas Colour Combo!}

And here is the final layout...

Such awesome texture on the hearts!

Thanks for popping by!

Happy Creating!

XO Charmane